Grob G 109B (c/n 6413, G-OSNX of the AeroSPARX display team, formerly OH-740) taxiing at Kleine-Brogel AFB during the Spotter Day 2024, Kleine-Brogel, September 2024. In the late 1970s, the German aviation company Grob Aerospace […]
On 21 October 1947, 78 years ago from today, the Leduc 0.10 experimental aircraft performed its first free-gliding flight. Just over a year later, the aeroplane designed by René Leduc, a French aviation engineer, made […]
On 17 October 1922, the first aircraft, a Vought VE-7 biplane, was launched from USS Langley, the first aircraft carrier of the US Navy. Although it was neither the first time an aeroplane had taken […]
On 25 October 1955, the prototype of the Saab 35 Draken, a Swedish supersonic interceptor, performed its maiden flight. Designed to counter the growing threat posed by high-altitude jet bombers and to meet the demanding […]
On 3 October 2025, the last firefighting aircraft left the pélicandrome located within Bordeaux-Mérignac Air Base (base aérienne 106 – BA 106) of Armée de l’Air et de l’Espace (the French Air and Space Force), […]
Aero A-18C (c/n ?, “Black 5”) racing aircraft, exhibited at Letecké muzeum Kbely (Kbely Aviation Museum), Prague, September 2025. In March 1923, a new biplane fighter developed by the Aero aviation company, designated the A-18, […]
Last week, Boeing officially announced that the company had been awarded an additional contract to produce eight more MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters for the United States Air Force. The deal, worth more than $173 million, […]
On 10th October 1976, the prototype of a small utility aircraft, the Embraer EMB 121 Xingu, performed its first flight. The EMB 121 was one of the aircraft belonging to the Family 12X, a series […]
Today marks the 135th anniversary of the first manned flight in a heavier-than-air aircraft, successfully performed by the French aviation pioneer Clément Ader. Although the flight was uncontrolled and reached a height of only twenty […]
On 7 October 1909, American aviation pioneer Glenn Hammond Curtiss became the first pilot in the United States to receive an aviation certificate issued by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). Born on 21 May 1878 in […]
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