Sukhoi Su-47 „Berkut“ (technology demonstrator, NATO reporting name: Firkin), exhibited at the XIV International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019, Zhukovsky, August 2019. In the early 1980s, the United States launched the Advanced Tactical Fighter programme, […]
On 26 December 1975, the Tupolev Tu-144, the first supersonic passenger aircraft (also known as the “supersonic transport” – SST), performed its first operational flight, carrying mail cargo from Moscow to Alma-Ata (now Almaty, Kazakhstan). […]
Hunting (Percival) P.66 Pembroke C.54 (c/n 105, formerly “SE+515” and “5408” of the German Naval Aviation / Marineflieger), exhibited at the Aeronauticum aviation museum, Nordholz, June 2019. The history of the Pembroke transport aircraft began […]
Last week, Airbus officially announced that the company had been awarded an order for one hundred military rotorcraft by the Spanish Ministry of Defence. The helicopters will be acquired under four separate contracts signed between […]
On 19 December 1910, Yoshitoshi Tokugawa performed the first flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft in Japan, flying the Farman III aeroplane. Yoshitoshi Tokugawa was born in 1884, as the son of Count Tokugawa Atsumori. […]
Enstrom 280FX Shark (c/n 2143, OK-EFX / currently N136HA), flying display at the 18th Helicopter Show, Hradec Králové, May 2019. In 1943, Rudolph “Rudy” John Enstrom, an American engineer and aviation enthusiast, began work on […]
On 12 December 1937, Japanese bomber aircraft sank the river gunboat USS Panay while she was patrolling on the Yangtze River in China. USS Panay was launched on 10 November 1924. She was built as […]
The Royal Australian Air Force and Boeing recently achieved a significant milestone in the development of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) programme, when the MQ-28 Ghost Bat successfully carried out a force-integrated, autonomous, air-to-air weapon […]
Zlín Z-22 Junák (c/n 82, OO-FRE) light sport aircraft, exhibited at Letecké muzeum Kbely (Kbely Aviation Museum), Prague, September 2025. Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the Zlín aviation plant in Otrokovice […]
At the end of November 2025, Boeing was officially awarded the contract to produce the AH-64E Apache attack helicopter for international customers. The contract, executed under a Foreign Military Sales programme supervised by the US […]
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