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Historic journey of Ingenuity, NASA Mars Helicopter has come to end

31 January 2024 Kacper Kolibowski

In a news release published on 25th January 2024, NASA announced that, after three years, mission of its history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has regrettably come to an end. However, by this time, that first-ever powered […]

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NASA X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft officially revealed

15 January 2024 Kacper Kolibowski

On Friday, 12th January 2024, NASA and Lockheed Martin conducted official ceremony to present the X-59 quiet supersonic aeroplane to general public. The aircraft was created within the NASA Quesst Mission research programme and is […]

SPACE

Seventh mission of Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle

8 January 2024 Kacper Kolibowski

On 29th December 2023, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launched the Boeing X-37B reusable unmanned spaceplane with its seventh mission. Designated USSF-52, the flight is realized within National Security Space Launch programme of the United States […]

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Zephatali Walsh becomes the 2023 Airspeeder EXA Series Champion

20 December 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

After double win in the first and second eVTOL EXA Circuit Races in 2022, Zephatali Walsh won the Airspeeder race held earlier this month at Stonefield Airfield in South Australia. That victory emerged him as […]

OTHER

6th Włocławek Model Festival – amazing world of (not only) aviation miniatures

27 November 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

On 22nd and 23rd October 2023, in the Cultural Centre ‘Browar B’ (Centrum Kultury ‘Browar B’) in Włocławek, the 6th Włocławek Model Festival took place. The event was organised by the Włocławek Modeling Club ‘Iskra’ […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Danish Vipers and the RDAF Solo Display

24 October 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

The F-16 Fighting Falcon, commonly also known as Viper, have already appeared in several reports and articles published on our pages. Nevertheless, that aircraft holds a special place in aviation history, and we are far […]

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Leonardo/Alenia Aermacchi M346 Master

19 September 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

Leonardo/Alenia Aermacchi M346 Master (c/n 6962/001, CPX615, the 001 prototype of the aircraft) taxiing for flying display during International Air Show 2011, Radom, August 2011. The history of the M346, being the Europe’s most advanced […]

SPACE

Poland is another step closer for sending its second man to space

12 September 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

At the end of 2022, we shared on our website the great news that Poland stood the chance to have its second spaceman in history. It all started in November that year, when Sławosz Uznański […]

MILITARY AVIATION

JetZero Inc. selected for further development of blended wing body aircraft

29 August 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

On 16th August 2023, the United States Air Force announced on its website that JetZero Inc. has been selected by the Department of the Air Force for the next phase of a blended wing body […]

AIR SHOW REPORTS

A nice day among rotorcraft – World Helicopter Rally 2023 in Płock

23 August 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

On 12th August 2023 – less than a year after Aeroplane, Helicopter and Autogyro Rally – Stowarzyszenie Aeroklub Ziemi Mazowieckiej (Mazovia Land Aeroclub Association) hosted another interesting aviation event organized at their airfield in Płock, […]

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Military Aviation

  • A farewell to another Cold War icon – the uncertain future of the Dragon Lady
    28 July 2025
  • Time for changes – USAF is getting ready for the A-10 retirement
    14 July 2025
  • FANC to rescue Rushour crew
    9 July 2025

Air Shows

  • A breathtaking start to the air show season – Den ve vzduchu 2025
    30 July 2025
  • A perfect foretaste of the main event – 11th Sanicole Sunset Airshow
    25 June 2025
  • Marked by jubilees – the 44th International Sanicole Airshow
    4 June 2025

Space

  • Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle set for its eighth mission
    4 August 2025
  • Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski – the second Pole in space and the first aboard the ISS
    21 July 2025
  • 25 billion kilometres from Earth and counting – Voyager 1
    16 July 2025

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Civil Aviation

  • Forty new Airbus A220 aeroplanes for LOT Polish Airlines
    23 June 2025
  • Global airliner fleet to reach 50,000 aircraft by 2044
    16 June 2025
  • Global air cargo traffic to double by 2043 – Boeing forecast says
    20 November 2024

Aviation History

  • 8 August 1934 – the first transatlantic flight from mainland Canada
    7 August 2025
  • 1 August 1977 – death of Francis Gary Powers
    31 July 2025
  • 25 July 1909 – Louis Blériot performs the first successful flight across the English Channel
    24 July 2025

Other

  • Charlie 33 at the Bordeaux pélicandrome
    6 August 2025
  • Blériot replica is officially launched
    5 May 2025
  • Sebastián Álvarez breaks three major world records with single wingsuit flight
    9 April 2025

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