On 12 December 1937, Japanese bomber aircraft sank the river gunboat USS Panay while she was patrolling on the Yangtze River in China. USS Panay was launched on 10 November 1924. She was built as […]
On 12th November 2024, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) officially announced Air China to become the first customer for the company´s new wide-body airliner, C929. The purchase agreement between Comac and the airline […]
On 6th September 1893, Claire Lee Chennault, an American military aviator and famous fighter pilot, was born in Commerce, Texas. Nevertheless, both date and place Chennault was born are just current (and official) version because […]
On 26th July 1954, two Douglas A-1 Skyraider attack aircraft of the US Navy shot down two Lavochkin La-7 fighters of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) in the aftermath of the first Hainan […]
CAIG Wing Loong I / Chengdu GJ-1 (mock-up aircraft for exhibition purposes), static display at 13th International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS 2017, Zhukovsky, July 2017. The Wing Loong I is a Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance (MALE)-class […]
This year´s edition of Airshow China – one of the largest aviation exhibitions and fairs in the world – is currently ongoing in Zhuhai. Regrettably, due to covid-related restrictions that are still in place, official […]
On 4th September 2021, this year´s edition of International Air Crew Training Competition ´Aviadarts-2021´ was officially concluded. For two weeks, aviation crews from the Russian Federation, Belarus and China were completing assignments of the contest, […]
The final, international phase of this year´s International Air Crew Training Competition ´Aviadarts-2021´ was officially opened yesterday, on 22nd August 2021. As usual, the live-fly part of the contest is held at Dubrovichi training ground, […]
A joint Russian-Chinese operational and strategic exercise Sibu/Interaction 2021 (Russian: Сибу/Взаимодействие–2021, Chinese: 西部·联合-2021) was successfully concluded last week in China. That training was considered to be another milestone of the military cooperation between those countries, […]
Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant (a part of the Russian Helicopters holding company) recently announced the delivery of modernized Mi-171 helicopter with VK-2500-03 engines to a Chinese civil aviation company. In 2019, the Civil Aviation Administration of […]
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