Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Joby Aviation has begun a week of real-world electric air taxi flights across the Dallas-Fort Worth region, including direct routes into DFW International Airport, as
Romania’s national carrier has welcomed its first 737-8, leased from CDB Aviation, as it begins renewing a single-aisle fleet that currently comprises four 737 Next-Generation
Two new remote sensing satellite groups reached orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, a spaceport that has anchored China’s space programme since 1958 and
America’s Consortium for Electric Skyways plans to build interoperable charging infrastructure across the Texas Triangle to support the state’s federally backed eVTOL Integration Pilot Program.
France has awarded the CASSIOPÉE contract to Airbus Defence and Space and co-contractor Unseenlabs, renewing the country’s space-based signal intelligence capability ahead of the CERES
The 12th edition of Commercial UAV Expo pulled in its largest crowd yet, with 3,800 professionals converging on Las Vegas just as new FAA rulemaking,
Sandra Diaso, Head of Human Resources at private charter and ACMI operator KlasJet, argues that what keeps professionals in aviation for decades has less to do with cockpits than with how freely people move between departments. WHY AVIATION CAREERS BECOME
The Rand Airport Airshow returned on Sunday 30 August 2026 for the first time since 2023, bringing aerobatic displays, historic aircraft and flying school exhibits back to one of South Africa’s oldest airfields, with Essential Fuels as headline sponsor. FIRST
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
2012 – Yousef Assad, a high-ranking Syrian Air Force officer and relative of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, announces his defection to the opposition in an online video.[1]
2009 – Lufthansa Flight 288, a Fokker 100 operated by Contact Air, registration D-AKFE, makes an emergency belly landing at Stuttgart Airport, Germany, after the undercarriage fails to deploy correctly.
1999 – Britannia Airways Flight 226A, a Boeing 757, veers off the runway at Girona, Catalonia (Spain) while landing in a thunderstorm and comes to rest in a field, broken apart in two places; 43 on board are injured, two seriously, but a passenger initially diagnosed as “lightly injured” dies five days later of unsuspected internal injuries.
1984 – 14-18 – Joe Kittinger makes the first solo transatlantic balloon flight, from Carbon, Maine to Savona, Italy.
1964 – First prototype EWR VJ 101C, X-1, an experimental German jet fighter VTOL aircraft (VJ stood for “Vertikal Jäger” – German for “Vertical Fighter”), crashes after a normal horizontal take-off, but pilot escapes using Martin-Baker Mk. GA7 zero-zero ejection seat.
1963 – First flight of the Mitsubishi MU-2
1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
1948 – Retirement: Brewster F2 A Buffalo by the Finnish Air Force.
1944 – The first successful flight into the eye of a hurricane was made by a three-man crew flying a Douglas A-20 Havoc. They demonstrated that valuable scientific information can be obtained in this manner, which is still done today.
1939 – First flight of the Bristol Bolingbroke
1939 – First flight of the Sikorsky VS-300, the first helicopter to enter mass production.
1938 – The Graf Zeppelin II makes its maiden flight. A number of events, including the Hindenburg disaster and a United States refusal to provide helium, prevented the most technologically advanced airship of its day from fulfilling its role as a passenger transport. 19 months later it would be scrapped.
1918 – The British aircraft carrier Argus is completed. She is the world’s first aircraft carrier with an unobstructed flight deck from stem to stern.
1917 – First flight of the Fairey III.
