A retirement ceremony at 17 Wing Winnipeg marks the conclusion of the CC-130H Hercules’ military service, honouring an aircraft that became an enduring symbol of…
How a chartered aircraft carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes, leaving survivors trapped in the mountains for 72 days and confronting them…
More than fifty years before the Wright brothers achieved powered airplane flight, French engineer Henri Giffard demonstrated that a steam-powered aircraft could travel through the…
By Open Chronicle History Desk On September 15, 1940, hundreds of German aircraft crossed the English Channel and headed towards southern England. Their objective was…
By Open Chronicle A fourth-generation fighter is a broad classification of jet combat aircraft whose design philosophy emerged primarily during the 1970s and whose operational…
General Dynamics YF-16 prototype in flight over Edwards Air Force Base, California, during the aircraft’s early flight test programme in 1974. Courtesy U.S. Air Force.…
