Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Acron Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Commercial Training Solutions business to FlightSafety International, transferring eight decades of simulator manufacturing heritage and
Elroy Air and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development have conducted hybrid-electric cargo demonstration flights at Houma-Terrebonne Airport using the uncrewed Chaparral aircraft. The
Airbus Asia Training Centre will house an A220 full-flight simulator at its Seletar campus from the fourth quarter of 2027, deployed by Flight Training Alliance
AAR CORP. has appointed Sanjay Sood as Senior Vice President and Chief Digital and Technology Officer, reporting to Chairman, President and Chief Executive John M.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand will introduce Boeing’s Competency-Based Training and Assessment Learning Library across flight training organisations throughout the country. Boeing states it
Honeywell’s IntuVue RDR-7000 scans automatically from ground level to 60,000 feet and identifies turbulence, hail, lightning and windshear without the manual tilt and gain adjustment
Boeing forecasts that commercial aviation will need 674,000 new pilots over the next two decades, yet competition for entry-level First Officer positions remains intense. Industry figures interviewed by BAA Training argue the contradiction is not real: the shortage is a
An analysis by Texas Christian University’s Center for Supply Chain Innovation finds that American Airlines’ hub at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport supports around $70 billion in annual economic output and an estimated 350,000 jobs across North Texas, and identifies
Charlie Trimble, who founded Trimble in 1978 and brought the world’s first commercially viable GPS receiver to market six years later, will receive the American Geographical Society’s O.M. Miller Cartographic Medal, in recognition for the commercialisation of a technology that
1974 – The U. S. Air Force SR-71 Blackbird 61-17972, flown by Major James Sullivan (pilot) and Major Noel F, Widdifield (reconnaissance systems officer), crosses the Atlantic Ocean from New York City to London in a world record 1 h 54 min 56 seconds at an average speed of 1,806.96 mph (2,909.76 km/h).
1974 – The Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk company demonstrator N671SA crashed while attempting to recover from a roll at too low an altitude during its display at the Farnborough Air Show, United Kingdom, killing its two crew.
1967 – The U. S. Navy’s first dedicated search-and-rescue squadron, Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 7 (HC-7), is commissioned at Atsugi, Japan; it operates UH-2 Seasprite helicopters. Previously, all Navy search-and-rescue had been performed by helicopter antisubmarine squadrons. HC-7 will make its first rescue on October 3 in Haiphong Harbor, North Vietnam.
j1953 – The sole YB-47F Stratojet modified for probe-and-drogue refueling is refueled by the sole KB-47G in the first jet-to-jet aerial refueling
1953 – The first scheduled international helicopter service begins between Belgium and France. The service is operated by Belgian airline Sabena.
1948 – First flight of the Saab J-29, Sweden’s first jet
1946 – Using Douglas DC-4 aircraft, Northwest Airlines initiates service between Seattle, Washington, and Anchorage, Alaska, as the first leg of its proposed United States-Japan North Pacific route.
1946 – Entered Service: Vickers Viking with British European Airways (G-AHOP)
1940 – First flight of the North American P-64 (NA-68)
1939 – Second prototype Saro S.36 Lerwick twin-engine flying boat, L7249, sinks at pierside mooring at Felixstowe, Suffolk, when, after flight test at the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment (MAEE), a hatch is left improperly secured attempt by crew to save it fails as it had already shipped too much water – salvaged for static tests only.
1937 – First flight of the Bell YFM-1 Airacuda
1937 – Air Canada, Canada’s largest airline, began operations.
1937 – Douglas Aircraft Company acquires the remaining 49 percent of the shares of its Northrop Corp. subsidiary and begins operating the facility in August 1938 as the Douglas El Segundo (Calif.) Division.
1923 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
1921 – President Warren Harding authorizes the creation of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, with Rear Admiral Moffet as its chief.
1913 – Frenchman Adolphe Pégoud does the first upside-down flight.
