Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity Completes First Fully Crewed Spaceflight
MIAMI – VSS Unity, Virgin Atlantic’s fourth rocket-powered spacecraft, was successfully launched into space today fully crewed with the company’s
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Airbus Fly-By-Wire Visionary Bernard Ziegler, 1933-2021
MIAMI – Via a press release, Airbus informed today that Bernard Ziegler, former VP of engineering and fly-by-wire evangelist, passed
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Airbus Fly-by-wire Visionary Bernard Ziegler
Via a press release, Airbus informed today that Bernard Ziegler, former VP of engineering and fly-by-wire evangelist, passed away at
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Today in Aviation: PEOPLExpress Begins Operations
MIAMI – Today in Aviation, American low-cost carrier PEOPLExpress (PE) began service in 1981 with Boeing 737 flights from Newark
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Today in Aviation: Pan Am Returns to the Soviet Union
MIAMI – Today in Aviation, Pan Am returned to the Soviet Union in 1986 after eight years, using a Boeing
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Today in Aviation: First Flight of the Airbus A380
MIAMI – Today in Aviation, the Super Jumbo Airbus A380 performed its maiden flight in 2005 after three years of
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Today in Aviation: Lockheed’s L-1011 TriStar Enters Commercial Service
MIAMI – Today in Aviation, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (N301EA) enters commercial service in 1972 with Eastern Air Lines on its
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Today in Aviation: the Blackburn RT.1 Begins Passenger Flights
MIAMI – Today in Aviation, the North Sea Aerial Navigation Company starts a passenger service between Leeds and Hounslow in
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World Cancer Day Awareness
World Cancer Day is a charity initiative from the Union for International Cancer Control's (UICC).
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Airways’ Top 10 Photos of 2020
2020 was a year like no other for aviation. The industry went through mass furloughs, layoffs, aircraft storage and retirement,