Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
The widebody, seating 331 passengers across three classes, will fly long-haul routes from Amsterdam, including Toronto, as part of the airline’s fleet renewal. KLM Royal
The twice-weekly non-stop service, operated by Airlink’s new Embraer E195-E2, gives Western Cape travellers a direct alternative to connecting through Johannesburg. Airlink operated its inaugural
The companies have optimised Gogo’s Galileo HDX satellite antenna for Insitu’s Integrator uncrewed aircraft, adding ITAR-free high-speed connectivity over Eutelsat’s OneWeb constellation. Gogo Special Missions,
Blackhawk Performance Centres will provide authorised maintenance support for the P2012 series, including the P2012 VIP, under a comprehensive agreement effective immediately. Tecnam has appointed
Deliveries rose 6% year-over-year to mark the company’s best third-quarter performance on record, taking its nine-month total to 175 aircraft. Embraer delivered 66 aircraft in
The Level D device at FSI’s Long Beach Learning Center is the first G600/G700 convertible simulator approved for training in the United States. FlightSafety International
As more-electric aircraft add avionics, sensors and power electronics, engineers are rethinking cooling as a design decision rather than an afterthought, Honeywell says. Every electrical system added to an aircraft increases the heat that must be managed, and Honeywell Aerospace
An Air New Zealand DHC-8 Q300 descended to 1,022 feet above ground approaching Timaru at night in June 2023 before the crew recovered and landed safely; the Transport Accident Investigation Commission’s final report also found shortcomings in the regulator’s own
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
1984 – Launch: Space Shuttle Challenger STS-41-G at 11:03:00 UTC. Mission highlights: Earth Radiation Budget Satellite deployment; First flight of two women in space Ride and Sullivan; First spacewalk by US woman, Kathryn Sullivan; First Canadian in space Marc Garneau.
1980 – Lockheed U-2R, 68-10340, Article 062, last of twelve R-model airframes in initial order, allocated N820X, first flown 26 November 1968, delivered to 100th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing 19 December 1968. To 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing 1976. Crashes in Korea this date, pilot Capt. Cleve Wallace surviving.
1967 – First flight of the Shin Meiwa US-1A
1951 – First flight of the Convair CV-340
1930 – British rigid airship R101, G-FAAW, completed in 1929 as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme. After initial flights and two enlargements to the lifting volume, it crashed this date, in Beauvais, France, during its maiden overseas voyage.
1929 – The Boeing Model 40 B-4 makes its first flight.
It is the first plane in the Model 40 series to use the two-way radio, designed by Thorpe Hiscock, William Boeing’s brother-in-law.
1922 – Lillian Gatlin became the first woman passenger to make a transcontinental flight in a Post Office DH-4, from San Francisco, California to Mineola, New York. The flight made stops in Reno, Nevada; Salt Lake City, Utah; Rock Springs, Wyoming; Cheyenne, Wyoming; North Platte, Nebraska; Omaha, Nebraska; Iowa City, Iowa; Chicago, Illinois; and Cleveland, Ohio, and took a total flying time of 27 hours, 11 min to cover 2,680 miles.
1908 – The Zeppelin-airship LZ IV destroyed by fire at Echterdingen.
1907 – British Army Dirigible No 1, Nulli Secundus, the UK‘s first powered airship, flies from the School of Ballooning, Farnborough, Hampshire, to London in 3 hours 25 min.
1905 – Wilbur Wright makes a flight of 24.2 miles (38.9 km) in Flyer III (right). The flight lasts for almost 39:23 min at Huffman Prairie in Ohio.
1751 – Italian Andrea Grimaldi, exhibits a flying carriage – The machine, which remains untested, has a complex structure and a wingspan of 22 feet.
