Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
The EA-18G Growler made its first flight from St. Louis on 15 August 2006. Two decades on it remains the United States Navy’s principal airborne
Royal Air Maroc Cargo’s Casablanca–Los Angeles service, launched on 7 June 2026 with three weekly Boeing 787 flights, makes it the only African carrier connecting
SAS has confirmed that operational and practical preparations are complete for its nonstop Copenhagen–Mumbai service, opening on 1 October 2026 with five weekly Airbus A330
Globe Air Cargo Türkiye has represented EGYPTAIR since 2016, during which the Egyptian flag carrier has moved from a purely belly cargo presence to operating
The first aircraft under a new sale-and-leaseback mandate between Aviation Capital Group and Wizz Air was handed over at the Airbus Delivery Centre in Toulouse.
AAR has held a ribbon cutting for the expansion of its Airframe MRO facility at Miami International Airport, adding over 100,000 square feet and three
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
The FAA’s proposed rule would insert a new 14 CFR 400.3 disapplying specified provisions of 13 federal laws — including NEPA in full and Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act — from launch site, reentry site, experimental permit and
1982 – First flight of the Hawk GAFHawk
1982 – Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to be launched into space.
1981 – A Royal Australian Air Force Bell UH-1 Iroquois fatally crashed at Willamstown, New South Wales. All UH-1Bs are grounded.
1969 – Embraer is founded by Brazil’s Ministry of Aeronautics.
1968 – Handley Page Victor K.1 XH646 of No. 214 Squadron RAF collided in mid-air near Holt, Norfolk, United Kingdom in bad weather with a 213 Squadron English Electric Canberra WT325, all four crew members of the Victor died.
1963 – A USAF Boeing QB-47E Stratojet, of the 3205th Drone Director Group, veers off course on touchdown at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, crashing onto Eglin Parkway parallel to runway 32/14. Two cars were crushed by the Stratojet, killing two occupants, Robert W. Glass and Dr. Robert Bundy, and injuring a third, Dorothy Phillips. Mr. Glass and Dr. Bundy both worked for the Minnesota Honeywell Corporation at the time, a firm which had just completed flight tests on an inertia guidance sub-system for the X-20 Dyna-Soar project at the base utilizing a McDonnell NF-101B Voodoo.. Both vehicles were destroyed by fire. The QB-47 was used for Bomarc Missile Program tests, which normally operated from Auxiliary Field Three (Duke Field), approximately 15 miles from the main base, but was diverted to Eglin Main after thunderstorms built up over Duke.
1960 – In Moscow, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
1960 – Sputnik 5 – The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.
1958 – First flight of the Lockheed P-3 Orion
1957 – 19-20 – Maj David Simons sets a new balloon altitude record of 101,516 ft (30,942 m).
1955 – Sixth of 13 North American X-10s, GM-19312, c/n 6, on Navaho X-10 flight number 16, out of Edwards AFB, California, demonstrates planned automated landing on first AFMTC flight, but drag chute does not deploy after landing. The vehicle overruns the skid strip, the nosewheel collapses in the sand in the overrun, the tanks rupture, and the vehicle burns.
1929 – The first metal airship built for the U. S. Navy makes its first flight. The ZMC-2 is a 22,600 cu. ft. helium balloon supported by transverse metal frames and longitudinal stiffeners with a thin metal covering forming the outer skin.
1918 – A US. Navy Curtiss 18-T-1 triplane flown by Curtiss test pilot Roland Rholfs establishes a new world speed record of 163 mph (232.32 km/hr) carrying a load of 1,076 lbs.
1913 – 700 feet above Buc, France, parachutist Adolphe Pégoud becomes the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely.
1911 – British naval officer Comdr. Charles R. Samson sets a new British endurance record of 4 hours, 58 min, 30 seconds. The Short S.38 biplane has special tanks allowing sufficient fuel for more than 4 hours flying.
1871 – Orville Wright was born in Dayton, Ohio. He was co-inventor, with his brother Wilbur, of the first airplane to achieve powered, sustained, and controlled flight and the first fully practical powered airplane. Orville piloted the famous first flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina after winning a coin flip against his brother.
