Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Egypt’s Prime Minister has reviewed progress on the construction of Terminal 4 at Cairo International Airport, a project that will more than double the airport’s
China has successfully recovered the first stage of the Long March-10B carrier rocket at sea following its maiden flight on 10 July 2026, marking the
Dassault Aviation and Harmattan AI have successfully completed a collaborative in-flight engagement between a Rafale F4 and an unmanned aerial system carrying the NAMIB electronic
The JAA Training Organisation has welcomed two new members to its Foundation Board following their nomination at the 166th ECAC Directors General meeting in Marseille,
WestJet Mainline flight attendants represented by CUPE 8125 have opened a strike vote that runs until 15 July 2026, as federally conciliated negotiations on wages,
Air Zimbabwe is set to restart direct scheduled services between Harare and London Gatwick by the end of July 2026 — reconnecting Zimbabwe and the
Honeywell Aerospace Technologies’ latest Global Business Aviation Outlook projects operators will acquire 8,500 new business jets worth $283 billion between 2025 and 2034, with deliveries recovering from a pandemic-era trough and fractional ownership emerging as a significant structural force in
Bell’s annual Flight Camp in Amarillo, Texas, gives local middle school students a week-long introduction to engineering, aviation and advanced manufacturing, with the programme designed to build a pipeline of future talent for the company’s assembly operations. A WEEK-LONG WINDOW
KEYVAN Aviation has released a new version of its DPilot mobile application, providing pilots and flight schools with enhanced access to certified aeronautical data, interactive airspace visualisation and digital pre-flight planning tools. Digital support for flight training KEYVAN Aviation
2009 – Southwest Airlines Flight 2294, a Boeing 737-300 from Nashville to Baltimore makes an emergency landing in Charleston, West Virginia after a 14×17 inch hole opens in the skin of the fuselage at 34,000 feet (10,000 m), causing a loss of cabin pressure; the plane lands safely with no injuries.
2008 – (13-19) 18th FAI World Precision Flying Championship
1995 – Launch: Space Shuttle Discovery STS-70 at 9:41:55.078 a.m. EDT. Mission highlights: TDRS-G/IUS deployed.
1992 – First flight of the 3I Sky Arrow, Italian 2 tandem seat, pusher configuration, high wing and carbon fibre light aircraft.
1988 – The 1988 British International Helicopters Sikorsky S-61N crash in the North Sea due to an engine fire; all 21 on board survive.
1986 – First flight of the PZL-130 T Turbo Orlik, Polish turboprop, single engine, two seat trainer, export version with a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 A-25 A turboprop.
1969 – Launch of Luna 15 (Ye-8-5 series), Soviet unmanned space mission to the moon also called Lunik 15.
1950 – The first flight of the Avro Canada Orenda engine on an Avro Lancaster test bed at Malton.
1945 – A US Army Air Forces Douglas A-26C Invader, 44-35553, on a training flight has mid-air collision with Eastern Airlines Flight 45 from Washington, D.C. to Columbia, South Carolina, a Douglas DC-3, NC25647′,’ at ~3100 feet, 11.9 miles WNW of Florence, South Carolina at 1436 hrs. A-26 vertical fin strikes port wing of airliner, displaces engine of DC-3 which cuts into fuselage; A-26 tail sheared off, two crew parachute, one KWF. DC-3 pilot belly lands in cornfield, one passenger of 24 total on board killed.
1929 – The Polish aviator Ludwik Idzikowski crashes in the Azores and dies in an attempt of a westbound transatlantic flight.
1928 – An Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan crashes on a test flight from Croydon Airport with a pilot and five passengers near Purley, Surrey, 3 miles (4.8 km) from the airport, with the loss of four passengers. As a result of the crash Imperial Airways stopped the flying of staff (so-called joy rides) on test flights
1925 – Western Air Express is founded.
1919 – The British military airship R.34, operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF), accomplishes the first two-way transatlantic air crossing. The outward journey is also the first air crossing of the Atlantic from east to west.
1915 – Birth of David Lee “Tex” Hill, American WWII fighter ace and Korean War fighter pilot. One of the First pilots of First American Volunteer Group (better known by its later nickname of the Flying Tigers)
1913 – Léon Letort carries out the First non-stop flight between Paris and Berlin when he flies his Morane-Saulnier monoplane fitted with an 80-hp Le Rhône engine the 590 miles between the two capitals.
1910 – Death of Oskar Erbslöh, German aviation pioneer, in the crash of his airship Erbslöh
1909 – If brief hops by Alliott Verdon Roe on June 8, 1908 are discounted, the first flight made by an Englishman in an English airplane takes place when Roe flies his Roe I triplane for the first time at Lea Marsches in Essex. He flies only 100 ft., but on July 23 he extends the distance to some 900 ft. off the ground.
1897: Salomon August Andrée, Nils Strindberg and Knut Frænkel lands their hydrogen balloon ‘Eagle’ in the Arctic.
