An interesting article appeared in the Southern Daily Echo regional newspaper yesterday, about a Britten-Norman Trislander joining the collection at the Solent Sky museum in Southampton Iconic Trislander at Solent Sky Museum in Southampton What struck me was some of the slightly mean-minded comments about the Trislander,...
We are supposedly on the brink of an aviation revolution and the general public have little idea what’s about to happen. The moment is soon coming when the aviation technologies that many people are vaguely aware off, actually transition into the real thing. When people see an...
This is an interesting tale. A Fokker D.VII fighter aircraft is being returned to the Netherlands where it will go on display at the National Military Museum, Soesterberg. The biplane was designed during the First World War, and went into service with the Dutch Fleet Air Arm...
There’s more to this weird box-frame aeroplane than you would imagine. Over 1500 were produced by the Caudron brothers, René and Gaston, in their factory at Le Crotoy on the eastern side of the Somme estuary, from 1913 onward. And it proved to be, despite appearances, tough,...
United have signed a deal with SpaceX to bring the Starlink Wi-Fi service to the airline’s mainline and regional aircraft fleet, for free. United customers will enjoy the same high-speed, low-latency internet service in the air that they enjoy on the ground. The new, gate-to-gate connectivity will...
You could say, the Newark Aviation Museum is having a bit of a lie down! The museum has just been loaned the extraordinary Gloster Meteor F8 Prone, which has been on display at the RAF Museum, Cosford* for many years. The Meteor F8 Prone was built in...
United Airlines now texts customers flying in the USA links to local, live radar maps during weather delays, in an effort to give travellers as much real-time information as possible about their trip, especially if things don’t go as planned. For the past few years, the airline...
American Airlines have announced that it has entered into a conditional purchase agreement with clean aviation innovator ZeroAvia for 100 hydrogen-electric engines intended to power regional jet aircraft with zero in flight emissions except for water vapor. ZeroAvia is developing hydrogen-electric (fuel cell-powered) engines for commercial aircraft,...
Zipline, a company specialising in autonomous drone delivery systems, announced on Friday that it had just completed one million paid commercial drone deliveries to customers. The company, headquartered San Francisco, has developed and operates its own autonomous drones which have now flown more than 70 million commercial...
The Air & Space Museum (Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace), sprawled around the magnificent art deco terminal building at Paris’ former passenger airport, Le Bourget, is France’s premier aviation museum. It’s huge, and well worth the journey to the outskirts of Paris to visit. Only, make...
The Laatzen-Hanover Aviation Museum (Laatzen-Hannover Luftfahrt Museum), to give it its full name, is not a huge museum but it’s a really interesting aviation museum and it packs a lot – some 4,000+ artefacts – into its 3,500 m² of display space. The museum was founded by...
A World War II Vickers Wellington bomber has been restored to its former glory after 12½ years of conservation at the Royal Air Force Museum Midlands (Cosford)*. The Wellington, one of only two remaining in the UK (the other is at Brooklands Museum), was finally moved last...
Remember those times when you had to dust the Airfix models suspended from your bedroom ceiling, without breaking anything or dislodging them and sending them plummeting to the floor? Well, at it’s pretty much the same thing at the RAF Museum Midlands (Cosford)… only on a larger...
Bicester Heritage’s Flywheel, a 2-day festival of classic vehicles and historic aircraft, will have a special visitor this year. The sole-surviving airworthy Bristol Blenheim L6739 will be leading the aviation display on their grass airfield. Bicester Heritage is a collection of 50 different businesses specialising in historic...
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