On 23 January 1909, at Issy-les-Moulineaux, the first example of the Blériot XI monoplane successfully performed its maiden flight. The aircraft travelled approximately 200 metres and reached a speed of 75 km/h. Louis Charles Joseph […]
On 9 January 1793, Jean-Pierre Blanchard performed the first balloon flight in the Americas, taking off from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and landing in Deptford Township, New Jersey. Jean-Pierre Blanchard, a French inventor, aviation pioneer, and the […]
On 30 December 2025, Saab announced that it had signed a contract with Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA — the French General Directorate of Armaments) for the purchase of two GlobalEye Airborne Early Warning and […]
On 2 January 1880, Louis Charles Breguet, a French aviation pioneer and aircraft designer, was born in Paris. Louis Breguet the grandson of Louis Clément François Breguet and the great-great-grandson of Abraham-Louis Breguet, two renowned […]
On 19 December 1910, Yoshitoshi Tokugawa performed the first flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft in Japan, flying the Farman III aeroplane. Yoshitoshi Tokugawa was born in 1884, as the son of Count Tokugawa Atsumori. […]
On 21 November 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes made the world´s first untethered flight in a Montgolfier hot air balloon. The aerostat reached an altitude of 3,000 feet and remained airborne […]
On 21 October 1947, 78 years ago from today, the Leduc 0.10 experimental aircraft performed its first free-gliding flight. Just over a year later, the aeroplane designed by René Leduc, a French aviation engineer, made […]
On 3 October 2025, the last firefighting aircraft left the pélicandrome located within Bordeaux-Mérignac Air Base (base aérienne 106 – BA 106) of Armée de l’Air et de l’Espace (the French Air and Space Force), […]
On 10th October 1976, the prototype of a small utility aircraft, the Embraer EMB 121 Xingu, performed its first flight. The EMB 121 was one of the aircraft belonging to the Family 12X, a series […]
Today marks the 135th anniversary of the first manned flight in a heavier-than-air aircraft, successfully performed by the French aviation pioneer Clément Ader. Although the flight was uncontrolled and reached a height of only twenty […]
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