Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
The milestone flight at Lockheed Martin’s Greenville, South Carolina facility marks a step toward delivery of the newest and most advanced Fighting Falcon variant to
The ten-aircraft firm order supports the Dhaka-based carrier’s plans to expand into North America, Europe and the Middle East as part of its fleet modernisation
The new package offers shopping, dining and leisure discounts across six Thai cities, with connections via Dubai from Nairobi, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. Emirates
The Africa Center of Manufacturing Excellence brings Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin and Moroccan institutions together to develop and industrialise advanced manufacturing technologies. University Mohammed VI
The three-day conference, themed “Performance Through People,” brings the global aviation community to Istanbul to examine how people, technology and data combine to keep operations
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.
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
1998 – Oslo Airport, Gardermoen replaces Oslo Airport, Fornebu as Oslo’s main airport.
1973 – First flight of the RFB Fanliner D-EJFL
1972 – Entered Service: Grumman F-14A Tomcat, the United States Navy’s first carrier-based variable-geometry wing aircraft, with U. S. Navy Fighter Squadron 124 (VF-124)
1944 – Focke-Wulf Fw 190 V18/U1, Werke Nummer 0040, originally Fw 190A-0, (utilized by Daimler-Benz for engine tests with Hirth exhaust turbine), is rebuilt a second time to Fw 190C standard as Fw 190 V18/U2 with 1,750 hp (1,300 kW) Daimler-Benz DB 603A engine replaced by 1,750 hp (1,300 kW) Jumo 213E. Aircraft, prototype for Ta 152H-1, crashes this date on test flight out of Langenhagen after just a few days in its new configuration.
1943 – First (of two) Northrop XP-56 tailless flying wing fighters, 42-1786,
suffers blown left main tire during ~130 mph (210 km/h) taxi across Muroc Dry Lake, Muroc Air Base, California Aircraft tumbles, goes airborne, throws pilot John Myers clear before crashing inverted, airframe destroyed. Pilot, wearing a polo helmet for protection, suffers only minor injuries.
1934 – Inter-Island Airways makes the first inter-island air mail flight in the Hawaiian Islands under a United States Post Office contract.
1932 – The Indian Air Force is established.
1929 – Two cartoon comedies shown on a Transcontinental Air Transport Ford Trimotor were the first movies shown in an aircraft.
1923 – First British motor glider competition is flown, at Lympne, Kent from the 8th to 13th of October.
1883 – French brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier make the first flight with an airship powered by electricity.
