Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Sikorsky has selected Prague-based Česká letecká servisní as an authorised distribution centre for Black Hawk helicopter parts within the European Union, its first such appointment
Aviator Airport Alliance will provide full ground handling for five Lufthansa Group carriers at Gothenburg-Landvetter from 1 December 2026 to 30 November 2030, covering approximately
ECS Group has appointed Eric St Amand as Chief Operating Officer Americas with immediate effect. A West Point graduate and former US Army logistics officer,
B&H Worldwide has run a twelve week graded assignment with Temasek Polytechnic’s School of Business, in which Communications and Media Management students researched aerospace logistics,
Quito, parent of the air cargo group comprising ECS Group, Global GSA Group, TCE and CargoTech, has been awarded EcoVadis Silver with a score of
Uzbekistan’s My Freighter has expanded its partnership with Baltic Ground Services to cover fuel supply and ground handling at Ostrava, Tallinn and Riga. BGS previously
Boeing forecasts that commercial aviation will need 674,000 new pilots over the next two decades, yet competition for entry-level First Officer positions remains intense. Industry figures interviewed by BAA Training argue the contradiction is not real: the shortage is a
An analysis by Texas Christian University’s Center for Supply Chain Innovation finds that American Airlines’ hub at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport supports around $70 billion in annual economic output and an estimated 350,000 jobs across North Texas, and identifies
Charlie Trimble, who founded Trimble in 1978 and brought the world’s first commercially viable GPS receiver to market six years later, will receive the American Geographical Society’s O.M. Miller Cartographic Medal, in recognition for the commercialisation of a technology that
2025 – A Polish Air Force F-16C Fighting Falcon crashes while practicing for the Radom Air Show, killing the pilot Major Maciej “Slab” Krakowian, and resulting in the cancellation of the show.
2009 – Launch: Space Shuttle Discovery STS-128 at 23:59 EDT. Mission highlights: ISS assembly flight 17A: MPLM Leonardo & 6 person ISS crew.
2008 – Zoom Airlines ceases operations due to financial struggles.
1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: Three of the ten Aermacchi MB-339PAN jets from the Italian Air Force display team Frecce Tricolori collide in mid-air in front of the audience while performing their ‘pierced heart’ formation. One aircraft crashes directly into the crowd. Sixty-seven spectators and all three pilots are killed and 346 seriously injured in the resulting explosion and fire.
1988 – First flight of the Hoffmann H-40
1980 – (28-31) The 3rd FAI World Rally Flying Championship is held in Aschaffenburg, West Germany. Individual winners are 1. Witold Świadek / Andrzej Korzeniowski (Poland), 2. Otto Höfling / Michael Amtmann (West Germany), 3. Luckerbauer / Meszaros (Austria). Team results are 1. Poland, 2. West Germany, 3. Austria.
1972 – Prince William of Gloucester is killed in the crash of a Piper Cherokee Arrow during the Gordonwood Trophy race.
1972 – Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou transport aircraft registration A4-233 carrying three crew and 26 passengers crashed in a remote valley south of the town of Wau in Papua New Guinea. The wreckage of the aircraft was located on 31 August following an extensive search by military and civilian aircraft. Five of the passengers survived the crash but one of them died shortly after being rescued.
1968 – McDonnell Douglas completes the 3,000th F-4 Phantom II.
1962 – While on an intermediate stop during a ferry flight to Moscow for acceptance testing, Kamov Ka-22, 0I-01, rolled to the left and crashed inverted, killing the entire crew.
The cause was found to be the rotor linkage, and further inspection found that two of the other three Ka-22s suffered from the same defect. Subsequently, in order to improve stability and control, a complex differential autopilot was installed. This sensed attitude and angular accelerations, and fed into the control system.
1961 – In Operation Sageburner, a United States Navy McDonnell F4H-1F Phantom II fighter, Bu. No. 145307, flown by Lieutenants Huntington Hardisty and Earl De Esch, set a world speed record, averaging 1,452.777 kilometers per hour (902.714 miles per hour) over a 3-kilometer (1.864-mile) course while flying below 125 feet (38.1 m) at all times.
1958 – First flight of the Beechcraft Queen Air, an American twin-engined light aircraft evolution of the Model 65 with a more modern swept tail and more powerful engines.
1957 – A rocket-boosted English Electric Canberra sets a new world altitude record of 70,308 ft (21,430 m)
1934 – Aug 28-Sept 16 – The fourth International Tourist Aircraft Contest Challenge 1934 in Warsaw, won by the Polish crew of Jerzy Bajan on the RWD-9 plane.
1928 – Famed bush pilot Clennell (Punch) Dickins leaves on his 12-day survey of the eastern Arctic. He covers 6,336 km in 37 hours of flying; he often navigates by the sun.
1923 – United States Army Air Service Lieutenant John Richter and Lowell Smith establish a new endurance record of 37 hours 15 min in an Airco DH.4, covering 3,293 miles (5,299 km). They are refueled fifteen times during the flight.
1919 – The International Air Traffic Association (IATA) is formed at The Hague, Holland.
1910 – Armand Dufaux pilots a Dufaux 4 biplane 66 km (41 mi) from St. Gingolph to Geneva at an altitude of around 150 m (500 ft), taking 56 min and 5 seconds for the crossing of Lake Geneva, the longest flight over “open water” at the time.
1908 – The US Army accepts its first dirigible. It is 96 feet long, with a 20-hp Curtiss engine.
