Author: Adventures in History
Last weekend, two Cuban pilots fled the communist country and landed in Key West, Florida, aboard a microlight aircraft used for tourist services on the beaches near Havana. The flight was denounced as a “violation of Cuban airspace” and “theft” of equipment from the Cuban Aviation Club, which transmitted “to the competent international authorities its disagreement with acts like these” . The pair departed at 8:05 am on Saturday morning from the coast of Havana, and were detained and taken into custody by the US Border Patrol shortly after landing in Florida, 145 kilometers from where they had left. The air getaway is…
The largest commercial airliner ever made in the world, the Antonov An-225 Mriya, has just been released for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The project was possible thanks to the coordinated and intense work carried out with the Microsoft Flight Simulator team, together with the project team from the Antonov company, with the support of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, and, of course, the support and expertise of the pilots and engineers from the manufacturer and airline, who helped make the aircraft’s behavior more realistic. AN-225 crew chief pilot Dmytro Antonov, pilots Kyrylo Volegov and Eygen Bashynskyi, and navigator Serhiy Nechaev had…
In an unprecedented address to the nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this Wednesday (21) that he will call up about 300,000 reserve citizens of age to join Russian troops in Ukraine and has made nuclear threats to the West . In his speech, unprecedented since the start of the Ukrainian war in February, Putin also said he had indefinitely extended the contracts of soldiers already fighting in the neighboring country and also announced increased spending on weapons production and made nuclear threats. “It’s not a bluff,” the Russian leader declared. “(…) Our country has several means of destruction, some of which are more modern than those of NATO…
O Exército de Libertação do Povo Chinês ELPC, está enviando tropas para a Rússia para participar de exercícios militares conjuntos no final deste mês, revelaram relatórios nesta semana. As tropas do ELPC irão para a Rússia para participar de seus exercícios militares “Vostok”, informou a Reuters na quarta-feira. Os militares russos também estão recebendo Índia, Bielorrússia, Mongólia, Tadjiquistão e outros países durante os exercícios, que ocorrerão de 30 de agosto a 5 de setembro. A China não participa dos exercícios Vostok da Rússia desde 2018. Os exercícios conjuntos refletem as crescentes relações diplomáticas e cooperação militar da Rússia e da China. O…
On July 18, a Jubba Airways Fokker 50 flipped over when landing at Mogadishu Aden Abdulle International Airport, in Somalia. And this week security camera footage was published, showing the awkward landing that led to the plane’s capsizing. You can check it out in the video below: https://twitter.com/DalsanTv/status/1551952254395088898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1551952254395088898%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aeroflap.com.br%2Fimagens-de-camera-de-seguranca-mostra-acidente-em-pouso-de-fokker-50%2F As we can see from the photos, the plane left the runway and was “upside down”, where the wings were broken, starting a localized fire, which was controlled by firefighters on the spot. The Jubba Airways plane was flying from Baidoa to Mogadishu (Somalia) with 36 people on board. The company confirmed the accident, and said all…
A severe storm damaged about nine military helicopters at the US Navy’s Naval Air Station Norfolk last Tuesday (26). Despite the damage, no one was injured. Images of MH-53 Sea Dragon and MH-60 Seahawk/Knighthawk helicopters are circulating on social media in the courtyard of the naval base. The force of the winds was enough to “knock down” three MH-60s and one MH-53E, the latter being one of the largest and heaviest helicopters in the US fleet. https://twitter.com/clemente3000/status/1552513049386426368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1552513049386426368%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aeroflap.com.br%2Ftempestade-tomba-helicopteros-em-base-da-marinha-dos-eua%2F According to information from the local channel WAVY , the damage ranges from broken rotor blades to punctures and dents in the fuselage. “The Navy continues…
Although the Russian armed forces had already left the Gostomel airport, northwest of Kiev, a few months ago, the current scenario is still desolate. With much of its structure affected and emblematic aircraft destroyed, the place remains as a symbol of the ills brought by the war. To show how the airport currently stands, which is also the main operational headquarters of Antonov Airlines, the team from the Czech website Fly Rosta toured the facility inside and out, resulting in a detailed video posted on their social media (available at the end of this post ). Among other things, the area where the Antonov AN-225…
After a two-year hiatus, Brussels Airlines has finally returned to bringing nearly 25,000 ‘festivalers’ from over 130 nationalities to the world’s biggest electronic music festival, Tomorrowland in Boom , Belgium. Since last Wednesday (13), more than 175 flights have departed from 69 different airports to Brussels airport, where passengers will already feel the rhythm of the festival thanks to the DJ sets, among others that will play on arrival. The company sold around 13,000 flight packages for the party. Party on board and at the airport In all, ten flights will be transformed into exclusive onboard experiences with live DJ at an altitude…
Ryanair reported that it achieved the best month in its history in terms of number of passengers carried, with a total of 15.9 million travelers and an average aircraft load factor of 95%. This represents an increase of 203% compared to the same month of the previous year, still in the midst of critical moments of the pandemic. The airline, Europe’s biggest by passenger numbers (but not by fleet, behind Lufthansa), said it operated more than 88,500 flights in June. In addition, it expects to carry 15% more passengers this summer than the same season in 2019 (before the pandemic) and which…
The day has come for which ITA Airways – or rather, the Italian government – was looking forward to, as the deadline for submitting binding offers from companies interested in taking over the successor of Alitalia ended at midnight on July 6 , reports the Aviationline . A lot has happened since Alitalia closed its doors and the brand new ITA continued the business, in October of last year, still in the midst of a scenario complicated by the company’s pressing economic reality, the pandemic and, later, the war in Ukraine and the soaring price of fuel. A big challenge for sure. The offers The…