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Australia Orders 40 UH-60M Black Hawks From Sikorsky
Australia will acquire 40 Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawks, which are designed and manufactured by Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company. The...
Garth Calitz
Feb 8, 20232 min read


New Equipment will Enhance Royal Air Force Search and Rescue capabilities
An RAF Poseidon MRA1 maritime patrol aircraft has successfully deployed Search and Rescue equipment capable of sustaining up to 100...
Garth Calitz
Feb 8, 20232 min read


South African Airforce Prestige Parade – Celebrating 103 years
The South African Airforce Celebrated its 103rd Birthday on Friday 27 January, the SAAF was officially formed on 1 February 1920 making...
Garth Calitz
Feb 1, 20234 min read


EAA Chapter 322 Kitty Hawk Breakfast Fly-in
By Andre Venter and Neil Bowden Kitty Hawk Aerodrome situated just outside Pretoria must be one the most welcoming airfields anywhere in...
Garth Calitz
Feb 1, 20232 min read


ZeroAvia Flys the World’s Largest Aircraft Powered by a Hydrogen-Electric Engine
Zero-emission flight took a giant step forward last week with ZeroAvia flying the largest aircraft in the world to be powered by a...
Garth Calitz
Feb 1, 20234 min read


Enstrom Helicopter First Flight - Since Reopening
Helicopter lovers from all over the world are very excited by the announcement by Enstrom regarding the flight of the first new 480B...
Garth Calitz
Feb 1, 20232 min read


Boeing Awarded US Air Force Contract for 15 KC-46A Tankers
The US Air Force has awarded Boeing a $2.3 billion contract for the ninth production lot of 15 KC-46A Pegasus tanker aircraft, expanding...
Garth Calitz
Feb 1, 20232 min read


English Electric Canberra Altitude Record 1957
On 28 August 1957 Michael Randrup, Chief Test Pilot of D. Napier and Son, Ltd., and Walter Shirley, Deputy Chief Engineer, climb into the...
Garth Calitz
Feb 1, 20235 min read


Boeing Selected for NASA Sustainable Flight Demonstrator Award
NASA has selected Boeing and its industry team to lead the development and flight testing of a full-scale Transonic Truss-Braced Wing...
Garth Calitz
Jan 24, 20232 min read


Sikorsky Delivers 5,000th “Hawk,” Highlights Versatility And Future Of Iconic Helicopter
Sikorsky delivered its 5,000th “Hawk” variant helicopter, a US Army UH-60M Black Hawk. The iconic aircraft will continue to support...
Garth Calitz
Jan 24, 20232 min read


CubCrafters to Build New Aircraft for US Department of Agriculture
CubCrafters, the designer and manufacturer of Light-Sport, Experimental, and Part 23 Certified back-country aircraft, announced recently...
Garth Calitz
Jan 24, 20232 min read


Friendly Fire Incident that Almost Changed History
The course of South Africa, and maybe even World history was almost changed on 31 October 1940. SAAF 2 Squadron Hawker Furies were...
Garth Calitz
Jan 24, 20232 min read


Embraer’s Phenom 300MED Receives FAA and EASA Certification
The Phenom 300MED has received the Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European...
Garth Calitz
Jan 24, 20233 min read


Airbus Finalises JUICE Ready for its Mission to Jupiter
The Airbus-built JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission) spacecraft will shortly leave Toulouse, France, for Kourou, French Guiana,...
Garth Calitz
Jan 24, 20232 min read


Beechcraft Bonanza, Is the "Doctor killer" Tag Warranted
The V-tail design gained a reputation as the "forked-tail doctor killer", due to crashes by overconfident wealthy amateur pilots, fatal...
Garth Calitz
Jan 17, 20234 min read


Textron Aviation Delivers 3,000TH Cessna Caravan
Textron Aviation has delivered a Cessna Grand Caravan EX to Brazilian aviation company Azul Conecta, a subsidiary of Azul Airlines based...
Garth Calitz
Jan 17, 20233 min read


Canada Announces The Procurement Of The F-35 Lightning II
The Government of Canada announced today it is procuring Lockheed Martin's 5th Generation F-35 Lightning II aircraft as a result of the...
Garth Calitz
Jan 17, 20232 min read


Lockheed Martin-Sikorsky and Boeing Protest the Army’s FLRAA Selection
Despite a delay stemming from the Army source-selection board’s self-audit of its choice of Bell’s V-280 Valour as its Future Long Range...
Garth Calitz
Jan 17, 20233 min read


China's C919 Jet Obtains Milestone Certificate for Commercial Flight
The COMAC C919, China's first home-grown large jet airliner, has obtained the type certificate, a milestone step on its journey to market...
Garth Calitz
Jan 17, 20232 min read


Airbus Tests New Technologies to Enhance Pilot Assistance
Airbus UpNext has started testing new, on-ground and in-flight, pilot assistance technologies on an A350-1000 test aircraft. Known as...
Garth Calitz
Jan 17, 20232 min read


ERCO Ercoupe – The Worlds First Unspinable Aircraft
The ERCO Ercoupe is an American low-wing monoplane aircraft that was first flown in 1937. It was originally manufactured by the...
Garth Calitz
Jan 10, 20237 min read


Bose A-20 Headset – Leaps Ahead of the Competition
By Garth Calitz I am a very active aviation photographer and spend many hours in one aircraft taking photographs of another aircraft, up...
Garth Calitz
Jan 10, 20233 min read


Is General Aviation Safe?
By Garth Calitz A question often asked by prospective flight students and their families is “Is flying Safe?” sadly they are often fed...
Garth Calitz
Jan 10, 20234 min read


Will a second Antonov An-225 Mriya be Built?
The An-225 remains the world's heaviest and largest aircraft ever built, capable of carrying nearly 250 tons of cargo. The sole An-225...
Garth Calitz
Jan 10, 20234 min read
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