Georg Wulf, the German aviation pioneer and aircraft designer, was born in 1895 in Bremen. At the age of fifteen, he witnessed the first aviation trials attempted by Henrich and Wilhelm Focke. Although their canard-wing […]
Claire Lee Chennault, an American military aviator and famous fighter pilot, was reportedly born on 6 September 1893 in Commerce, Texas. However, neither his exact date nor place of birth is officially confirmed. Chennault himself […]
From the beginning of the World War II in the Pacific, the Japanese forces tried to scare the American public and create a feeling of being under constant threat. In February 1942, the I-17 submarine […]
Hannes Arch was born on 22 September 1967 in Leoben, Austria. From an early age, he was fascinated by sports, flying and the Alps. He began hang gliding at the age of fifteen and subsequently […]
In 1920, the British Air Ministry issued Specification 5/20 which called for a twin-engine troop-carrier biplane. Two manufacturers responded: Armstrong Whitworth with the Awana and Vickers with the Victoria. Both designs were to be powered […]
On 30 August 1914, only a month after the outbreak of the Great War, a single German Taube aircraft carried out an air raid on the French capital, dropping a few bombs and a bag […]
On 18 August 1805, Sophie Blanchard became the first woman in aviation history to pilot an aircraft solo when she successfully completed a balloon flight from Toulouse, France. Marie Madeleine Sophie Blanchard (née Armandt) was […]
OOn 2 August 1909, the US Army Signal Corps received the first Wright Military Flyer. Officially designated Signal Corps No. 1 and commonly known as Aeroplane No. 1, it became the world’s first military aeroplane. […]
Francis Gary Powers, one of the best-known American pilots of the Cold War era, was born on 17 August 1929, in Jenkins, Kentucky. Interested in aviation from an early age, he graduated with a bachelor’s […]
The Westland Lynx is one of the most successful naval helicopters developed during the Cold War. Designed in the late 1960s as a successor to the Scout and Wasp helicopters, the new rotorcraft performed its […]
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