Between 3rd and 5th March 1942, the naval aviation of the Japanese Imperial Navy performed the long-range bomb raid on Oahu Island, commonly known as the second attack on Pearl Harbor. Officially codenamed Kē-Sakusen (K作戦 […]
On 16th May 1919, three Curtiss NC-4 flying boats of the US Navy left Newfoundland and headed the Azores, in attempt for the first transatlantic flight of the powered, heavier-than-air aircraft. In April of 1913, […]
On 7th September 1920, on their way from Italy to Finland, two crews of the Finnish Air Force made an attempt to fly across the Alps in Savoia S.9 flying boats. Regrettably, they never reached […]
On 10th January 1935, the French six engine, double deck long-range flying boat Latécoère 521, performed its first flight. The Latécoère 521 was one of many seaplanes designed and built by Pierre-Georges Latécoère, the French […]
In the centre of Schleswig harbour, one may come across an intriguing monument – a boulder with a memorial tablet commemorating the last operational flight of Luftwaffe, the air arm of the German armed forces […]
Supermarine Seagull V / Walrus (c/n A2-4, formerly ´A2-4´ of the Royal Australian Navy, then VH-ALB), exhibited at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, London, July 2014. In May of 1921, the new flying […]
On 10th March 1925, the British military reconnaissance flying boat Supermarine Southampton performed its first flight. In the mid-1920s, the British authorities were hopelessly looking for new flying boats for military service. At that time, […]
On 22nd July 1914 (or 23rd July, according to some sources), three Austro-Hungarian type E flying boats performed reconnaissance flight near the Adriatic coast of Montenegro. It was the first operational use of naval aviation […]
On 13th May 1930, Jean Mermoz, French aviation pioneer, opened the south transatlantic postal line, from Saint-Louis in Senegal to Natal, Brazil, flying in Latécoère 28 floatplane. Jean Mermoz was born on 9th December 1901 […]
Kawanishi E11K, a Japanese experimental flying boat performed its first flight. The story of this aircraft began in 1936, when the Imperial Japanese Navy drew up a request for a new small flying boat, intended […]
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