In about half a year, the Pioneer 10 space probe will reach another milestone in its journey into space – the distance of 21 billion kilometres (13.048 billion miles/ 140.376 Astronomical Units) from Earth. Pioneer […]
On 7 November 1910, an aeroplane designed by Emma Lilian Todd performed a powered hop at the Garden City airfield in New York. Emma Lilian (Lily) Todd was born in Washington, D.C. on 12 June […]
American Champion 8KCAB Super Decathlon (c/n 1057-2007, OK-ACR), exhibited at the Letecký den Cheb 2024 air show, Cheb, August 2024. The 8KCAB Decathlon belongs to the family of popular light utility aeroplanes initially developed by […]
Last week, Boeing announced that it had been awarded two new contracts for CH-47F Block II Chinook helicopters for the United States Army. The Lot 4 and Lot 5 awards are valued at 461 million […]
On 24 October 1919, Frank Nicholas Piasecki, an American engineer and pioneer of rotorcraft aviation, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Piasecki, the son of Polish immigrants, began his engineering career at a young age. During […]
On 17 October 1922, the first aircraft, a Vought VE-7 biplane, was launched from USS Langley, the first aircraft carrier of the US Navy. Although it was neither the first time an aeroplane had taken […]
Last week, Boeing officially announced that the company had been awarded an additional contract to produce eight more MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters for the United States Air Force. The deal, worth more than $173 million, […]
At the end of September 2025, Boeing delivered the second spacecraft in Viasat´s next generation ultra-high-capacity constellation, the ViaSat-3 F2. Coupled with the Boeing 702MP+ platform, the satellite is designed to add more than 1Tbps […]
On Wednesday, 10th September 2025, the Singaporean government officially announced its decision to acquire four Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft (MPA). The announcement followed a meeting held that day at Pentagon between Chan Chun […]
In June 2025, four months ahead of schedule, Boeing and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) successfully completed the MQ-28 Ghost Bat test programme. According to the company, the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) proved its […]
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