Author: Mark Pearson

In February of 1941 The first flight by a British RAF Flying Boat through the “Donegal Corridor” Between the neutral Republic of Ireland airspace between its base in Northern Ireland and the Atlantic Ocean, a concession secretly agreed by the Prime Minister. In 1923, the first successful commercial flying boat service was introduced with flights to […]

When NASA’s Perseverance rover touches down next week, it will carry one of the strangest devices ever seen on Mars — a drone destined to make the first controlled flights on an extraterrestrial planet. Dubbed “Ingenuity,” the drone weighs just 4 pounds, and it will stay stored beneath the rover’s belly while Perseverance runs through […]