Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
The new Cape Verde connection will operate twice weekly, expanding travel options between the two countries and strengthening TAAG’s presence across the Portuguese-speaking world. TAAG
Switzerland’s leading airline has brought its all-new long-haul experience, with private First Class suites and a fully redesigned cabin in every class, to the Johannesburg
The European Space Agency has awarded Airbus a contract to build two further second-generation Galileo navigation satellites, building on an existing order of six. The
The two airports are signing a memorandum of understanding at Air Cargo Forum Miami to attract new freighter operations between Belgium and Brazil, with pharmaceuticals
The company’s SIOP and TACO systems have progressed through NATO interoperability exercises and U.S. Army field testing, combining drone detection with information about authorised airspace
Bell is exhibiting the air medical configuration of its Bell 429 helicopter at the Air Medical Transport Conference in its home city of Fort Worth,
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
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
October 29 2009 – A Força Aérea Brasileira Cessna 208 (C-98/U-27 Caravan 1) FAB-2725 flying from Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre to Tabatinga crash lands in the Ituí River a small tributary of the Rio Javari, Amazonas State. The twin-engined turboprop aircraft of the 7º Esquadrão de Transporte Aéreo from Base Aérea de Manaus was transporting officials from Brazilian Ministry of Health participating in a vaccination programme when the aircraft crashed landed between the Amazonian villages of Aurelius and New River. The aircraft was later found by indigenous villagers of the region discovering 9 survivors and 2 dead crew.
2005 – Ghana International Airlines launched with inaugural flight from Accra to London.
1998 – Launch: Space Shuttle Discovery STS-95 at 2:19:34 pm EST. Mission highlights: SPACEHAB; John Glenn flies again. 1996 – First flight of the PZL SW-4
1963 – The first Canadair CL-41 Tutor jet trainer entered RCAF service.
1959 – First flight of the Antonov An-24 1953 – Flying a North American YF-100 A Super Sabre, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Frank K. “Speedy Pete” Everest sets a world speed record of 1,215.298 kilometers per hour (755.151 miles per hour). 1918 – The Danish airline Det Danske Luftfartselskab, the oldest airline that still exists, is founded. 1917 – Lt. Heinrich Gontermann, known as the Balloon Strafer, receives fatal injuries when the Fokker Dr.I 115/17, of Jasta 15, he is performing aerobatics over his airfield at 1,500 feet in, suffers structural failure as the top wing breaks up, crashes, suffers grievous facial injuries, dies the following day. The Triplane had been delivered to Jasta 15 on 22 October but foul weather kept it grounded until the 28th. Gontermann had scored 21 airplane kills and 18 balloons. 1901 – The Royal Aero Club of Great Britain is established.
