Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Eve Air Mobility has completed hover and low-speed flight testing of its eVTOL prototype, advancing the programme toward transition flight testing later in 2026. Eve
Airbus Helicopters and the Spanish Navy have completed maritime crewed-uncrewed teaming trials integrating helicopters, drones, and naval combat systems during exercises in Spain. Airbus Helicopters
Passtination has launched a new airline loyalty platform designed to extend member engagement into destinations through merchant-funded travel discounts and personalised offers. A new travel technology platform aimed at extending airline loyalty engagement into the destination environment has officially launched, targeting what its founders describe as
FL Technics Indonesia says Southeast Asia’s MRO sector continues to face supply chain instability, rising logistics costs and growing operational pressure despite ongoing regional expansion. FL Technics Indonesia has highlighted ongoing supply chain instability, rising logistics costs and increasing operational pressures facing the Asia-Pacific maintenance sector
United Aircraft Corporation has begun flight testing the two-seat Su-57D fifth-generation fighter prototype, expanding the aircraft’s combat, training and command capabilities. United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), part of the Rostec State Corporation, has commenced flight testing of the Su-57D, a new two-seat variant of the Su-57 fifth-generation
IATA says European air connectivity growth stalled in 2025, citing high operating costs, regulatory burdens and EU competitiveness challenges affecting airline route expansion. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says European air connectivity effectively stagnated in 2025, citing rising operational costs, regulatory burdens and broader competitiveness
The Aerolite Spitfire Type 433 has made its public debut in Cornwall, combining modern composite technology with the design heritage of the iconic WWII fighter
Indonesia has taken delivery of Rafale fighters, Airbus A400M transport aircraft, and Dassault Falcon 8X aircraft as part of its ongoing military modernisation programme. Government
inter airport Europe will relocate to Milan and relaunch as inter airport Global in 2027, introducing new operational and ground support equipment demonstration platforms. inter
2010 – A U.S. Navy Lockheed P-3 Orion accidentally released a sonobuoy shortly after departure from NAS Jacksonville, Florida, which fell 500 feet (150 m) and crashed through the roof of a home in Mandarin, Florida, coming to rest in a bedroom next to a bed. Resident Marwan Saman said his daughter had just gotten out of that bed about a half hour earlier. The Navy sent an explosives demolition team to retrieve the 3-foot (0.91 m)-long, 40-pound cylinder. No injuries were reported, and the Navy was making arrangements to pay for the damage. A malfunctioning launch tube was theorized for the drop.
2007 – A CH-47D Chinook 87-00102 from B Company, 4–123rd Aviation Regiment crashes in Iraq due to failure of both engines. Five crewmen injured. Helicopter was blown in-place.[2]
1995 – (21-22) Historic Boeing B-29-95-BW Superfortress, 45-21768, “Kee Bird”, of the 46th/72d Reconnaissance Squadrons, abandoned in 1947 and recently restored to flying condition after a number of highly calamitous setbacks, is severely damaged by fire while attempting to take off from a frozen lakebed in Greenland. Its remains are abandoned to sink into the melting ice.
1977 – Concorde makes a special trip from New York to Paris to mark the 50th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s historic flight on the same route in the Spirit of St. Louis; the airliner takes just 3 hours, 44 min, compared with Lindbergh’s time of 33 hours, 29 min.
1975 – First flight of the Rutan VariEze
1969 – First flight of the Antonov An-26
1965 – The last flight of an RCAF Harvard was made.
1956 – A B-52 Stratofortress drops the US’s first air-dropped hydrogen bomb, a 3.75 MT device on Bikini Atoll
1949 – A Sikorsky S-52 sets a new helicopter altitude record of 21,200 ft (6,468 m).
1946 – Royal Dutch Airlines, KLM, inaugurates a scheduled service to New York. It is the first European airline to open post-war flights to New York.
1945 – Entered Service: Avro Lincoln with the Royal Air Force’s Bomber Development Unit
1945 – Entered Service: Grumman F8 F Bearcat with U. S. Navy Fighter Squadron 19 (VF-19)
1938 – First flight of the Dornier Do 26
1927 – Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1923 – A Curtiss bomber and two Curtiss scout aircraft of the Argentine Navy make a flight of just under 500 miles (805 km) along the coast of Argentina from Puerto Militar to Buenos Aires. It is a significant step forward in the development of Argentine aviation.
1918 – President Woodrow Wilson creates a Bureau of Aircraft Production responsible for aeronautical equipment.
1908 – First flight of the AEA June Bug
1878 – Glenn Hammond Curtiss was born in Hammondsport, New York. He became the pioneer of the first years of powered flight and rival of the Wright brothers.
