Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Joby Aviation and Virgin Atlantic have formalised their air taxi partnership at Farnborough International Airshow with a binding multi-year commercial agreement, establishing Virgin Atlantic as
Researchers at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering have developed a drone called Phantom Twist that exploits the limits of human visual processing to become
IATA’s Board of Directors has appointed Saadia Zahidi, a Managing Director and Member of the Managing Board of the World Economic Forum, as the ninth
NASA and Blue Origin have signed an annex to an existing Space Act Agreement to conduct second stage hot fire testing of the New Glenn
ST Engineering’s Digital Systems business has secured new counter-drone deployments in Asia outside Singapore, covering both an air defence application and the protection of multiple
Garmin has announced Mobile Clearance Delivery for Garmin Pilot, a new capability developed in collaboration with the FAA and MITRE that allows instrument-rated pilots with
ICAO’s 2025 Safety Report documents commercial aviation’s safest year by accident rate on record, with fatal accidents falling 60% year-on-year to just four — but total fatalities rose from 296 to 387, with a single accident accounting for 260 deaths,
Boeing’s 2026 Services Market Outlook and Pilot and Technician Outlook project a $4.9 trillion commercial aviation support and services market through 2045, alongside demand for 674,000 new pilots, 728,000 maintenance technicians and 1,023,000 cabin crew, as digitisation, sustainability and geographic
IATA’s 2025 World Air Transport Statistics, drawn from data covering 1,315 airlines, document a year of broad aviation growth led by a 4.5% increase in international premium-class travel, continued Asian dominance of the world’s busiest airport pairs and a decisive
1999 – All Nippon Airways Flight 61, a Boeing 747, is hijacked by a passenger, Yuji Nishizawa, wielding a knife; after fatally stabbing the captain, he is overpowered by the crew; the first officer lands the plane safely at Haneda, Japan.
1993 – First flight of the PZL M28 (Skytruck)
1993 – At 1517 hrs. two Mikoyan MiG-29s, 526, c/n 25887, and 925, c/n 15564, of the Russian Flight Research Institute took off for a demonstration at RIAT RAF Fairford 1993, but during display suffer mid-air collision, both pilots, Alexander Beschastonov and Sergey Tresvyatsk,2] ejecting safely. Video of this accident is widely available on the internet.
1978 – McDonnell Douglas completes the 5,000th F-4 Phantom II.
1969 – Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1961 – Deliveries of the McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo to the Royal Canadian Air Force commence.
1946 – Bernard Lynch becomes the first person to be “shot” out of an airplane. Lynch was involved in the first airborne test of a British “ejection seat. ” Lynch ejected from 1941 – The Boeing-built Douglas DB-7 B attack bomber makes its first flight.
1926 – Two Lufthansa Junkers G.24s leave Berlin to make a round-trip to Beijing. They will return on September 26.
1917 – Congress approves the expenditure of $640 million on military aviation. It is the largest single appropriation approved by Congress.
1897 – Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean and one of the world’s most famous aviators, is born in Atchinson, Kansas.
