ICAO is the main body for regulation in aviation and a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is funded and directed by 193 national governments to support their diplomacy and cooperation in air transport as signatory states to the 1944 Chicago Convention. ICAO coordinates the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters…
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Airport security after 9/11
Most of us don’t know how easy it was for people to arrive at the gate of the airports before the 11th of September 2001, as you could just arrive some minutes before your flight. Nowadays, you have to wait many minutes, if not hours, in line at the security check before boarding. It was…
A gun with a plane
If you ask any US veteran how angels sound like, the answer would look more like a BRTTTT!!! than any Tik-Tok trending music. And that’s what you get when you put wings around a car-like sized gatling cannon. That’s what Fairchild Republic had in mind when the A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog for the friends) was…
Updated avionics
Nowadays, avionics has evolved a lot since the beginning of aviation and is trying to keep up with the technology around us, although it is subjected to much stricter regulations. World War I brought an urgent need for communications. Voice communications from ground to air and from aircraft to aircraft were established. Also, more instruments…
Electric aviation is coming
With the European Union setting the objective to have climate neutrality with air transport by 2050, an alliance with aerospace companies have been launched to develop zero-emission aircrafts. In particular, the aerospace sector will prepare for the introduction of electric- and hydrogen-powered aircrafts. Airbus, the biggest aeronautical company in Europe, has already started the effort…
The real story behind Top Gun
It is August 1981, and the United States Navy’s Sixth Fleet is conducting real fire exercises in the Gulf of Sirte because some years before, in 1973, Muammar al-Gaddafi had claimed this sea zone as a Libyan territory with the opposition of the US and most of the European countries in a movement that could…
Sorry, we didn’t know it was invisible!
It is March 27th, 1999 the quiet nightfall in the Serbian countryside near Buđanovci gets broken by the thunderous screech of the NATO aircrafts descending from the North, in fact, those nights in the former Yugoslavian Federal Republic are everything except quiet: the NATO has been bombing the country for three days. Covered by their…
Antonov An-225 Mriya
Until not so long ago, it was the largest airplane in the world, it flew all over the world and it was loved by every aviation enthusiast. Its name translates as ‘dream’ and it was originally built in order to carry the soviet Buran-class orbiters. It was developed during the 1980s in Soviet Ukraine by…
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
Evolution is constant, slowly but unstoppable, species are born and extinct, same happens to aviation technology in a faster way. But as it happens to animals, you can find specimens that belong to cretacic eras but somehow are still alive in plein 2022, in terms of comparison; we are going to talk about the tyrannosaurus…
What is the matter with aircraft and 5G?
As you may know, in the last weeks you’ve probably seen talk of 5g networks interfering with planes in the US. Earlier this year some companies like Emirates, Air India, All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, Lufthansa and British Airways all announced changes to some flights, citing uncertainty about potential interference between new 5G cell phone…