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Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanicalflight and theaircraft industry.Aircraft includefixed-wing androtary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well aslighter-than-air aircraft such ashot air balloons andairships.
Aviation began in the 18th century with the development of thehot air balloon, an apparatus capable of atmospheric displacement throughbuoyancy. Clément Ader built the "Ader Éole" in France and made an uncontrolled, powered hop in 1890. This was the first powered aircraft, although it did not achieve controlled flight. Some of the most significant advancements in aviation technology came with the controlled gliding flying ofOtto Lilienthal in 1896. A major leap followed with the construction of theWright Flyer, the first poweredairplane by theWright brothers in the early 1900s.
Since that time, aviation has been technologically revolutionized by the introduction of the jet engine which enabled aviation to become a major form of transport throughout the world. In 2024, there were 9.5 billion passengers worldwide according to theICAO. As of 2018, estimates suggest that 11% of the world's population traveled by air, with up to 4% taking international flights. (Full article...)
...thatBritish Airways unveiled anew corporate identity in1997 which involved repainting its fleet with around 20 daring tailfin designs by world artists?...that on May 3, 2002 a militaryMiG-21bis aircraftcrashed into the Bank of Rajasthan inIndia, killing eight?... that to open the swing door on theGeneral Aircraft Hamilcarglider and allow vehicles to emerge,pilots had to climb out of the glider'scockpit and slide down 15 feet offuselage?
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The ReverendJohn Flynn (25 November 1880 – 5 May 1951) was anAustralianPresbyterianminister and aviator who founded theRoyal Flying Doctor Service, the world's firstair ambulance.
Throughout his ministerial training, Flynn had worked in various then-remote areas through Victoria andSouth Australia. As well as tending to matters spiritual, Flynn quickly established the need for medical care for residents of the vastAustralian outback, and established a number of bush hospitals. By1917, Flynn was already considering the possibility of new technology, such as radio and the aeroplane, to assist in providing a more useful acute medical service, and then received a letter from an Australian pilot serving inWorld War I,Clifford Peel, who had heard of Flynn's speculations and outlined the capabilities and costs of then-available planes. Flynn turned his considerable fund-raising talents to the task of establishing a flying medical service.
The first flight of the Aerial Medical Service was in1928 fromCloncurry. In1934 the Australian Aerial Medical Service was formed, and gradually established a network of bases nationwide. Flynn remained the public face of the organisation (through name changes to its present form) and helped raise the funds that kept the service operating.
TheYakovlev Yak-42 is a line of tri-jetaircraft produced by the aircraft companyYakolev. The Yak 42 was produced from 1980-2003.
Historically, the yak-42 was competition for older Russian aircraft companies. The Yak-42 was only made in one passenger variant, but it was used in many tests of equipment.
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