19th April 2023 marked exactly two years since NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter performed its first flight on Mars. And yet a week before that second anniversary, on 13th April, the pioneering rotorcraft achieved its unprecedented […]
PZL W-3RM Anakonda (c/n 360813, s/n 0831 of the Polish Navy) sea rescue helicopter from the helicopter base of the 44th Naval Air Base in Darłowo – static display at the 31st Tactical Air Base, […]
Polish aviator Łukasz Czepiela is one of those pilots who likes to break aviation records and push beyond the boundaries. It is therefore not surprising he did it again and, on 14th March this year, […]
On 21st February, Alauda Aeronautics officially unveiled its fourth, but first manned, flying race car, the Airspeeder Mk 4. Designed and built in Adelaide, South Australia, the new vehicle is the fastest hydrogen-powered eVTOL (Electric […]
North American P-51D-25NT Mustang (c/n 124-48293, N151W ´Excalibur´) taxiing for take-off to perform flying display during Aerofestival 2015 at Poznań-Ławica airport, Poznań (June 2015). The example of the most iconic US fighter of World War […]
On 23rd January 2023, The Blades Aerobatic Display Team officially announced that, by decision of the team’s parent company 2Excell Aviation, 2022 was regrettably the last full season for the group. The Blades team have […]
On 22nd – 23rd November 2022, at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris, France, the ESA Council at Ministerial level took place. At the conclusion of this two-day meeting, ESA Director General Josef Aschenbacher announced […]
On 23rd November 2022, the European Space Agency – for the first time in thirteen years – selected a group of new candidates for astronauts. Their names were announced at the conclusion of the two-day […]
According to press release issued by the Boeing company on 6th December 2022, the last manufactured aircraft of legendary 747 family had left the manufacturer’s factory in Everett, Washington. The most famous four-engine airliner in […]
There have been many people, whose names were written with golden letters in the history of human space flights, until this day. Among them, there is one and still the only Polish cosmonaut – General […]
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