Since 2023, French Guiana – an overseas department of France located in the northern part of South America, between Suriname and Brazil – is suffering from extreme drought. In addition, the eighteen-month-long dry season French […]
PZL M18A Dromader (c/n 1Z021-13, OK-TGH), part of the Agroair company fleet, Chrudim airfield, December 2024. Do dromedary camels hibernate in winter? Definitely yes, when it comes to those made of metal and able to […]
We are, obviously, referring to the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity, which, on 18th January 2024, made its final, 72nd flight over the surface of the Red Planet. The flight which marked the end of its Martian […]
SIAI-Marchetti SF-260D (c/n 842, ST-42 of the Belgian Air Component), static display during spotter day 2024 at Kleine-Brogel air base, Kleine-Brogel, September 2024. In the early 1960s, Stelio Frati, an Italian mechanical engineer and aeroplane […]
Bellanca 7GCBC Citabria (c/n 215-70, OK-LOL), taxiing for take-off during the 32nd edition of Aviatická pouť air show, Pardubice, June 2024. The story of Citabria aircraft began in the mid-1940s, when Aeronca Company (contracted from […]
At the end of November 2024, the tech guru and entrepreneur Elon Musk – and probably the future head of the new US Department of Government Efficiency – posted a series of messages on X […]
Mráz M-1C Sokol (c/n 142, OK-CSR from Točná Aviation Museum), exhibited during the open doors afternoon event at Letiště Točná / Točná Airport, Prague, October 2024. On 9th March 1946, the first post-war Czechoslovak aircraft […]
On 30th November 2024, the Croatian Ministry of Defence officially announced the final operational flight of the MiG-21 fighter of the Croatian Air Force and Air Defence (Hrvatsko ratno zrakoplovstvo i protuzračna obrana – CroAF). […]
On Friday, 29th November 2024, the Swiss Eidgenössische Departement für Verteidigung, Bevölkerungsschutz und Sport (the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport – DDPS) officially informed the decision was made to suspend, for an […]
Pilatus PC-9M Hudournik (c/n 639, L9-66 of Zračna komponenta Slovenska vojska / Air component of the Slovenian Armed Forces), static display during the 32nd edition of Aviatická pouť air show, Pardubice, June 2024. On 12th […]
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