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Airlink will launch twice-weekly non-stop flights between Cape Town and Mauritius from October 2026, using its new Embraer E195-E2 aircraft and expanding direct connectivity between
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Romania’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has ordered seven Airbus H160 and five H145 helicopters under the SAFE programme to strengthen emergency response, civil protection and public safety capabilities. ROMANIA SELECTS AIRBUS H160 AND H145 HELICOPTERS Order supports national emergency and security capabilities The Romanian Ministry of
Airbus Defence and Space has formed a consortium with Rohde & Schwarz, constellr, Orbint and HPS to develop a sovereign European satellite-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability. AIRBUS FORMS SPACE INTELLIGENCE CONSORTIUM Partnership targets sovereign European ISR capability Airbus Defence and Space has signed a Memorandum
CANAVIA Aviation Academy has expanded its Tecnam fleet with four Next Generation aircraft, bringing its total fleet to 16 aircraft and supporting its growing airline pilot training programme in Spain. Gran Canaria-based CANAVIA Aviation Academy has confirmed a significant expansion of its training fleet through the
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Safran Electronics & Defense is investing €120 million in its Montluçon facility to triple production of its hemispherical resonator gyroscope technology and create 500 new
Honeywell has launched enhanced capabilities for Safety Suite 2.0, providing real-time visibility, forecasting tools and improved safety management features for industrial operations. CHARLOTTE, USA –
AFRIDEX 2026 will introduce large-scale outdoor displays and live operational demonstrations, creating a defence exhibition platform focused on capability development, technology and industry collaboration across
2009 – Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 5414, a Canadair CRJ-200ER, registration N857AS, makes an emergency landing at Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport, United States after an undercarriage malfunction. The aircraft is substantially damaged.
1991 – The first crash involving a Bell-Boeing Osprey occurs when the fifth MV-22, BuNo 163915, three minutes into its maiden flight at a Boeing flight test facility at Wilmington, Delaware, suffers problems with the gyros due to incorrect wiring in the flight-control system and crashes into the ground from a 15-foot (4.6 metre) hover during an attempted landing, the left rotor striking first, the airframe turning over and catching fire. Two crew eject and survive. Two of the three roll-rate gyros had been wired in reverse. “To compound the problem, the flight control built-in test was not run before the flight. With the flight control voting logic discounting the correct gyro signal, the aircraft was doomed.” As this airframe was heavily damaged on its acceptance flight, it never officially entered service. This airframe had been slated for avionics integration, autopilot, aircrew training, and operational evaluation.[3]
1974 – Northrop YF-17 A 72-01569 becomes the first American fighter to break the sound barrier in level flight when not in afterburner.
1971 – British pilot Shelia Scott makes the first flight by a light plane from equator to equator via the North Pole. Flying in a Pipper Aztec D, she covers 34,000 miles (54,718 km).
1953 – The second Gloster Javelin prototype crashes after experiencing a deep stall killing test pilot Peter Lawrence.
1937 – First flight of the Kawanishi E11K
1931 – The 40 passenger Handley Page HP-42 four-engine biplane enters service with British airline Imperial Airways, setting new standards of passenger service and comfort.
1929 – At the Wasserkuppe, Alexander Lippisch‘s Ente becomes the first aircraft to fly under rocket power. [Note: The date may have been in 1928, according to “Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA.”].
1926 – The first flight of the Ford Trimotor, an all-metal monoplane which competes with the three-engine Fokker and becomes a pioneer American airliner. It is known affectionately as the “Tin Goose”.
1920 – First flight of the Verville VCP
1912 – Lieutenant Leighton W. Hazelhurst, Jr. (July 1887 – 11 June 1912) and Arthur L. Welsh (14 August 1881 – 11 June 1912) are killed in crash of Wright Model C, U.S. Army Signal Corps serial number 4, in College Park, Maryland, possibly the first multiple-death aviation crash involving a single airframe. (Balloon and airship crashes had prior multiple fatalities. The first multiple fatality airplane accident in history had occurred at Centocelle, near Rome, 3 December 1910, when Lt. Enrico Cammarota and Private S. Castellani became the 26th and 27th people to die in an airplane crash when their machines collided.) Hazelhurst was the third army officer to die in an aeroplane crash. Airframe had recently been purchased by the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps. The United States Army Signal Corps had established a series of tests for the aircraft, and Welsh and Hazelhurst were taking the Model C on a climbing test, one of the last in the series required by the Army. Shortly after takeoff, the plane pitched over while making a turn and fell 30 feet (9.1 m) to the ground, killing both crew members. They had both been ejected from their seats, with Welsh suffering a crushed skull and Hazelhurst a broken neck. The New York Times described Welsh as “one of the most daring professional aviators in America” and his flying partner Hazelhurst as being among the “most promising of the younger aviators of the army”. A board of officers was formed by the United States Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson, which concluded that Welsh was at fault in the crash, having risen to 150 feet, with the plan to dive at a 45-degree angle in order to gain momentum for a climb, but had made the dive too soon, with the board’s results reported in the June 29, 1912 issue of Scientific American. In a 2003 interview, a cousin of Welsh’s reported the family’s belief that the tests were run too rapidly and that Welsh was doomed to fail by carrying too much fuel and a passenger, giving a craft that would be unable to make the planned maneuver with the weight it was carrying.
1911 – First flight of the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.1
1897 – Salomon Andrée, N. Strindberg and K. Fraenkel attempt an Arctic expedition to the North Pole by free balloon from Spitzbergen, departing on 11 Jul 1897 [4][better source needed]. He and two companions crash within three days but manage to survive for several months in the pack ice. Their remains are discovered in 1930 on White Island. It was possible to develop the located film material.
