Winter is here. And, as usual, brings usual season characteristics such as snow, low temperatures and ice. They may cause problems in many sectors, but aviation is the one to be particularly sensitive to winter […]
On 7th January 1785, Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries performed the very first successful balloon flight across the English Channel (La Manche), covering the route from Dover Castle to Guînes (Guisines), Pas-de-Calais. (full story here) […]
Coincidentally, on the sixth day of January (in various years), several flying aces of the First World War were born. They came from different countries and served on different fronts, but they shared the same […]
Let L-200D Morava (c/n 171206, OK-NXX), flying display during an open doors event in Aeroklub Jaroměř, May 2015. In 1955, aviation plant in Kunovice, then known as Strojírny první pětiletky (Machine Works of the First […]
On 7th December 2022, the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) received its first Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft (MPA). The official solemn ceremony was held at the Museum of Flight, in Seattle, USA. […]
On 23rd November 2022, the European Space Agency – for the first time in thirteen years – selected a group of new candidates for astronauts. Their names were announced at the conclusion of the two-day […]
On 23rd December 1974, prototype of Rockwell B-1 Lancer supersonic strategic bomber performed its maiden flight. For the first time, the idea of a large, supersonic strategic bomber emerged in the middle of 1950s and […]
On 20th December, F-22 Raptor 5th generation fighters of the United States Air Force arrived to Kunsan air base, Republic of Korea, where they will participate in exercise Iron Shadow. The Raptors are assigned to […]
Wagner DOWA 81, home-made aircraft, exhibited at Deutsches Museum / Flugwerft Schleissheim, Munich, October 2019. Between 1945 and 1989, approximately four million East Germans moved to the West Germany. Majority of them, 3.45 million people, […]
According to press release issued by the Boeing company on 6th December 2022, the last manufactured aircraft of legendary 747 family had left the manufacturer’s factory in Everett, Washington. The most famous four-engine airliner in […]
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