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8 December 1938 – German aircraft carrier ´Graf Zeppelin´ is launched

7th December 2023 Jacek Domański

On 8th December 1938, the only German aircraft carrier ´Graf Zeppelin´ was launched in Kiel.   After the Nazis came to power in Germany, expansion of the Kriegsmarine (the German Navy) became one of the priorities […]

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1 December 1932 – first flight of Heinkel He 70 Blitz

30th November 2023 Jacek Domański

On 1st December 1932, a German mail and passenger aircraft Heinkel He 70, performed its maiden flight. The Heinkel He 70 was one of representatives of the new generation of German aircraft, designed and developed […]

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24 November 1924 – first flight from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies

23rd November 2023 Jacek Domański

On 24th November 1924, Fokker F.VII airliner of the KLM Dutch airline landed in Jakarta, successfully completing the first air bridge between the Netherlands and the Dutch East indies.   The first decade after the Great […]

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10 November 1907 – Henri Farman becomes the first European to stay in the air for more than one minute

9th November 2023 Jacek Domański

On 10th November 1907, French aviation pioneer Henri Farman, flew a distance of 1,030 metres with Voisin-made biplane. The flight lasted 1 minute and 14 seconds, thus Farman became the first European to stay in […]

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3 November 1915 – the first British take-off of an aircraft with conventional landing gear from a ship

2nd November 2023 Jacek Domański

On 3rd November 1915, Flt. Lt. H.F. Towler RNAS, took-off in a Bristol Scout C biplane from the deck of HMS Vindex. It was the first taking-off of a wheeled undercarriage aircraft from a ship […]

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27 October – ATR 72 first flight (1988) and then introduction into operational service (1989)

26th October 2023 Jacek Domański

On 27th October 1988, prototype of ATR 72 regional airliner performed its maiden flight. Exactly one year later, on 27th October 1989, the aircraft began its operational service with Finnair airline. The idea of ATR […]

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20 October 1956 – first flight of UH-1H Iroquois

19th October 2023 Jacek Domański

On 20th October 1956, prototype of Bell Model 204 rotorcraft (also known by its military designation XH-40) performed its maiden flight. Approximately three years later, the helicopter entered operational service with the US Army and […]

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6 October 1888 – Roland Garros is born

5th October 2023 Jacek Domański

On 6th October 1888, Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros, a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot, was born in Saint-Denis, Réunion island. Although the Garros family came from the Metropolitan France, they, since a long […]

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29 September 1927 – death of Georg Wulf

28th September 2023 Jacek Domański

On 29th September 1927, German aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer Georg Wulf died in an aviation accident. Georg Wulf was born in 1895 in Bremen, Germany. At the age of fifteen, he witnessed the first […]

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22 September 1950 – the first non-stop transatlantic flight by a jet aircraft

21st September 2023 Jacek Domański

On 22nd September 1950, an F-84 Thunderjet flown by Col. David Schilling made the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic by a jet aircraft. In 1948, the first ever crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by […]

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