At the end of January 1769, the French aviation pioneer, balloonist and inventor of the frameless parachute, André-Jacques Garnerin, was born. The exact date of his birth varies, depending on the source. Although it seems […]
On 23rd January 2025, the Italian aerobatic and stunt pilot Dario Costa pushed the boundaries of aviation once again, when he flew his Zivko Edge 540 aerobatic aeroplane at a top speed of 350 kph, […]
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX (c/n 208B-5252, OK-LOK), static display at Helicopter Show 2019, Hradec Králové, May 2019. In the early 1980s, Pawnee Division of Cessna Aircraft Company introduced into the market its new single-engine […]
The 32nd edition of Aviatická pouť (the Aviation Fair) air show took place during the weekend of 1st and 2nd June 2024. Despite the challenging weather conditions, the biggest civilian aviation event in the Czech […]
On 24th January 1961, a B-52 Stratofortress broke up in mid-air near Goldsboro, North Carolina, dropping two Mark 39 nuclear bombs it carried. On that day in January of 1961, the B-52G Stratofortress 58-0187 of […]
The F-16 Fighting Falcon, one of the most widely used jet fighters in the world, emerged from the Lightweight Fighter (LWF) evaluation programme, launched by the United States Air Force (USAF) in the late 1960s. […]
On Thursday, 16th January 2025, at Dolphin Beach in Cape Town, extreme big-air kitesurfer Lasse Walker performed a world-first stunt by jumping with a kite in the water over a low-flying aircraft with world-wide-known aerobatic […]
Siemetzki ASRO 4 (c/n 1, no registration) experimental rotorcraft, exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2023. The story of amateur-built ASRO rotorcraft begins on 4th September 1930. On that day, Alfons Siemetzki was […]
In February this year, the Finnish Air Force (Ilmavoimat) will, for the first time, participate in the NATO Iceland Air Policing mission. The Finnish deployment will consist of four F/A-18 Hornet fighters and about 50 […]
On 17th January 1847, a Russian scientist, mathematician and engineer, as well as founding father of aerodynamics, was born. Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky (Николай Егорович Жуковский, sometimes transliterated Joukovsky) was born in Orekhovo village, in the […]
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