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Equinix has tested and installed Honeywell Aerospace’s Thermal Response Module at its Co-Innovation Facility in Ashburn, Virginia, applying phase-change thermal buffering technology developed for aerospace
The carrier’s passenger load factor rose to 87.1 per cent on strong Asian and European demand, even as a 118 per cent year-to-date rise in
The partnership will see Safran’s turbojet engines power a reusable supersonic aerial target designed for missile defence training, with flight testing scheduled to begin in
The French Armament General Directorate has cleared the new vertical take-off and landing variant of the tactical uncrewed aerial system for service under the French
Flight engineers Joshua Kutryk and Anil Menon are preparing to install the eighth and final roll-out solar array during a spacewalk planned for Thursday. Preparations
The aviation aftermarket company will use the proceeds, along with a share placement and credit facility borrowings, to help fund its pending acquisition of a
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
2009 – UM-239, a Xian MA60 operated by Air Zimbabwe, hits five warthogs on take-off from Harare International Airport. The take-off is rejected but the undercarriage collapses causing substantial damage to the aircraft.
2006 – Qantas announces an order for 8 more Airbus A380 along with an order for 4 Airbus A330-200.
2003 – British Airways Concorde G-BOAG leaves London Heathrow at 1500Z as BA9093C for the final time. She would fly on to Seattle Boeing Field and retire to the Museum of Flight.
2000 – Last flight of an EC-135E Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft as a flight crew from the Air Force Flight Test Center delivers the last EC-135E, (serial number 60-374 – nicknamed “The Bird of Prey”), with full Prime Mission Electronic Equipment (PMEE), to the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
1994 – Launch: Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-66 at 11:59:43.060 am EDT. Mission highlights: ATLAS-3 science platform.
1973 – The number three engine of National Airlines Flight 27, a Douglas DC-10-10, explodes while the aircraft is over New Mexico. Fragments penetrate the fuselage, causing one passenger to be sucked from the plane; his body is found two years later. The aircraft lands safely.
1973 – NASA launches Mariner 10, a robotic space probe intended to fly past Venus and Mercury, reaching both planets the following February and March respectively. After a year and a half of service and over 2,000 photos sent back to Earth, its nitrogen supply dwindled and its transponder was shut off. It still orbits the sun today.
1957 – The Ruskians launch Sputnik 2, an orbiter that delivered the first animal into a space; a female terrier named Laika. The 3-year-old dog was sent to determine if a living creature could withstand launch and weightlessness, but she ultimately died a few hours after launch due to overheating due to a thermal control issue. Regardless, she proved that oxygen-craving creatures could enter space, and Laika was considered a hero.
1952 – First flight of the Saab 32 Lansen
1949 – Charles Moore makes the first manned flight in a polyethylene balloon over Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1926 – First flight of the Boeing F2B
1926 – Captain Charles Lindbergh jumped from his disabled airplane during a night airmail flight, making this the fourth time he has had to use his parachute to save his life.
1915 – Royal Naval Air Service Flight Sub-Lieutenant Fowler makes the first British take-off of an aircraft with a conventional, wheeled undercarriage from a ship when he flies a Bristol Scout from HMS Vindex.
1915 – Flt Sub-Lt Fowler makes the first take-off of an aircraft with a conventional, wheeled undercarriage from a ship when he flies a Bristol Scout C from HMS Vindex.
1914 – Alec Ogilvie patents the first practical airspeed indicator (Wrong Date!) See December 3 (1914). Improvements in or connected with Combined Pitot and Static Pressure Tubes. Filed 1913-12-04 • Granted 1914-12-03 • https://patents.google.com/patent/GB191327931A/en?assignee=Alec+Ogilvie [To be removed for wrong date]
1897 – The first flight in a rigid airship was made by Ernst Jägels, flying an all-aluminum craft designed by the Austro-Hungarian engineer David Schwarz and built by Carl Berg. The Schwarz machine was 134 feet long and roughly 45 feet in diameter, weighing-in at 5,720 pounds. The craft took to the air without the inventor and constructor (having died before the flight). His death led to his wife, Melanie, completing the project to honor his life’s work. However, the result was the craft’s completion with some key technologies left out to save weight. The airship, having reached its designed altitude, was uncontrollable at that altitude in the face of a strong wind, and the inexperienced pilot, Jägels, released too much gas too suddenly, losing control of the rate of descent, resulting in a crash which destroyed the craft. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin buys the wreck and its plans from Schwarz’s widow Melanie.[2]
