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FOD walk at MacDill AFB
On 6th August 2024, the USAF personnel assigned to the 6th Air Refuelling Wing and the 6th Civil Engineer Squadron, performed a foreign object debris walk at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. The service […]
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Is the development of new Russian VTOL aircraft to be launched soon?
At the beginning of August 2024, ПАО “Яковлев” (PSJC Yakovlev) officially announced the company is ready to launch development of new Russian 5th generation aircraft, featuring the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capability. The information […]
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Austrian skydivers flew through Tower Bridge in London
On 12th May 2024, two skydivers from Austria – Marco Fürst and Marco Waltenspiel – went down in history as the first daredevils to fly with wingsuits through the iconic Tower Bridge on the River […]
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NOAA satellites helped to save 350 people in 2023
The polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are mainly responsible for weather and climate monitoring. However, being a part of global COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system, they additionally contributed to rescuing 350 […]
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NASA X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft officially revealed
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 […]
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Zephatali Walsh becomes the 2023 Airspeeder EXA Series Champion
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 […]
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6th Włocławek Model Festival – amazing world of (not only) aviation miniatures
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’ […]
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MD-90 becomes X-66A – the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing test aircraft
On 17th August 2023, a MD-90 aircraft arrived to one of the Boeing company facilities, located at Palmdale, California. There, the aircraft will undergo extensive modifications to become Transonic Truss-Braced Wing testbed jet, as part […]
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Military airlift units in support of airborne firefighting – the MAFFS aircraft
Wildland fires are recently a common subject of news headlines. They are one of the most feared forces of nature due to being nearly impossible to prevent, difficult to control and causing significant damage. It […]
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Will ´Connie´ fly again?
It was exactly four years ago, when we wrote about the sole airworthy ´Connie´ in Europe – and, at that time, one of only two such aeroplanes in the world that were still able to […]