Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, the founder of the de Havilland World Enterprise, one of the first global manufacturing companies, was one of...

South African Airways was formed on 1 February 1934 following the acquisition of Union Airways by the South African government. Forty...

Charlie Taylor was born in a log cabin on May 24, 1868, in Cerro Gordo, Illinois to William Stephen Taylor and Mary Jane Germain. Taylor...

Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager stepped inside the Bell X-1, 73years ago on the 14th October 1947, when he stepped out he carried the title...

It is common knowledge that the field of aviation was pioneered in the US when Orville Wright achieved the first powered flight on 17...

by Alex Hollings Kelly Johnson wasn’t the first man to build an aircraft. Nor was he the first to push the limits of what an aircraft...

On the night of November 11-12, 1940, the Royal Navy launched twenty-one obsolescent Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers from the...

Qantas has announced a program of events to farewell it's last remaining Boeing 747 and provide Australians with the opportunity to say...

In 1992, just a year after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Maj.- Gen. (res.) David Ivri, then-director- general of the Defence...

Modern gliders are very complex machines designed for recreational flying and competitions but not many are aware of the role played by...