At the moment we publish this article, the Voyager 1 space probe is approaching another milestone in space exploration – the distance of 25 billion kilometres (15.534 billion miles / 167.115 Astronomical Units) from Earth. […]
Jean-Pierre Blanchard, a French inventor, aviation pioneer and the world’s first professional balloon pilot, was born on 4 July 1753, in Les Andelys, France. From an early age, Blanchard displayed remarkable mechanical talent and a […]
Jacob Christian Hansen-Ellehammer was born in 1871, in Bakkebølle, Denmark. He trained as a watchmaker, then served with the Royal Danish Navy before moving to Copenhagen, where he worked as a mechanic. In 1898, he […]
Stanisław Skarżyński was one of the most remarkable aviation pioneers of the interwar period, best known for his record-breaking solo flight across the Atlantic in 1933. Although he had already gained recognition through long-distance flights […]
The idea of crossing the Atlantic by air dates back to the era of ballooning. In the late 1850s, John Wise attempted to build a balloon capable of such a journey, but his project ended […]
On 28th March 1910, an experimental floatplane developed by Henri Fabre, performed its first flight marking the aviation history with the first successful take-off of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft from water. The first floatplane in […]
Traian Vuia was a Romanian inventor and aviation pioneer. In 1903, he developed the “aeroplane-car”, a flying machine concept that he presented to the French Academy of Sciences. Vuia was born on 17 August 1872 […]
In the beginning of November 1911, during the Italo-Turkish War in the Northern Africa, Italian lieutenant Giulio Gavotti dropped four grenades from his Taube aeroplane on Turkish positions at Ain Zara and Tagiura oasis. That […]
227 years ago, on 22nd October 1797, the French aviation pioneer, André-Jacques Garnerin, performed the first successful parachute descent, using the frameless parachute he invented. André-Jacques Garnerin was born on 30th January 1769, in Paris. […]
On 24th September 2024, Sebastián Álvarez, skydiver and wingsuit flyer from Chile, has made aviation history by becoming the first person in the world to make a parachute BASE jump concluded with surfing the world’s […]
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