The story of a Soviet gun that kept destroying its own aircraft
Everybody knows the GAU-8 Avenger, the famous 30-millimeter rotary cannon mounted on the American A-10 attack aircraft. A…
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The time when India had dancing elephant helicopters
The exact date is difficult to pinpoint. Some claim that the legend of India’s ‘dancing elephant helicopters’ started…
Sixty years ago Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space
Exactly sixty years ago, the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history by becoming the first human in space.On…
The special meaning behind Air France flights AF401 & AF229
Air France operated two celebratory flights AF401 and AF229 to make a nod to a special event in…
Would the Russian flying saucer actually work? | EKIP Part 4
Through the 80s and 90s, Lev Nikolayevich Schukin and his team of engineers tried to develop and sell an…
Secret story of EKIP, the Soviet flying saucer | Part 1
At one point in history there was an aircraft that could take off and land without an airport,…
How Russians tried to sell a flying saucer | EKIP Part 2
In the late 70s Soviet engineer Lev Nikolayevich Schukin came up with an idea for an aircraft of…
What is left of the Russian flying saucer? | EKIP Part 3
EKIP was a project to develop an aircraft with some wondrous properties: a saucer-like flying wing that would…
Supersonic Throwback: Concorde takes off for first test flight
This article was originally written and published by AeroTime News on March 2, 1969.On March 2, 1969, the…
Burnelli lifting fuselage & 100-year-old conspiracy theory
Here and there on the Internet one can find claims that there is a better way to design…
WW2 female pilot Eleanor Wadsworth dies aged 103
Eleanor Wadsworth was one of the last women to have served in the Air Transport Auxiliary of the…
Looking back at iconic Boeing 747 liveries | Best of 2020
Possibly, there is no other aircraft that has become such an icon of the aviation industry. There is…
Passenger fighter jets: craziest airliners to never fly | Best of 2020
Turning fighter jets into airliners seems crazy. Yet, it was tried many times, with manufacturers striving to put…
Tupolev Tu-404: the biggest airliner ever designed | Best of 2020
Close your eyes and imagine the biggest passenger aircraft you can. Airbus A380, right? Now triple its size,…
Post-Soviet wide-body Neverland. Part 1: Twinjets
There is a reason why wide-body airliners have an aura of prestige around them. Many of them offer…
Post-Soviet wide-body Neverland. Part 2: Superjumbos
The logic behind the design of larger and larger airplanes was solid. Hub-and-spoke model was proven and effective,…
