Bréguet Atlantique 2 – also known as Bréguet Atlantic Nouvelle Génération – (c/n 17, ´17´ of Force maritime de l’aéronautique navale), static display at spotter day during the 100th anniversary of the German naval aviation, […]
On 23rd January 2023, The Blades Aerobatic Display Team officially announced that, by decision of the team’s parent company 2Excell Aviation, 2022 was regrettably the last full season for the group. The Blades team have […]
On 2nd February 2023, the last airworthy Mil Mi-2 helicopter in the Czech Republic (c/n 5110711088, ´0711´ of the CLV Pardubice) performed its final flight at Pardubice airfield. During the event, the already historical rotorcraft […]
On 3rd February 1859, a well-known German aviation engineer and aircraft pioneer, Heinrich Hugo Junkers, was born in Rheydt, a borough of Mönchengladbach city. Hugo was the third of seven children of Heinrich and Louise […]
On 22nd – 23rd November 2022, at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris, France, the ESA Council at Ministerial level took place. At the conclusion of this two-day meeting, ESA Director General Josef Aschenbacher announced […]
Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior (c/n 1252, NC14999), flying display at the 30th edition of Aviation Fair air show, Pardubice, May 2022. The Lockheed Model 12 was developed as a smaller derivative of Model 10, […]
On 18th January 2023, Boeing announced that the company was selected by NASA to lead the development and flight testing of a full-scale Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) demonstrator aircraft. The TTBW airframe concept is the […]
On 27th January 1939, prototype of twin piston-engine fighter aircraft XP-38 performed its maiden flight, by test pilot Benjamin S. Kelsey. The P-38 fighter was created in response to the United States Army Air Corps […]
The United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron ´Thunderbirds´ has just opened its anniversary season with a winter training trip to New Mexico. Between 9th and 20th January, the team´s pilots practiced their show at […]
IAR 99 Șoim (s/n 7505305, ´709´ of the Romanian Air Force), flying display at Bucharest International Air Show 2012, Bucharest, July 2012. In the mid-1970s, Romanian aviation industry began development of a new advanced trainer […]
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