Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. Aircraft includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air aircraft such as hot air balloons and airships .

Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. Aircraft includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air aircraft such as hot air balloons and airships.

The Portal:Aviation will automatically show the current day's selected anniversaries as "Today in Aviation" box (see at the right).

Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. Aircraft includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air aircraft such as hot air balloons and airships .

Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. Aircraft includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air aircraft such as hot air balloons and airships .

British Airways Boeing 747-400. The Boeing 747 is a widebody commercial airliner, often referred to by the nickname Jumbo Jet.It is among the world's most recognizable aircraft, and was the first widebody ever produced.Manufactured by Boeing's Commercial Airplane unit in the United States, the original version of the 747 was two and a half times the size of the Boeing 707, one …

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2013 – The European Aviation Safety Agency endorses the Federal Aviation Administration's grounding of Boeing 787 Dreamliners. [2] By the end of the day, Dreamliners have been grounded worldwide pending investigation of the possibility of a fire hazard posed by …

1958 – Congress approves a bill creating the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) to regulate all US commercial and military aviation. 1957 – USAF Captain Joe Bailey Jordan reaches a new altitude record of 31,513 m (103,389 ft) in a Lockheed F-104C-5 …

2020 – a Lockheed C-130 Hercules airtanker operated by Coulson Aviation crashes into terrain while aerial firefighting for the New South Wales Rural Fire Service during Australia's black summer bushfires. All three crew members on board are killed in the crash.