Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
The multi-billion-dollar award, intended to replace the Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet fleet, is Boeing’s second sixth-generation fighter contract after 2025’s F-47 win for the US
The first of two A350F test aircraft flew for just over four hours on 29 September, opening a flight test campaign of more than nine
Hanoi becomes the first Vietnamese city in EHang’s Global Fast Track Program, with local partner HungViet signing a sandbox-testing agreement centred on the pilotless EH216-S
All regions reported growth even as capacity was trimmed overall, with African carriers posting the sharpest capacity increase of any region on a 3.0% rise
Durban becomes Ethiopian’s third South African destination alongside Johannesburg and Cape Town, with daily service resuming on 11 December. Ethiopian Airlines will resume daily passenger
The undefinitized contract, running for more than seven years, will significantly expand propulsion production for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence system, which has a
Cargo and aircraft movements also reached record levels last year, but ACI’s 2026 Annual World Airport Traffic Report finds growth cooling sharply this year amid geopolitical and economic headwinds. Airports Council International (ACI) World says global airports carried a record
The proposed directive would require inspections on 95 US-registered aircraft after Boeing reported some elevator control bearings may have been installed incorrectly, or without sealant, during production. The FAA has proposed a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing 737-8,
The Johannesburg-based University of the Witwatersrand and the Institut Superieur de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace will align their engineering curricula and run a reciprocal faculty exchange, backed by Airbus Southern Africa. AIRBUS, WITS UNIVERSITY AND ISAE-SUPAERO SIGN AGREEMENT TO BOOST
2012 – U.S. airlines have collected US$924 million in baggage fees since July 1, a three percent increase over the same period in 2011.[1]
1994 – Launch: Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-68 at 7:16:01 am EDT. Mission highlights: Space Radar Laboratory-2.
1990 – Introduction: Piaggio Avanti
1985 – The first Italian aircraft carrier, Giuseppe Garibaldi, is commissioned.
1982 – H Ross Perot Jr. and J. W. Coburn make history by landing their Bell LongRanger II helicopter in Dallas, Texas 29 days, 3 hours, and 8 min after taking off. It is the first time a trip around the world is completed by helicopter.
1975 – First flight of the Boeing AH-64 Apache
1958 – Britain’s last flying boat airliners are put out of service when Aquila Airways terminates it Southampton–Madeira route
1957 – Austrian Airlines is formed from the merger of Air Austria and Austrian Airways
1955 – Retired: Ryan X-13 Vertijet
1949 – The Berlin Airlift officially ends, with 2,325 tons (2,362 tonnes) of food and supplies having been flown into the city. The final flight is made a week later.
1949 – First Avro 707 delta-wing research aircraft, VX784, first flown 6 September 1949 (one source says 4 September), crashes near Blackbushe on test flight out of Boscombe Down, killing Avro test pilot Flt. Lt. Eric Esler. Cause never established
1943 – First flight of the Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet
1941 – Maritime Central Airlines was formed at Charlottetown P. E. I. by Carl Burk and Josiah Anderson.
1932 – First flight of the Blackburn Baffin
1929 – Fritz von Opel pilots the world’s first rocket-powered Opel RAK.1 aircraft on a 75-second, 1.6-kilometer (0.99 mi) flight near Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
1919 – The British Aerial Transport Company begins domestic flights between London and Birmingham in a Koolhoven FK.26.
1914 – The Wakamiya is damaged by a naval mine and forced to retire from the Siege of Tsingtao, ending the first combat deployment of an aviation ship in history.
1911 – First flight across the Continental Divide: Cromwell Dixon in a Curtiss on (both directions)
1907 – A. V. Roe tested his 6-hp JAP powered full scale Biplane at Brooklands, but does not take off. (RAF).
1907 – Flying a Voisin-Farman I biplane at Issy, Henry Farman begins a progressively longer series of flights.
1906 – The Gordon Bennett Trophy (right) for ballooning is awarded for the first time. It goes to Lt Frank Lahm of the US Army, who flies 647 km (402 miles) in the balloon.
