Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
The airline body says governments should strengthen the carbon-offsetting scheme rather than let the EU’s emissions trading system expand into overlapping regional carbon pricing. The
The U.S. carrier has carried more than 650,000 passengers and 8,400 tonnes of cargo on the route since becoming the first American airline to fly
The twice-daily Embraer E190 service, Airlink’s first scheduled route to Lanseria, begins 4 December and will increase to four daily return flights from March 2027.
The multirole order, financed through the European Commission’s SAFE instrument, will begin replacing Romania’s Puma fleet and deepens Airbus Helicopters’ partnership with local manufacturer IAR.
The hybrid-electric aircraft developer will share operating-cost and specification data with the regional lessor as the Hub examines the commercial realities facing new low-emissions aircraft.
South Korea’s Air Force has taken delivery of its first production KF-21 Boramae, with the fighter’s domestically developed systems now seen as its strongest selling
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
2008 – Qantas Flight 72 an Airbus A330-300 makes an emergency landing in Exmouth, Australia following a rapid descent that leaves over 70 people injured, 14 of them seriously.
2002 – Launch: Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-112 at 19:45:51 UTC. Mission highlights: ISS assembly flight 9A: S1 truss.
1996 – First flight of the Boeing 777-200ER
1995 – First flight of the Mitsubishi F-2
1995 – First flight of the Learjet 45
1989 – First flight of the Enstrom 480
1963 – First flight of the Learjet 23 prototype, the very first Learjet built.
1934 – First flight of the First prototype Tupolev ANT-40RT which becomes Tupolev SB
1932 – First flight of the Stipa-Caproni, a prototype aircraft employing Luigi Stipa’s “intubed propeller” concept, a forerunner of jet propulsion.
1926 – The Boeing FB-5 (production version) makes its first flight.
1909 – Glenn Curtiss becomes the first American to hold an FAI airplane certificate.
1908 – Edith Ogilby Berg became the first American woman airplane passenger when she flew with Wilbur Wright.
1903 – Samuel Pierpont Langley conducts the first tests of his full-sized man-carrying version of his earlier model aerodromes. The pilot, Charles Manly, nearly drowns when the machine slides off its launch apparatus atop a houseboat and falls into the Potomac River.
1849 – Frenchman Francisque Arban flies over the Alps in a free balloon (Marseille-Subini near Turin).
