Percival Proctor Mk III (c/n H.536, formerly LZ766 of the Royal Air Force and then G-ALCK), on display with Imperial War Museum Duxford, June 2014. In November of 1935, Vega Gull four-seat touring aircraft performed […]
On 4th February 2024, another milestone is space exploration was achieved. That very day, cosmonaut Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko (Олег Дмитриевич Кононенко), onboard of the International Space Station (ISS) broke the cumulative most-in-space record of 878.480 […]
On 9th February 1897, an Australian aviation pioneer, Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith, was born in Brisbane. In 1928, Kingsford Smith successfully completed the first transpacific flight in aviation history. His over 11,500-kilometre-long trip was […]
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 […]
Sikorsky H-34G.III (c/n 58-1515, formerly PZ+344, QC+404 and 80+59 of of Heeresfliegertruppe / the German Army Air Corps, currently wearing the German naval aviation / Marineflieger livery), static display during Galileo SAR Meet 2023, Nordholz, […]
At the end of January 2024, the German Federal Ministry of Defence (Bundesministerium der Verteidigung) published the 18th issue of armament affairs report – 18. Bericht des Bundesministeriums der Verteidigung zu Rüstungsangelegenheiten. Between several aviation-related […]
Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith was born on 9th February 1897 in Brisbane, Australia. During the Great War, he enlisted the Australian Army where he became a motorcycle dispatch rider and participated in the Gallipoli […]
On 2nd February 1872, Henri Dupuy de Lôme presented to public his muscle-powered dirigible balloon, able to achieve up to 11 kph. Stanislas Charles Henri Dupuy de Lôme was born on 15th October 1816 in […]
In a news release published on 25th January 2024, NASA announced that, after three years, mission of its history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has regrettably come to an end. However, by this time, that first-ever powered […]
Christen Industries A-1 Husky (c/n 1079, HB-KCI), operated as a glider towing aircraft at Flugtage Fricktal-Schupfart 2018, Schupfart, July 2018. In 1972, Frank L. Christensen, the pioneer of modern kit planes for homebuilding, founded Christen […]
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