Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Boeing, WZL-1 and WCBKT have signed offset implementation agreements establishing in-country maintenance, repair and overhaul capability for Poland’s 96 AH-64E Apache helicopters. Poland is the
Joby Aviation has agreed to acquire Dayton-based Resonant Sciences for approximately $500 million, adding a business with more than $100 million in trailing revenue, roughly
Avolon has agreed a sale and leaseback with Akasa Air covering up to seven Boeing 737-8200 aircraft, extending a relationship dating to the Indian carrier’s
Air New Zealand and Air Chathams have expanded their interline partnership so that passengers travelling to and from the Chatham Islands can book one journey
Brazil’s ANAC has issued a Supplemental Type Certificate for the Universal Avionics InSight integrated flight display system on the Cessna Citation VII, joining FAA, TCCA
The national carrier of the Solomon Islands will deploy Maureva’s MARGO Cargo Management System across air waybill management and cargo revenue accounting, in an agreement
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
The FAA’s proposed rule would insert a new 14 CFR 400.3 disapplying specified provisions of 13 federal laws — including NEPA in full and Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act — from launch site, reentry site, experimental permit and
IATA’s June air cargo data shows African carriers with the fastest year-to-date demand growth of any world region at 11.1%, more than double the global average of 4.9%. Over the same period African capacity contracted by 0.7%, and in June
2009 – Australian airline Strategic Airlines commences operations.
1979 – Steve Hinton sets a new piston-engined airspeed record in a specially-modified P-51 Mustang named the Red Baron. He reaches 499 mph (803 km/h) over Nevada.
1974 – First flight of the Panavia Tornado
1953 – A Royal Australian Air Force Sabre fighter scares an unknown number of kangaroos as it becomes the first airplane to break the sound barrier over Australia.
1962 – NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m.
1959 – Canadair was awarded a contract to manufacture the CF 104.
1958 – First flight of the Grumman Gulfstream I
1953 – The sound barrier is broken over Australia for the first time by Flight Lieutenant Bentleigh, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), in the first Australian-built Sabre fighter at Avalon, Victoria.
1932 – First successful single-lift rotor helicopter: Alexei Cheremukhin & Boris Yuriev’s TsAGI-1 EA, which flew to a record altitude of 605 m (1,985 ft).
1932 – 14-23 – Frances Mersalis and Louise Thaden set a women’s endurance record of 8 days 4 hours.
1932 – 14-28 – The third International Tourist Aircraft Contest Challenge 1932 in Berlin, won by the Polish crew Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura on the RWD-6 plane.
1931 – Piloted by M. M. Gromov, the Tupolev ANT-14 large passenger aircraft makes its first flight. The largest landplane of its day, it could carry 36 passengers.
1915 – First flight of the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.9
1914 – The first true bomber, the French Voisin III, is used in combat for the first time in an attack on German airship hangars at Metz-Frascaty, Germany.
1909 – The first woman passenger to fly in a powered airplane in Great Britain is the wife of Samuel F. Cody. She is taken for a 3-minute flight from the Royal Engineers Balloon Factory at Farnborough in Cody’s British Army Aeroplane No.1.
