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Indianapolis Makes Up for Air Show Loss

With the Indianapolis Air Show grounded after a 16-year run in Indiana, aviation enthusiasts have two airworthy substitutes to look up to over the next two weekends. An Indy fly-in this Saturday will feature hundreds of private pilots gathered at Indianapolis Regional Airport (formerly Mount Comfort Airport) in Hancock County. On June 7, the Commemorative Air […]

On This Day in Aviation History

1902 – Birth of Henri Guillaumet, French pioneer aviator. 1919 – Agustin Parla, the first Cuban pilot, performs the first commercial flight to the U.S. with a Curtiss flying boat named “Sunshine.” 1934 – Highland Airways commences the first regular airmail service within the UK, between Inverness and Kirkwall, with a de Havilland DH84 Dragon. […]

On This Day in Aviation History

1914 – Birth of Wilfrid George Gerald Duncan Smith, British RAF World War II ace. 1931 – A Bellanca CH-300, fitted with a Packard DR-980 and piloted by Walter Edwin Lees and Frederick Brossy, sets a record for staying aloft 84 hours, 32 minutes without refueling. 1981 – First flight of the Yakovlev Yak-55 (shown),a […]

RAF Crews Take Over Rivet Joint Flights

A Rivet Joint surveillance aircraft has been flown in UK airspace by an Royal Air Force aircrew for the first time. Pictures released by MOD show a UK Boeing Rivet Joint RC-135W signals intelligence aircraft taking off from RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. The aircraft is one of three that MOD is buying from the U.S. which, as part of the Airseeker […]

On This Day in Aviation History

1848 – Birth of Otto Lilienthal, German pioneer of human aviation who became the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful gliding flights. 1938 – First flight of the Fiat CR.42 Falco (shown), an Italian single-seat World War II fighter. 1941 – Two dozen German Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers attack British destroyers HMS Kelly […]

Wyoming Town Plans for Aviation Museum

Hoping to better tap into the flow of tourist dollars, the Greybull Area Chamber of Commerce in Wyoming is making progress in its efforts to open an aviation museum at the South Big Horn County Airport. Selena Brown, who volunteers for the chamber, said she and other chamber officials are working with the Wyoming Department […]

On This Day in Aviation History

1931 – First flight of the Berliner-Joyce XFJ (shown), a U.S. prototype carrier-based biplane fighter. 1930 – Death of Alfred William Saunders, Irish World War I fighter ace, in the crash of his de Havilland Gipsy Moth in Auckland, New Zealand. 1957 – A U.S. Air Force Convair B-36J Peacemaker, ferrying a Mark 17 nuclear bomb from Biggs AFB, Texas to […]

Latest Earhart Prepares for World Voyage

Contemporary aviatrix Amelia Rose Earhart stopped at EBACE 2014, the annual European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition, this week in Switzerland, one month before she takes off from Oakland, Calif., on The Amelia Project, attempting an aerial circumnavigation of the earth that her namesake never completed. Unlike her namesake, she will be flying a modern Pilatus PC-12 NG single-engine turboprop equipped with […]

On This Day in Aviation History

1909 – French Paul Tissandier sets the first world airspeed record with a Wright biplane by achieving 34 mph. 1925 – Birth of Alexei Andreyevich Tupolev (son of famed Soviet aircraft pioneer, Andrei Tupolev), Soviet aircraft designer who led the development of the first supersonic passenger jet, the failed Tupolev Tu-144; he also helped design […]

Honda Unveils Production Version of Biz Jet

The HondaJet aircraft remains on pace for its long-awaited debut in the first quarter, with Honda Aircraft Co. revealing its first production model on Monday. The company announced several achievements and milestones for the jet at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland. HondaJet is a light business jet designed to carry […]