Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
The GCAP Electronics Evolution consortium, spanning Italian, Japanese and UK defence electronics firms, has been contracted to further develop the sensing and communications systems for
Announced at the International Space Summit in Paris, the order will replace ageing OneWeb satellites and extend a European satellite-manufacturing programme WAN has been following
NOEMI Aerospace has selected Syensqo as materials partner for its nine-passenger electric seaplane, using carbon fibre prepreg and structural adhesive chosen to make a 21-metre
France’s Aeronautical Maintenance Directorate has placed a follow-on order for four two-drone Capa-X systems for the Navy and Army, after a land and sea evaluation
The Avia Solutions Group-owned Queensland operator argues that manufacturer-backed life-extension programmes, not the calendar, determine whether a regional turboprop fleet remains economically viable. SKYTRANS LINKS
Luis Felipe Oliveira, who led Airports Council International World until 2024, says airports too often judge technology by its sophistication rather than by the passenger
Sandra Diaso, Head of Human Resources at private charter and ACMI operator KlasJet, argues that what keeps professionals in aviation for decades has less to do with cockpits than with how freely people move between departments. WHY AVIATION CAREERS BECOME
The Rand Airport Airshow returned on Sunday 30 August 2026 for the first time since 2023, bringing aerobatic displays, historic aircraft and flying school exhibits back to one of South Africa’s oldest airfields, with Essential Fuels as headline sponsor. FIRST
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
2001 – United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757-200 with 44 people on board, is hijacked after taking off from Newark, New Jersey; passengers struggle with the hijackers, and the aircraft crashes in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all on board.
2001 – American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757-200 with 64 people on board, is hijacked after taking off from Dulles International Airport and is flown into The Pentagon; all on board are killed as well as 125 people in the building and on the ground
2001 – United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767-200 with 65 people on board, is hijacked after taking off from Boston and is flown into the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York City; all on board are killed as well as others on the ground and in the building; the collapse of both towers brings the total death toll from the two crashes to at least 2,759.
2001 – American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767-200ER with 92 people on board, is hijacked after taking off from Boston, and is flown into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City; all on board are killed as well as others on the ground and in the building.
1997 – NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
1996 – First flight of the Boeing Bird of Prey, an American black project aircraft, intended to demonstrate stealth technology.
1994 – Death of Friedrich Schmiedl, Austrian Rocket pioneer.
1991 – Death of Rudolf Kaiser, German glider designer who worked for Alexander Schleicher GmbH & Co.
1983 – First flight of the Agusta A129 Mangusta, an Italian attack helicopter and First attack helicopter to be designed and produced wholly in Western Europe.
1981 – Giovanni Carta (John Carta) becomes the First man to land with a parachute on the top of the World Trade Center. (he sustained a 50$ fee).
1970 – First flight of the Britten-Norman Trislander (more formally designated the BN-2 A Mk III Trislander), a British 18-seat three-engined piston-powered civilian utility aircraft.
1968 – Air New Zealand flies T. H. Williams, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith‘s navigator to Sydney to commemorate the 40th anniversary of their first trans-Tasman flight
1966 – Death of Collett Everman Woolman, one of four founders of Delta Air Lines.
1946 – A Lockheed P2 V-1 Neptune “The Truculent Turtle” sets a new distance record of 11,235 miles (18,082 km), Landing in Columbus, Ohio from Perth, Australia, after a 55 h and 18 min unrefueled flight and with a nine-month-old gray kangaroo, a gift from Australia for the Washington, D. C. zoo.
1946 – First flight of the North American FJ-1 Fury, First operational jet aircraft in the US Navy
1933 – First flight of the Breguet 521, a French long-range military reconnaissance flying boat.
1927 – The only Short Crusader, British racing seaplane, crashed during flying tests.
1926 – First flight of the Vickers Type 123, a British single-seat biplane fighter prototype built as a private venture.
1924 – Canada‘s first regular airmail service begins, with Laurentide Air Services linking Haileybury with Rouyn.
1920 – Edison Mouton flies into Marina Field, San Francisco, to complete the First US transcontinental airmail flight. Having left from New York, it took Mouton and his crew over 75 hours to complete the feat.
1911 – Robert Grant Fowler takes off in a Wright biplane from San Francisco to Jacksonville, Florida, for a west to east coast-to-coast journey. It will take four months to complete the journey.
1910 – Robert Loraine makes the First aeroplane flight across the Irish Sea, from Holyhead to Howth, in his Farman biplane, but fails to reach the Irish coast when his engine cuts out.
1893 – Birth of James Martin CBE DSc CEng FIMechE FRAeS, British engineer who, with Captain Valentine Baker, was the founder of the Martin-Baker aircraft company which is now a leading producer of aircraft ejection seats.
1890 – Birth of Armando de Dominicis, Italian aviation pioneer and WWI pilot.
