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Naval Aviation Museum Expecting Big Year

With the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels flying again, the National Naval Aviation Museum in Florida is expecting attendance in 2014 to top 800,000, and to regain momentum lost during last year’s federal budget cutbacks. Encouraged by the roaring start to the Blues season and early-morning crowds that accompanied the flight demonstration team’s first Pensacola public […]

On This Day in Aviation History

1897 – Birth of Thomas Vicars “Sticky” Hunter, British World War I flying ace. 1937 – Swedish airplane manufacturer Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (SAAB) is established in Trollhättan, Sweden. 1947 – First flight of the Convair XB-46 (shown), an American experimental medium jet bomber; only one was built before the program was cancelled. 1954 – Death […]

Aussie Wedgetail Part of Flight 370 Search

By The Associated Press Australia is deploying a modified Boeing 737 to act as a flying air traffic controller over the Indian Ocean to prevent a mid-air collision among the large number of aircraft searching for the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that went missing more than three weeks ago. According to an Australian government briefing note read out to The Associated Press by […]

Blue Angels to Return to Indiana Air Show

The U.S. Navy’s flagship aerobatic squadron, the Blue Angels, is set to return to Evansville, Ind., in 2015 — a decade after last performing here during the 2005 Freedom Festival. Hadi Shriners spokesman Dale Thomas said the club set to have the Blue Angels at the 2015 Evansville ShrinersFest. According to the Blue Angels website, the […]

ANA Operates Last Passenger 747 in Japan

Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) formally retired its Boeing 747 aircraft, marking a key milestone in the type’s gradual disappearance from the world’s airliner fleet. The widebody, which was a domestic variant of the 747-400, operated its last flight, Flight 126, on the Tokyo Haneda-Okinawa route, says an ANA spokesman. The particular aircraft bears the registration JA8961. The retirement […]

On This Day in Aviation History

1918 – Death of Fred Everest Banbury, Canadian World War I flying ace. 1920 – Birth of Cesare Di Bert, Italian World War II fighter pilot. 1931 – Charles William Anderson Scott takes off in his DH.60 Moth from Lympne for an England–Australia solo flight record to Darwin. 1940 – First flight of the Grumman […]

On This Day in Aviation History

1912 – The world’s first hydroplane competitions are held in Monaco; Belgian Jules Fisher is the overall winner. He is one of only two non-French pilots of the eight starters and flies a Henry Farman machine. 1931 – TWA Flight 599, a Fokker F.10 Trimotor, crashes near Bazaar, Kan., killing all eight aboard, including University of Notre Dame […]

Unidentified Jet Seen Over Southwest U.S.

The identity of what appears to be a blended wing-body aircraft type photographed over Amarillo, Texas, on March 10 remains uncertain, with the U.S. Air Force declining any comment on the aircraft. Three aircraft were observed flying in formation southwest of Amarillo around 4:20 p.m. CDT, by photographers on the fence line of the city’s […]

RAF Retires Pair of Tornado Squadrons

A phased reduction of the Royal Air Force’s fleet of Panavia Tornado GR4 strike aircraft has taken its latest step, with two frontline units having been stood down on Friday. The service’s 12 and 617 squadrons ceased operations with a disbandment ceremony conducted at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland, which from mid-2014 will instead become home to its Eurofighter Typhoon-equipped 1 […]

Delta Makes First-Ever Jet Donation

A ceremony on Friday thanked Delta Air Lines for donating a jet to Montana’s Helena Regional Airport that will be used to train emergency responders nationwide and from foreign countries. The Bombardier CRJ aircraft, a 50-passenger regional jet that’s typically used to link Montana cities and ferry passengers to airline hubs in the West, is […]