On 21st August 2025, less than six months after concluding its seventh mission, the Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) was again launched into space. Lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the OTV […]
In June of 2025, a high-level Nigerian delegation led by the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Hasan Bala Abubakar, visited the United States as part of the Program Management Review (PMR) related to […]
Bölkow P-166/3 ´Flying Jeep´ experimental rotorcraft, exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2025. The P-166/3 was developed in 1960 by Götz Heidelberg, a German aviation engineer, inventor, and aircraft designer who at that […]
Among Polish interwar aircraft, those designed by Stanisław Rogalski, Stanisław Wigura, and Jerzy Drzewiecki — designated RWD, the name coming from the initials of their surnames — hold a special place in aviation history. Notable […]
Two Polish athletes, Piotr ´Grabo´ Grabowski – FIBA 3×3 World Champion in slam dunks, and Łukasz Czepiela – aerobatic pilot and winner of the 2018 Red Bull Air Race Challenger Cup, teamed up to perform […]
AgustaWestland AW101 Mk 612 (c/n 0265 of Luftforsvaret / the Royal Norwegian Air Force), taking part in a hoisting challenge during the Galileo SAR Meet 2025 at Kbely Air Force Base, Prague, August 2025. The […]
At the beginning of August 2025, Armée de l’Air et de l’Espace (the French Air and Space Force) announced the latest addition to the firefighting fleet at Bordeaux-Mérignac Air Base (base aérienne 106 – BA […]
Last week, Boeing announced that its X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is being prepared for its eighth space mission, OTV-8. The vehicle is scheduled to launch from Florida’s Space Coast no earlier than 21st August […]
As every year, the last weekend of April belonged to the biggest air show event in the West Bohemia region of the Czech Republic – Den ve vzduchu (English: Day in the air). Traditionally held […]
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