Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
New research from Honeywell and the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy suggests that AI-enabled digital technologies could significantly reduce global fuel production costs
Bell has marked International Women in Engineering Day by highlighting the careers of two engineers whose work spans advanced military aviation, flight training innovation and
Safran Nacelles is strengthening the role of its Burnley facility as the Group’s Centre of Excellence for aerospace sheet metal manufacturing, combining specialist production capabilities with advanced manufacturing technologies to support future aircraft programmes. Centre of Excellence supports complex aerospace manufacturing Safran Nacelles is continuing
The Board of Airline Representatives in Germany (BARIG) has reinforced its commitment to the air cargo sector by expanding its industry engagement and strengthening collaboration with logistics stakeholders, as airlines continue to navigate geopolitical uncertainty, supply chain disruption and increasing regulatory demands. BARIG strengthens industry collaboration
Airbus and Safran have agreed to acquire Tikehau Capital’s shareholding in French aerospace materials specialist Aubert & Duval, reinforcing long-term industrial control over a company regarded as strategically important to Europe’s aerospace and defence supply chains. Airbus and Safran strengthen ownership Airbus, Safran and Tikehau
The AAD Youth Foundation has completed a three-day Mathematics Summit Educator Programme aimed at strengthening Foundation Phase mathematics teaching, supporting South Africa’s future STEAM talent pipeline through improved classroom practice. Investing in mathematics education The AAD Youth Foundation has concluded a three-day Mathematics Summit Educator Programme
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
Japanese eVTOL developer SkyDrive has successfully flown its SD-05 aircraft at 100km/h, generating critical flight-test data that supports aircraft validation, certification activities and the company’s
AAR CORP.’s Component MRO operation in Wellington, Kansas, has been recognised by Collins Aerospace with its Supplier of the Year Award, acknowledging performance, reliability and
2009 – HK-4094, a Let L-410 Turbolet operated by Transporte Aéreo de Colombia overruns the runway at Capurganá Airport, Colombia, and is substantially damaged.
2006 – U.S. Navy VFA-122 squadron pilot Brian R. Deforge, 25, dies when his McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18 Hornet collides with another over Fort Hunter Liggett, north of San Luis Obispo, California. The other pilot successfully ejects and survives.
2003 – The NASA Helios prototype breaks up and falls into the Pacific Ocean about ten miles (16 km) W of the Hawaiian Island Kauai during a remotely piloted systems checkout flight in preparation for an endurance test scheduled for the following month. Cause was flight through wind shear on a day when the conditions had been pronounced “marginal”.
1994 – Air Ivory Fokker’s-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed / 1 lives).
1988 – Air France Flight 296, an Airbus A320, makes a low pass over Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport in landing configuration during an air show and crashes into trees at the end of the runway. Of 130 passengers aboard, 3 die.
1981 – Dan-Air Flight 240, a Hawker Siddeley HS 748, crashes near Nailstone, Leicestershire due to failure of the baggage door, causing rapid decompression and loss of control; all 3 crew on board die.
1978 – Air Canada Flight 189, a McDonnell-Douglas DC-9, crashes on takeoff in Toronto, Ontario, Canada because of tire failure; two die out of 107 passengers on board.
1974 – First flight of the Eurocopter AS350
1963 – A BAF Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar, CP45, c/n 246, en route to RAF Gütersloh, crashes near Detmold, Germany after being accidentally hit by a British mortar bomb over the Sennelager Range. 5 crewmen and 33 paratroopers died, while 9 paratroopers managed to jump to safety using their parachutes.
1959 – TWA Flight 891, a Lockheed Starliner, crashes due to a lightning strike shortly after taking off from Milan Malpensa Airport. All 68 passengers and crew on board are killed.
1950 – Australian National Airways Amana, a Douglas DC-4, crashes after takeoff from Perth Airport, killing all 29 people on board.
1948 – The Berlin Airlift begins, with USAF, Royal Air Force, and British civil transport aircraft carrying supplies into West Berlin
1946 – The U. S. Army Air Force and Navy adopt “knot” and “nautical mile” as standard aeronautical units for speed and distance. A nautical mile is about 6.080 ft. (1,853 m), and knot is the equuivalent of one nautical mile per hour.
1946 – Air Cadets were renamed the Royal Canadian Air Cadets by permission of H. M. the King.
1942 – First flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat
1936 – First flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, first fully controllable helicopter
1934 – First flight of the Airspeed Envoy
1914 – The prototype Bristol S.S.A. (for Single-Seat Armoured), c.n. 219, a Henri Coanda single-seat tractor biplane design intended for production France, crashes on landing at Filton when an undercarriage bracing wire fails. Pilot Harry Busteed slightly injured, but airframe is severely damaged. The French authorities however agree to accept delivery of the type at the Breguet factory, where it is rebuilt, and Bristol takes no further part in its development.
1912 – 2nd Lt. Henry H. Arnold, holder of Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) pilot certificate No. 29 and Military Aviator Certificate No. 2, after accepting the Army’s first tractor airplane, Burgess Model H, Signal Corps 9, crashes into Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts after takeoff, receiving the scar on his chin that he shows distinctively for the rest of his life.
1911 – As spectators watch in amazement, Lincoln Beachey flies his Curtiss pusher biplane over Horseshoe Falls, the most spectacular of the Niagara Falls.
1909 – The first commercial sale of an airplane in the United States is made as Glenn H. Curtiss sells one of his planes to the Aeronautic Society of New York for $7,500. This action spurs the Wright brothers to begin a patent suit to prevent him from selling airplanes without a license.
