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Emirates has released a behind-the-scenes account of the Aircrafted Arsenal Crest, a 2.4-metre illuminated sculpture built entirely in-house by Emirates Engineering from upcycled aircraft components
Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State has led a delegation of state executives and Ibom Air management to the pre-delivery inspection of the airline’s
FL Technics LLC has expanded its approved line maintenance capabilities in the United Arab Emirates to include the Airbus A350, Boeing 777, Boeing 787 and
Chapman Freeborn Greater China has been appointed general sales and service agent for Magma Aviation across Greater China under an agreement signed on 25 June
Atlantic Aerodrome, a privately developed general aviation and turboprop facility approximately 40 minutes from Cape Town, will open with a grooved asphalt runway, full LED
SAS has confirmed that operational and practical preparations are complete for its nonstop Copenhagen–Mumbai service, opening on 1 October 2026 with five weekly Airbus A330
Boeing forecasts that commercial aviation will need 674,000 new pilots over the next two decades, yet competition for entry-level First Officer positions remains intense. Industry figures interviewed by BAA Training argue the contradiction is not real: the shortage is a
An analysis by Texas Christian University’s Center for Supply Chain Innovation finds that American Airlines’ hub at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport supports around $70 billion in annual economic output and an estimated 350,000 jobs across North Texas, and identifies
Charlie Trimble, who founded Trimble in 1978 and brought the world’s first commercially viable GPS receiver to market six years later, will receive the American Geographical Society’s O.M. Miller Cartographic Medal, in recognition for the commercialisation of a technology that
2007 – Loch Lomond Seaplanes launches scheduled services from Glasgow Seaplane Terminal to Oban in Scotland.
2002 – First flight of the KAI T-50 Golden Eagle
1992 – First flight of the HAL Dhruv
1986 – First test-flight of a propfan engine, the General Electric GE-36
1978 – Entered Service: British Aerospace Sea Harrier
1977 – The Voyager 2 unmanned interplanetary spacecraft is launched aboard a Titan IIIE/Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral, tasked mainly with photographing Venus, Neptune and Saturn. As of today, Voyager 2 is still monitored and tracked from 15 hrs 26 mins 15 secs of light-travel time from Earth.[2] Flight logs continue at: [3]
1970 – First flight of the Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk
1969 – First flight of the FMA IA 58 Pucará
1963 – First flight of the BAC One-Eleven
1955 – Flying a U. S. Air Force North American F-100 C Super Sabre, Horace A. Haines sets a world speed record of 822.135 mph (1,323.889 km/hr).
1953 – Using aerial refueling, 17 U. S. Air Force F-84G Thunderjets make the longest-ever nonstop flight by jet fighters, flying 4,485 miles (7,218 km) from the United States to the United Kingdom.
1947 – Flying the first Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak, Bu. No. 37970, Commander Turner F. Caldwell, United States Navy, set a new world air speed record of 640.744 mph (1,031.178 km/h) over a 3-kilometer course at Muroc Army Air Field, California. (FAI Record File Number 9864)
1939 – The last rigid airship, the Graf Zeppelin (LZ 130) makes its last flight.
1936 – Prototype Vought XSB2U-1 Vindicator, BuNo 9725, accepted by the U.S. Navy on 2 July 1936, crashes in Virginia.
1935 – Boeing test pilot Les Tower flies the Model 299 nonstop from Seattle to Dayton and establishes an unofficial record of flying 2,100 miles at an average speed of 232 miles.
1923 – Completed: USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)[4]
1919 – The first regularly scheduled passenger service by airship begins with Zeppelin LZ 120 Bodenese’s first flight at Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1910 – The first U. S. Army experiments with firing a rifle from an airplane takes place when United States Army Lieutenant Jacob Earl Fickel conducts firing trials from a Curtiss two-seater biplane piloted by Curtiss himself.
1908 – Robert Gastambide becomes the first passenger carried by a monoplane when he is taken up on the Antoinette II.
1908 – The Wright Flyer built for flight trials before the U. S. Army arrives at Fort Myer, near Washington, D. C., eight days ahead of schedule. Before trials begin, tests to check transportability, another stipulation, start.
1901 – The Wright brothers leave Kitty Hawk, N. C., at the end of their second season of testing gliders and return to Dayton, Ohio.
