The world-famous RKIIGA (Riga Red Banner Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers) will celebrate its 106th anniversary in May 2025. Its history started in 1919 when the School of Aviation Mechanics was opened in Kyiv, which later continued its work in Riga. The institute changed names several...
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ukraine
ukrainian people's republic of soviets
ukrainian soviet socialist republic
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%27s_third_airport
Ever since I was a little boy and saw pictures and books about London Airport grown-ups have been trying to find a replacement.
In the TV show Thunderbirds it is called London International Airport. By September 1966 the emergence of...
Hello, my first time starting a thread on here so excuse me if I did something wrong.
Between 1941 and 1945 Breguet studied a series of 3 aircraft projects of very large proportions designed to carry large quantities of passengers and freight at high altitudes. The projects were known as the...
airliner
allies
axis powers
breguet 1000 tonne transport
breguet 230 tonne transport
breguet 500 tonne transport
bréguet 850
bréguet 851
bréguet aviationcivilaviation
ministère de l'air
provisional government of the french republic
transport aircraft
vichy france
world war ii
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cly24zvvwxlt
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/21/heathrow-airport-closed-latest-news-fire-power-outage/
A right old mess, as the saying goes.
American Eagle Flight 5342, a CRJ-700, has collided with a US Army Blackhawk out of Fort Belvoir near Reagan International Airport in D.C.
Current reports say both the helicopter, and the two halves of the CRJ, are in the Potomac River.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy7kxx74yxlt
Both of these airliners were shrunk at the request of their initial customer, the Trident from 111(130?) seat Medway sized to 97 seat Spey sized and the Super 200 from a 212 seat 28' fuselage stretch to a 174 seat 13' stretch for the Super VC10.
The Super VC10 was then embroiled in a public...
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hawker siddeley aviation ltd
ministry of aviation
ministry of supply
vickers-armstrongs limited
A 737-800 flying from Thailand to Korea has run off the runway and hit a wall during a belly landing at Muan International Airport. Reported to be 173 Korean, 2 Thai passengers and 6 crew. 47 confirmed dead so far with 2 confirmed survivors (a passenger and a flight attendant). Early reports...
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ansett airlines of australia
ansett airways
ansett transport industries
ansett-ana
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cold war
commonwealth of australia
early 21st century
interwar period
late 1930s
new zealand
pacific ocean theater
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sir reginald myles ansett kbe
united states army air forces
world war ii
PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) has sold five N219 Nurtanio twin-engine aircraft to the Indonesian Setdco Group, which will be used by the Democratic Republic of Congo's government. The sale was announced before the Bali International Airshow 2024. While many Letters of Intent have been signed...
I have come across some information on the proposed VC.4 three-engined transatlantic airliner project of 1949.
Information on the VC.4 was used to demonstrate aerodynamic drag issues in a Royal Aeronautical Society lecture by E. J. Edwards on 24 November 1949 entitled A Review of Aerodynamic...
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air ministry
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k site
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lullingstone airfield
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q site
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world war ii
This story fascinates me... It shows what can be done when you have little resource but a lot of creativity...
Unfortunately, the page which I took this article from had been saved onto my computer, and doesn't seem to be only any longer.
Only one forum topic (in Russian) deals with this...
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