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26 January 1950 – C-54D Skymaster disappearance

25 January 2024 Jacek Domański

On 26th January 1950, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster of the United States Air Force took-off from Anchorage, Alaska and headed Great Falls in Montana. After approximately two hours of flight, contact with the aeroplane was […]

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19 January 1919 – Jules Védrines lands on the roof of Galeries Lafayette

18 January 2024 Jacek Domański

On 19th January 1919, French aviation pioneer Jules Védrines landed with his Caudron G.3 aircraft on the roof of Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris. Jules Charles Toussaint Védrines was born in December of 1881 […]

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12 January 1879 – Calbraith Perry Rodgers is born

11 January 2024 Jacek Domański

On 12th January 1879, American aviation pioneer, Calbraith Perry Rodgers, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.   Calbraith Perry Rodgers was born into a well-known family of naval commanders. Among his ancestors were Commodore John Rodgers (born […]

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Forgotten pioneers – German flight endurance records of 1914

26 November 2023 Jacek Domański

During the year 1914, German aviation pioneers set several flight endurance world records, successively increasing the time they spent in the air, without refuelling. Although the last record in that series remained unbroken for more […]

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

23 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

9 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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112 years since the first bomb dropping from an aircraft

1 November 2023 Jacek Domański

In the beginning of November 1911, during the Italo-Turkish War in the Northern Africa, Italian lieutenant Giulio Gavotti dropped four grenades from his Taube aeroplane on Turkish positions at Ain Zara and Tagiura oasis. That […]

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6 October 1888 – Roland Garros is born

5 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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Once was not enough – another visit in the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History

25 September 2023 Jacek Domański

At the beginning of September, we again had the opportunity to visit the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History (Musée royal de l’Armée et d’Histoire militaire / Koninklijk Museum van het Leger […]

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

21 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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