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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completes its 50th flight

24 April 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

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 […]

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PZL W-3RM Anakonda

21 March 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

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, […]

CIVIL AVIATION

Łukasz Czepiela makes aviation history again!

19 March 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

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, […]

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Alauda Aeronautics unveiled Airspeeder Mk 4

24 February 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

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 […]

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North American P-51D-25NT Mustang

21 February 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

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 […]

AIR SHOW NEWS

The Blades Aerobatic Team to be disbanded

6 February 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

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 […]

SPACE

John McFall – the first parastronaut in the history of human spaceflight

1 February 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

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 […]

SPACE

A great chance for Poland to have its second ever man in space

30 December 2022 Kacper Kolibowski

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 […]

CIVIL AVIATION

Certain era comes to an end – the last Jumbo Jet had rolled off the production line

20 December 2022 Kacper Kolibowski

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 […]

SPACE

Mirosław Hermaszewski – the first and still the only Pole, who flew into space

13 December 2022 Kacper Kolibowski

There was many people, whose names were written with gold letters in the history of human space flights, until this day. Among them, there is one and still the only Polish cosmonaut – General Mirosław […]

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  • Showcase of new capabilities – two MQ-28s teamed with E-7A Wedgetail
    2 July 2025
  • Azerbaijan to acquire up to forty JF-17C Block 3 fighters
    11 June 2025
  • Serbia and Egypt – joint exercise of special forces
    9 June 2025

Air Shows

  • 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
  • 2025 European air show season – news and updates (3)
    2 June 2025

Space

  • More than three years in space – Oleg Kononenko and his spaceflight record
    30 June 2025
  • Bringing new life to F-4 Phantom II – the Starlaunch project
    18 June 2025
  • AsterX 2025 – the fifth edition of the French military space exercise
    26 March 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

  • 4 July 1753 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard is born
    3 July 2025
  • 27 June 1977 – maiden flight of CASA C-101 Aviojet
    26 June 2025
  • 20 June 1914 – Fischamend mid-air collision / Körting disaster
    19 June 2025

Other

  • Blériot replica is officially launched
    5 May 2025
  • Sebastián Álvarez breaks three major world records with single wingsuit flight
    9 April 2025
  • Dario Costa performs world-first flight along the Streif in Kitzbühel
    29 January 2025

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