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The company’s Lake Charles, Louisiana facility will provide depot-level maintenance for the C-130 airlift platform, expanding capacity to improve aircraft availability and return aircraft to
The programme, worth up to 5 billion euros and running until July 2029, follows approval communicated alongside Airbus’s July 2026 Business Update; the first 800
The equally owned venture, Thales ELT Naval EW Solutions, combines both companies’ Naval Electronic Warfare product portfolios, with Matthieu Bouquet as Chairman and Gianni Maratta
The acquisition combines B&H Worldwide’s global aerospace logistics network with Founders Logistics’ specialist aircraft engine transportation expertise. B&H Worldwide, a leading independent provider of aviation
Information Design One’s aFuel platform is now live at Melbourne International Airport and with a second refuelling service provider at Prague Airport, as the digital
The milestone aircraft was delivered to White Saddle Air Services, a family-owned helicopter operator in British Columbia’s Cariboo Chilcotin region. Bell Textron Inc., a Textron
By Robin Rabec Cape Winelands Airport is taking shape as one of South Africa’s most ambitious aviation developments. Watch our exclusive video interview with CEO Nick Fergusson as he discusses the project’s progress, commercial strategy and vision for the future.
All nine people aboard the Aurora Aviation-operated jet were killed when it crashed near Greenacres and Palm Springs, Florida, on Sunday. This is a developing story which WAN will continue to cover. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said at
The airline’s South Africa country lead points to digital convenience, personalisation and sustainability as the forces reshaping how people choose to fly. As South Africa observes Transport Month in October, Cathay Pacific said evolving traveller expectations around convenience, personalisation and
2005 – Launch: Venus Express, the first exploration mission of the European Space Agency, launched from Kazakhstan. It arrived on Venus the following April, and is funded to continue to send back data until December 2012.
2004 – A U.S. Navy McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18C Hornet crashes 15 miles (24 km) east of Nellis AFB, Nevada, after in flight fire and becoming uncontrollable shortly after takeoff. Pilot ejects safely.
1999 – TAESA Flight 725, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, crashes near Uruapan, Mexico, killing all 18 on board.
1980 – Dan-Air registers the last commercial flight by a de Havilland Comet. The plane flew enthusiasts on a round-trip flight from London.
1978 – First flight of the YAV-8B.
1967 – Launch of the Apollo 4 mission, an unmanned Saturn V, the largest launch vehicle ever to fly successfully.
1962 – An engine failure forced Jack McKay, a NASA research pilot, to make an emergency landing at Mud Lake, Nevada, in the second North American X-15, 56-6671 on flight 2-31-52. The aircraft’s landing gear collapsed and the X-15 flipped over on its back. McKay was promptly rescued by an Air Force medical team standing by near the launch site, and eventually recovered to fly the X-15 again. But his injuries, more serious than at first thought, eventually forced his retirement from NASA. The aircraft was sent back to the manufacturer, where it underwent extensive repairs and modifications.
It returned to Edwards AFB in February 1964 as the X-15A-2, with a longer fuselage and external fuel tanks.
1961 – USAF Major Robert M White takes the X-15 to a height of 30,970 m.
1956 – Second prototype Martin XP6M-1 Seamaster, BuNo 138822, c/n XP-2, first flown 18 May 1956, crashes at 1536 hrs. near Odessa, Delaware due to faulty elevator jack. As seaplane noses up at ~21,000 feet (6,400 m) and fails to respond to control inputs, crew of 4 ejects, pilot Robert S. Turner, co-pilot William Cunningham, and two crew all parachuting to safety. Airframe breaks up after falling to 6,000 feet (1,800 m) before impact.
1946 – First flight of the Lockheed R6V Constitution by Joe Towle and Tony LeVier.
1945 – Disregarding advice from Eric “Winkle” Brown of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA), to treat the rudder of the Heinkel He 162 with suspicion due to a number of in-flight failures, RAF pilot, Flt. Lt. R.A. Marks, starts a low-level roll during the Farnborough Air Show, one of the fin and rudder assemblies breaks off, the aircraft crashes in Aldershot before the ejection seat could be employed, killing Marks.
1944 – First flight of the Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter in Seattle. After the war it will be redesigned as an aerial tanker.
1932 – Wolfgang von Gronau and crew in a Dornier Wal completed the first flight around the world by a seaplane. Their flight took 111 days.
1930 – First airline flight from New York to Panama.
1904 – Wilbur Wright flies the Wright Flyer II a distance of 3 miles (5 km) near Dayton, Ohio, the first flight of longer than five seconds.
