The Berlin airlift begins.
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Boeing 737-8Z6 BBJ
Boeing 737-8Z6 (Boeing Business Jet 737-800, c/n 35478, HS-MVS of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn), taxiing on apron of Franz Josef Strauss Airport, Munich, October 2018 On 9th April 1967, prototype of Boeing 737 narrow-body […]
AVIATION HISTORY
10 April 1963 – maiden flight of EWR VJ 101
On 10 April 1963, the EWR VJ 101, a German experimental VTOL jet fighter, performed its first flight. At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, the idea of jet-powered VTOL aeroplanes spread around the […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon S
Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon S (c/n GS016, 30+26 of the Luftwaffe) ‘Atlantic Tiger’, Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 74, Luftwaffe – 31st Tactical Air Base, Poznań-Krzesiny, September 2017. The history of this unit of the German Air Force dates […]