20 May 1932, five years to the day after Charles Lindbergh took off on his historic first solo flight across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland. While her original destination was France, weather and mechanical problems force her to land in Ireland nearly 15 hours after she took off. She become the first woman and second person […]
During Singapore’s air show that closed this weekend, aircraft manufacturer Airbus showed off a miniature model of an aircraft in which the entire aircraft is a wing, a design known as the “Blended Wing Body” (BWB) or hybrid wing. Jean-Brice Dumont, EVP Engineering Airbus, said in an Airbus press release: “Airbus is leveraging emerging technologies […]
