Vyugov A-5 Albatross (c/n: –, ЭВС-017, home-built aircraft), exhibited at the Central Air Force Museum (Центральный музей Военно-воздушных сил РФ) in Monino, July 2017. Vladimir Konstantinovich Vyugov (Владимир Константинович Вьюгов) was born in 1937 in […]
Messerschmitt M17 (c/n 25, D-779), exhibited at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, October 2013. In 1923, Willy Messerschmitt graduated from Technische Hochschule München (currently known as Technische Universität München – the Technical University of Munich) […]
On 24 April 1946, Yakovlev Yak-15 and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9, the two first-generation Soviet jet fighters, made their first flights. In the late 1930s, the development of operational jet engines entered a breakthrough phase. In Germany, […]
On 10 April 1963, the EWR VJ 101, a German experimental VTOL jet fighter, performed its first flight. At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, the idea of jet-powered VTOL aeroplanes spread around the […]
For European aviation enthusiasts, Aviatická pouť (the Aviation Fair) is an air show that needs no introduction. Having been organised for more than thirty years, it has become the largest civil aviation event in the […]
Nakajima Ki-43-II Hayabusa (c/n unknown; a replica built using original parts from an unknown number of wrecks), on display at Парк Победы (Victory Park) WWII memorial in Moscow, July 2017. The Ki-43 fighter aircraft was […]
The Aerotechnik WGM.21 prototype, exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2025. In the 1960s, the German company Aerotechnik Entwicklung und Apparatebau GmbH (Aerotechnik Development and Equipment Manufacturing Ltd.), based in Frankfurt am Main, […]
Knoller C.II (c/n 119.15, formerly in service with Kaiserliche und Königliche Luftfahrtruppen / the Austro-Hungarian Aviation Troops), on display at the National Technical Museum in Prague, April 2025. The outbreak of the Great War led […]
Hunting (Percival) P.66 Pembroke C.54 (c/n 105, formerly “SE+515” and “5408” of the German Naval Aviation / Marineflieger), exhibited at the Aeronauticum aviation museum, Nordholz, June 2019. The history of the Pembroke transport aircraft began […]
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