Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has introduced LAR Verify, a new digital portal designed to enhance the welfare and safe transport of live animals
Savannah, Ga., April 16, 2025 — Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE:GD), today announced the all-new Gulfstream G800, the world’s
L3Harris Technologies has officially completed a $125 million expansion of its Fort Wayne, Indiana, space manufacturing facility, reinforcing its commitment to delivering cutting-edge defensce technology for the United States. The development will play a pivotal role in the creation of a “Golden Dome” – an ambitious
Safran made a strong impression at the 2025 Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX), held from April 8 to 10 in Hamburg, Germany. A key player in the aircraft interiors industry, Safran stood out among 460 exhibitors with its wide-ranging, cutting-edge offerings designed to elevate the in-flight experience.
WAUKESHA, WI – [April 15,2025] – Dedicated Computing, a leading provider of embedded computing systems for simulation, training, and mission-critical applications, today announced a strategic partnership with Vrgineers, an innovator in professional virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR) technologies for pilot training. The companies will jointly develop
Dublin: 15 April 2025: MAAS Aviation, globally recognised aircraft painting and exterior coating specialist, is proud to have achieved a B score for environmental management from CDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project. This positions MAAS as a pioneer in the aircraft painting sector, both in terms of
Fifty-five years ago, Embraer set out with a bold vision—that the sky would never be the limit. Driven by passion and purpose, the company has grown into one of the world’s leading aerospace manufacturers. From transforming dreams into reality to tackling the toughest challenges head-on, Embraer’s journey has been defined by innovation, performance, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. Their passion continues to shape new perspectives and deliver world-class solutions to customers and partners around the globe. We are moved by challenges. We are Embraer. Watch the anniversary video and celebrate this milestone with them.
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2012 – Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, accompanied by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) T-38 Talon chase plane, carries the retired Space Shuttle Discovery from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, to Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, where Discovery is slated to replace the Space Shuttle Enterprise on display at the Smithsonian Institution‘s nearby Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a part of the National Air and Space Museum. The delivery flight includes low-level passes over the Cape Canaveral area as well as flybys at an altitude of 1,500 feet (457 meters) over Washington, D.C.-area landmarks.[1][2]
2009 – TAROM ATR 42-500 YR-ATA suffers a birdstrike on approach to Iasi International Airport, Romania, resulting in a large hole in the nosecone. A safe landing is subsequently made.
1998 – Launch: Space Shuttle Columbia STS-90 at 2:19 pm EDT. Mission highlights: Spacelab mission.
1997 – A Delta II 7925 rocket carrying the first GPS Block IIR satellite, GPS IIR-1, exploded only 13 seconds after liftoff, raining flaming debris all over Launch Complex 17 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
1996 – A Grumman F-14B Tomcat converted from Grumman F-14A-120-GR Tomcat, BuNo 161444, ‘AD 201’, of VF-101, based at NAS Oceana, Virginia Beach, Virginia, crashes near Norfolk, Virginia, the fourth accident for the type this year. The two crew survive.
1986 – Hindawi affair: Israeli security guards at London Heathrow Airport discover explosives in the luggage of an Irish woman attempting to board an El Al airliner. Her Jordanian fiancé, Nezar Hindawi, is arrested for planting the bomb without her knowledge in an effort to destroy the airliner.
1985 – CP Air began first Boeing 737 Series A 300 service when C-FCPG flew from Vancouver to Winnipeg and Toronto.
1982 – Death of William Price (aviator), British WWI flying ace.
1974 – Death of Wilhelm Thöne, German WWI flying ace.
1973 – First flight of the PZL-106 Kruk
1973 – Federal Express delivers its first package.
1970 – The crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft and its three astronauts returns to earth safely after suffering an explosion en route to the moon.
1970 – A Sikorsky CH-53D helicopter flies between London and Paris to demonstrate that modern helicopters can provide reliable inter-city services.
1969 – First powered flight of the Martin Marietta X-24A
1969 – Soyuz 4 returns on earth.
1966 – First flight of the Chengdu J-7, People’s Republic of China-built version of the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21.
1966 – First total transition flight of the Canadair CL-84 “Dynavert”, Canadian V/STOL turbine tilt-wing monoplane prototype.
1964 – Jerrie Mock arrives in Columbus, Ohio in a Cessna 180, completing a solo round-the-world flight and becoming the first woman to make such a journey.
1963 – Joseph A. Walker flies the North American X15 A to a height of 82,600 m (271,000 feet) and, having flown higher than 50 miles, he qualifies for astronaut wings.
1958 – First flight of the LIPNUR Belalang
1957 – First flight of the Nord 3202
1949 – Avro Tudor Mark IVB ‘Star Ariel’ passenger aircraft (British piston-engined airliner based on the four-engine Lincoln bomber) owned and operated by British South American Airways (BSAA) disappeared without trace over the Atlantic Ocean while on a flight between Bermuda and Kingston, Jamaica, part of the Bermuda Triangle legend.
1944 – Howard Hughes sets a new US transcontinental speed record, flying a Lockheed Constellation
1942 – 12 Lancaster bombers – six each from No. 44 (Rhodesia) Sqron and No. 97 Sqron – carry out the longest low-level penetration thus far in World War II and the first daylight raid by the Lancaster in an attack on a submarine diesel engine factory at Augsburg, Germany. The two sqrons fail to rendezvous and four of the No. 44 Sqron bombers, led by South African Air Force Sqron Leader John Dering Nettleton, are shot down by German fighters shortly after crossing the North Sea, but Nettleton pushes on with the two surviving Lancasters and attacks the target against heavy antiaircraft artillery fire. He is awarded the Victoria Cross for the mission. No. 97 Squadron loses one Lancaster.
1942 – Sixteen North American B-25 Mitchells, led by Col. Jimmy Doolittle, leave for the pivotal raid on Japan.
1934 – First flight of the de Havilland Dragon Rapide
1934 – First flight of the Fairey Swordfish
1931 – The second of two Westland Westbury twin-engine test bed fighter prototypes, J7766, retrofitted with Bristol Jupiter VIII engines with reduction gearing, suffers engine-start accident at Martlesham Heath this date. With Hucks starter turning over engine, with the throttle accidentally wide open, the aircraft suddenly jumps the chocks and collides with the Hucks vehicle, being damaged beyond economical repair :struck off charge.
1913 – Briton Gustav Hamel lands after a non-stop flight of 4 hours and 18 min from Dover, England, to Cologne, Germany in a Blériot XI.
1902 – Gustave Whitehead reportedly flies his Whitehead Aeroplane No. 22 flying boat on an 11 km (7 mile) flight and lands safely.
1899 – Birth of Nevil Shute, popular British novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer.
1892 – Birth of Thomas Mottershead VC, DCM, British WWI pilot.
1892 – Birth of Amedeo Mecozzi, Italian WWI flying ace, WWII general of the Italian Regia Aeronautica and a military theorist credited as the founding father of the “Attack air force” doctrine
1891 – Birth of Hans Klein, German WWI fighter ace, and WWII luftwaffe high-ranking officer.
1890 – Birth of Paul Petit (aviator), French WWI flying ace
1886 – Birth of Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer, Founder of the Glenn L. Martin Company.
1885 – Birth of Karl Nikitsch, Austro-Hungarian WWI flying ace
1847 – Birth of Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky, Russian scientist, founding father of modern aero- and hydrodynamics. Whereas contemporary scientists scoffed at the idea of human flight, Zhukovsky was the first to undertake the study of airflow.
