PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Aero Ae 270 Ibis
Aero Ae 270 Ibis (c/n 008, OK-ALE), performing a flying display during the Open Doors Day at the 21st Tactical Air Force Base, Čáslav, May 2013. Somewhere in the 1980s, the idea of creating a […]
Year: 2025
SPACE
X-37B is back in space
On 21st August 2025, less than six months after concluding its seventh mission, the Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) was again launched into space. Lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the OTV […]
AVIATION HISTORY
22 August 1922 – first flight of Vickers Victoria
On 22nd August 1922, the prototype of the Vickers Victoria freighter biplane performed its maiden flight at Brooklands, the United Kingdom. In 1920, the British Air Ministry issued Specification 5/20 for a twin-engine troop-carrier biplane. […]
MILITARY AVIATION
Nigerian Air Force – another step towards AH-1Z acquisition
In June of 2025, a high-level Nigerian delegation led by the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Hasan Bala Abubakar, visited the United States as part of the Program Management Review (PMR) related to […]
SHORT AVIATION STORIES
Vickers Victoria
In 1920, the British Air Ministry issued Specification 5/20 which called for a twin-engine troop-carrier biplane. Two manufacturers responded: Armstrong Whitworth with the Awana and Vickers with the Victoria. Both designs were to be powered […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Bölkow P-166/3
Bölkow P-166/3 ´Flying Jeep´ experimental rotorcraft, exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2025. The P-166/3 was developed in 1960 by Götz Heidelberg, a German aviation engineer, inventor, and aircraft designer who at that […]
AVIATION HISTORY
RWD-8 – the most-produced pre-war Polish aircraft
Among Polish interwar aircraft, those designed by Stanisław Rogalski, Stanisław Wigura, and Jerzy Drzewiecki — designated RWD, the name coming from the initials of their surnames — hold a special place in aviation history. Notable […]
AVIATION HISTORY
15 August 1935 – maiden flight of Seversky P-35
On 15th August 1935, the prototype of the SEV-1XP fighter aircraft, later known as the Seversky P-35, performed its first flight at Wilbur Wright Field in Riverside, Ohio. The P-35 is widely considered the first […]
SHORT AVIATION STORIES
Bombs on Paris!
On 30 August 1914, only a month after the outbreak of the Great War, a single German Taube aircraft carried out an air raid on the French capital, dropping a few bombs and a bag […]
OTHER
Slam dunk from the sky – how basketball merged with aviation in Poland
Two Polish athletes, Piotr ´Grabo´ Grabowski – FIBA 3×3 World Champion in slam dunks, and Łukasz Czepiela – aerobatic pilot and winner of the 2018 Red Bull Air Race Challenger Cup, teamed up to perform […]