aviation - the past, present and future of flight

building a world-class airline to complement the railway and shipping divisions. Among the aircraft types operated by the carrie ...

improving picture led to two additional DC-8- 43s being ordered. The Bristol Britannia was retired in 1966 and the DC-8 operated ...

services on the Montreal-Toronto-Windsor and Vancouver-Calgary-Edmonton routes. At that time, it had 9% of the Canadian market, ...

age. The logo featured CPA letters in a white circle above the stylized goose, over a red chevron on the tail. Double red cheatl ...

Olympic Games increasing European traffic to Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. By the late 1970s, CP’s international routes had expa ...

W ith the RAF Shackleton AEW.2s of 8 Squadron nearing the end of their service the unit wanted to host a spectacular event. A pi ...

were in the Alliance and where they were based, so that an official invitation could be issued. The writer of this article had, ...

as the Tristar, VC10 K.2 and Victor K.2, rubbing shoulders with a 63 Sqn Hawk, 1 FTS Bulldog T.1 and locally based Jaguar GR.1A ...

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T oulouse-Blagnac Airport is home to the production facility of Avions de Transport Régional (ATR), which has been making turbop ...

high models (ATR 72-211/212) followed, with more powerful PW127 turboprops replacing the earlier variants’ PW124Bs. ATRs were us ...

designed to ensure greater knee clearance; new side panels; and wider overhead bins with sliding doors. Although created for the ...

while cabin windows were plugged and an enhanced smoke detection system installed. In September 2005, M7 received a Federal Avia ...

regional operator Air Nostrum. Since 2012, orders have favoured the larger ATR 72. A net total of 50 ATR 42-600s were ordered fr ...

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I n December 1959 the Netherlands Ministry of Defence announced its decision to purchase the Lockheed F-104G Star ghter. Produc ...

recognisable by a small fuselage protrusion under the nose. From the mid-1960s the overall grey paint scheme was very gradually ...

and it climbed like a homesick angel. We were levelling out at 10,000ft before I knew what had happened.” Hans explained one of ...

until the end of his military flying career in late 1979. He performed at 112 airshows, including UK appearances at Finningley, ...

air, although I already had one hand going towards the ejector handle if necessary. The whole thing probably lasted 15 seconds b ...