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More than 800 Cape Town primary school pupils took part in a day of breakfast, rugby and creativity, as Emirates, European Professional Club Rugby and
The purchase is the largest single-aisle order by a lessor to date, raising Avolon’s 737 MAX backlog to more than 240 aircraft as demand grows
The carrier has increased capacity to five weekly flights for the 2026/2027 summer season, following record passenger volumes on the route over the past two
The Embraer Group company has signed memorandums of understanding with Portugal’s Beyond Vision and Spain’s Grupo Oesia, covering unmanned aircraft systems and embedded defence technologies,
The new electronic flight bag app builds on SITA’s existing eWAS platform, pairing weather and operational information with fuel-saving recommendations for airlines that also use
The partnership will see Safran’s turbojet engines power a reusable supersonic aerial target designed for missile defence training, with flight testing scheduled to begin in
By Robin Rabec Cape Winelands Airport is taking shape as one of South Africa’s most ambitious aviation developments. Watch our exclusive video interview with CEO Nick Fergusson as he discusses the project’s progress, commercial strategy and vision for the future.
All nine people aboard the Aurora Aviation-operated jet were killed when it crashed near Greenacres and Palm Springs, Florida, on Sunday. This is a developing story which WAN will continue to cover. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said at
The airline’s South Africa country lead points to digital convenience, personalisation and sustainability as the forces reshaping how people choose to fly. As South Africa observes Transport Month in October, Cathay Pacific said evolving traveller expectations around convenience, personalisation and
2003 – British Airways Concorde G-BOAG became the last Concorde to leave JFK by air. She flew to Seattle Boeing Field and retired to Museum of Flight, Seattle.
1995 – Landing: Space Shuttle Columbia STS-73 at 6:45:21 am EST, KSC Runway 33.
1981 – First flight of the McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II
1979 – A Chinook helicopter of 450 Squadron successfully lifted a Lancaster aircraft from Gederich Ontario to Mount Hope, Ontario.
1959 – A small engine fire forces pilot Scott Crossfield to make an emergency landing on Rosamond Dry Lake, Edwards AFB, California, in North American X-15, 56-6671. Not designed to land with fuel on board, test craft comes down with a heavy load of propellants and breaks its back, grounding this particular X-15 for three months. Footage of this accident is later incorporated in The Outer Limits episode “The Premonition”, first aired 9 January 1965.
1947 – First flight of the Scottish Aviation Pioneer
1938 – 5-7 – Non-stop flight by a pair of Vickers Wellesleys from Egypt to Darwin, Australia.
This sets a new world distance record of 7,158 miles (11,520 km).
1934 – Pioneer Air Service aviator Col. Horace Meek Hickam, (1885–1934), dies when his Curtiss A-12 Shrike, 33-250, of the 60th Service Squadron, strikes an obstruction during night landing practice on the unlighted field at Fort Crockett, Texas, overturns. Hickam Field, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, named for him 21 May 1935.
1921 – Curtiss test pilot Bert Acosta wins the Pulitzer Trophy in a Curtiss CR-2 and establishes a new closed-circuit airspeed record of 284.36 km/h (176.7 mph).
1911 – Calbraith Rodgers completes the first coast-to-coast airplane flight across the USA in the Vin Fiz Flyer – Taking 49 days, with several crashes en route.
1910 – The Willows airship N° 3 City of Cardiff arrives after the first dirigible flight across the English Channel, flying from London 10 hours and 30 min.
1908 – Wilbur Wright receives the Grand Gold Medal of the Aéro Club of France for advances in aviation.
