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The delivery makes Uzbekistan the first C-390 Millennium operator in Central Asia, part of a contract signed at the end of 2024 that also covers
A powerful weekend storm has forced significant cancellations at Boston Logan and constrained fuel deliveries into the airport, with further disruption expected into Monday Delta
Named Servant One and secured through a 10-year lease with AeroSpring Leasing, the twin-engine aircraft gives the humanitarian nonprofit its own dedicated capacity for the
Two unrelated Federal Register notices published this week: one is an environmental clearance for a new orbital rocket at Cape Canaveral, the other ends a
A new white paper argues that security screening alone cannot catch the lithium batteries, e-cigarettes and other hazardous items entering the air cargo supply chain
Shareholders overwhelmingly backed the deal, first announced in June, clearing a key hurdle toward what the companies call a vertically integrated space powerhouse. Iridium Communications
Cargo and aircraft movements also reached record levels last year, but ACI’s 2026 Annual World Airport Traffic Report finds growth cooling sharply this year amid geopolitical and economic headwinds. Airports Council International (ACI) World says global airports carried a record
The proposed directive would require inspections on 95 US-registered aircraft after Boeing reported some elevator control bearings may have been installed incorrectly, or without sealant, during production. The FAA has proposed a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing 737-8,
The Johannesburg-based University of the Witwatersrand and the Institut Superieur de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace will align their engineering curricula and run a reciprocal faculty exchange, backed by Airbus Southern Africa. AIRBUS, WITS UNIVERSITY AND ISAE-SUPAERO SIGN AGREEMENT TO BOOST
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2007 – First flight of the Kawasaki P-1
1988 – First flight of the Ilyushin Il-96
1981 – During a Navair weapons release test over the Chesapeake Bay, a McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18A-3-MC Hornet, BuNo 160782, c/n 8, out of NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, drops a vertical ejector bomb rack with an inert Mk. 82 bomb from the port wing, which shears off the outer starboard wing of Douglas TA-4J Skyhawk camera chase plane, BuNo 156896, c/n 13989, which catches fire as it begins an uncontrolled spin. Two crew successfully eject before the Skyhawk impacts in the bay, the whole sequence caught on film from a second chase aircraft. Video of this accident is widely available on the web.
1980 – Jaromir Wagner was the first to fly the Atlantic standing on wing.
1954 – Fourth of 13 North American X-10s, GM-19310, c/n 4, on Navaho X-10 flight number 10, a structural test flight, successfully makes extreme manoeuvres at Mach 1.84. However automated landing system attempts to make landing flare 6 m below the runway level at Edwards AFB, California. Vehicle impacts at high speed and is destroyed. However the flight sets a speed record for a turbojet-powered aircraft.
1952 – Nos. 416, 421 and 430 Squadrons flew in stages from Canada to their new base at Grostenquin, Germany, where they formed No. 2 Fighter Wing.
1952 – First flight of the Dassault Mystère IV 1934 – Lufthansa, Germany’s national airline flies its millionth customer.
1933 – Lemoine sets a new altitude record of 13,661 m (44,820 ft) in a Potez 50
1927 – Lt Dick Bently of the South African Air Force arrives in South Africa after having made the first solo flight there from England. He left London on September 1.
1923 – Schneider Trophy race flown at Cowes, UK. Won by David Rittenhouse (USA) in a Curtiss CR.3 at 285.5 km/h (177.4 mph).
1921 – Piloting the same United States Army Air Service Packard-Le Peré LUSAC-11 fighter that set a world altitude record on February 27,
1920, Lieutenant John A. Macready sets a new world altitude record of 10,518 m (34,508 feet). Macready receives the Mackay Trophy for the flight.
1920 – American pilot Howard Rinehart, flying a Dayton-Wright R. B Racer, becomes the first person to fly an airplane fitted with retractable landing gear.
