Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
From 23 October, Club World customers on the airline’s new London Gatwick to Colombo route will be served a Sri Lankan-inspired menu created with London
The world’s first Autism-Certified Airline hosted its first Colombian Travel Rehearsal at Bogota’s El Dorado International Airport, guiding participants through a full simulated journey. Emirates,
A new partnership with Hadrian and a $300 million facility expansion in Grand Prairie are expected to create 6,000 jobs across the United States, including
The order, the largest in ACG’s nearly 40-year history, takes the lessor’s total historical A320neo Family order to 190 aircraft. Aviation Capital Group LLC (ACG),
Speaking at Corporate Jet Investor Dubai 2026, Chapman Freeborn’s Steffen Fries argues that price competition and digital comparison tools are pushing brokers to cut corners,
The agreement renews a partnership dating back to the Embraer ERJ145, covering component support for Portugália’s fleet of 12 E190s and 7 E195s. Embraer (NYSE:
As more-electric aircraft add avionics, sensors and power electronics, engineers are rethinking cooling as a design decision rather than an afterthought, Honeywell says. Every electrical system added to an aircraft increases the heat that must be managed, and Honeywell Aerospace
An Air New Zealand DHC-8 Q300 descended to 1,022 feet above ground approaching Timaru at night in June 2023 before the crew recovered and landed safely; the Transport Accident Investigation Commission’s final report also found shortcomings in the regulator’s own
Cargo and aircraft movements also reached record levels last year, but ACI’s 2026 Annual World Airport Traffic Report finds growth cooling sharply this year amid geopolitical and economic headwinds. Airports Council International (ACI) World says global airports carried a record
1997 – First flight of the Boeing 777-300
1992 – Flt Lt Nicky Smith graduated from 89 Course at Shawbury to become the RAF’s first female helicopter pilot
1963 – A B-58 Hustler bomber of the U.S. Air Force’s 305th Bombardment Wing sets a new speed record by flying from Tokyo, Japan, to London, England, via Alaska and Greenland in 8 hours 35 minutes at an average speed of 938 mph (1,510 km/hr).
1961 – Cork Airport opened in Ireland.
1956 – Pan Am Flight 6, a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, is forced to ditch in the Pacific Ocean between Hawai’i and San Francisco; all 31 on board are rescued by a nearby United States Coast Guard ship.
1955 – The Boeing 367-80 (707 prototype) crosses the United States in just 3 hours 58 minutes
1953 – Flying a Douglas XF4D-1, Robert Rahm sets a world airspeed record over a 100 km (62 mi) closed-circuit course of 728.11 mph (1,171.53 km/hr) at Muroc Dry Lake, California.
1952 – First flight of the Sud Aviation Vautour
1937 – First flight of the Fokker T.V
1937 – First flight of the Short Sunderland
1924 – Emergency use of parachute — Following a mid-air collision over Coronado, California, Gunner William M. Coles, USN, of VF-1, made a successful emergency parachute jump from his Curtiss JN.
1917 – Final testing is made for the US Army-designed air-to-air radio communication system with a wireless set.
1912 – The first aerial bomb is used by Bulgarian Air Force pilots Radul Milkov and Prodan Toprakchiev on the Turkish railway station of Karaagac (near Edirne), during the Balkan War. This is the first use of an aeroplane (Albatross F.II) as a bomber.
1910 – The first airship crossing of the English Channel is made by the French-built dirigible Clément-Bayard II. The 244-mile route is completed in 6 hours.
1908 – Pilot S.F.Cody takes off from Farnborough Common, Great Britain, in his British Army Aeroplane No 1, a biplane powered by a 50 hp (37 kW) Antoinette engine. His flight covers 424 metres before ending in a crash landing, which he survives.
1905 – The Wright brothers complete their 1905 test flight program, making their last flight until May 1908.
