Tag: aviation

Goodbye to the Queen of the Skies

13th February 2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

Nearly 54 years after the first Boeing 747 left the factory floor, the storied history of the “Queen of the Skies” came to an end on Tuesday, January 31 as the last 747 Boeing will ever make was entered into service.  The delivery of this final 747 marked an end to the extraordinary life of the […]

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Yeager breaks sound barrier!

10th October 2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

Seventy-five years ago the sound barrier was broken by Chuck Yeager. It is October 14, 1947, over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California. A former WW2 flight officer named Chuck Yeager (1923-2020), a test pilot with the US Air Force sitting at the controls of a Bell X-1 rocket plane drops from the modified bomb bay […]

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