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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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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11th July 2022.Reading time 6 minutes.
Thanks to our focus on educational subjects, UIG has enjoyed a long and successful partnership with Encyclopaedia Britannica, helping them curate and manage the Image Quest online educational image database, a global product that is offered to individual schools, educational authorities, and ministries. The product is licensed under a subscription model and students and teachers access […]
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20th September 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.
Physics is the science that deals with the physical properties and composition of matter and energy, and the physical processes and phenomena of a particular system. Physics, to many, may seem difficult to understand or relate to, but evidence of the study of physics are all around us and impact our lives daily. We see physics […]
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