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Air shows go online!

7 June 2020 Jacek Domański

As the year advanced, it became clear that anti-coronavirus measures would last with us at least until the end of 2020. The limit of participants for public events is one of them, together with keeping […]

5 June 1969 – Tupolev Tu-144 went supersonic for the first time

5 June 2020 Jacek Domański

A prototype of Tupolev Tu-144 passenger jet went supersonic for the first time, becoming the first passenger jet to break the sound barrier. Tupolev´s jet did this a four months before its only competitor – […]

Lockheed F-104G Starfighter

2 June 2020 Jacek Domański

Lockheed F-104G Starfighter ´FX-94´, serial 683-9164, formerly the Belgian Air Force, now displayed on a pole at Starfighter Rotonde in Peer, Belgium (a roundabout at crossing of N73 and N748). Belgium acquired the first Starfighters […]

29 May 1951 – P-51 over the North Pole

29 May 2020 Kacper Kolibowski

Charles F. Blair Jr. flew a P-51 over the North Pole. Born in Buffalo (NY) in 1909, Blair was one of those pilots for whom flying meant much more than just fast way of travelling. […]

Westland Whirlwind HAR.10

26 May 2020 Jacek Domański

Westland Whirlwind HAR.10 helicopter, formerly the Royal Air Force ´XP339´, currently exhibited in Luftfahrtmuseum Wernigerode, Germany. In 1946, the Westland company bought the licence rights to manufacture the Sikorsky S-51 helicopter, under the name of […]

2020 air show season – cancellations update (5)

24 May 2020 Jacek Domański

Even though it has been only three weeks since the previous edition of air show cancellations list was published, some latest announcement resulted in the need to publish another update. Obviously, most of the events […]

22 May 1991 – last operational flight of German F-104 Starfighter

22 May 2020 Jacek Domański

The last operational flight of F-104 Starfighter in the German Air Force. Lockheed F-104G Starfighter ´98+04´, operated by the Wehrtechnische Dienststelle 61 (Technical and Airworthiness Centre) in Manching, took-off for the last operational flight of […]