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How Rolls-Royce powered two daredevil aviators into the record books?

Derby. 14 June 2019. On June 14th 1919, British pilots John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown set out from St. John’s, Newfoundland, on a journey that would change…Read more ›

Tagged with: Arthur Whitten Brown, British pilots John Alcock, daredevil aviators, Eric Platford, Great War, Henry Royce, Rolls Royce, St.John’s, World War I

British Army landed in Falkland Islands today

New Delhi. 21 May 2019. Today in contemporary war history is the day when the British troops landed in Falkland Islands in 1982. During the night of 21…Read more ›

Tagged with: Ajax Bay, Amphibious Warfare, Anti-Aircraft Artillery, Argentine Air Force, Blue Beach, Bomb Alley, Brigadier Julian Thompson, British Amphibious Task Group, British Army, British forces, British Sea Harriers, COMAW, Commando Royal Marines, Commodore Michael Clapp, Contemporary Falkland Islanders, East Falkland, Falkland islands, Green Beach, mexeflote barges, MV Atlantic Conveyor, Parachute Regiment (, Port San Carlos, Port Stanley, Rapier missile launchers, Red Beach, RFA Stromness, RORO ferry Norland, Round Table class LSL, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, San Carlos, San Carlos Bay, San Carlos Water, Sea Kings, ship HMS Fearless, SS Canberra

Igor Sikorsky flew the first four engine aircraft.

New Delhi. 13 May 2019. Today is the day Aviation Pioneer and Father of Helicopters Igor Sikorsky flew the first four engine aircraft . The Sikorsky Russky Vityaz…Read more ›

Tagged with: Aviation Pioneer, Bolshoi Baltisky, first four engine aircraft, Igor Sikorsky, Ilya Muromets, R-BVZ, Russian Baltic Railroad Car Works, Russian Knight, Russky Vityaz, Russo-Baltiiskyi Vagonnyi Zavod, Saint Petersburg

Russia’s Saratov has dangerous chemical weapons inherited from erstwhile USSR

As per AP Archives story published on July 21, 2015 Russia’s Saratov Army Base is a time bomb containing around one-and-a-half-thousand tonnes of dangerously deteriorating chemical weapons. Russia…Read more ›

Tagged with: Biological Weapons, chemical weapons, Conventional Problems, dangerous chemical weapons inherited, erstwhile USSR, international accords, Russia’s Saratov, Russia’s Saratov Army Base, Soviet Union

Bombay was given to Britain as a dowry by Portugal

27th March in 1668 was the day England took control of Bombay, India. The Royal Charter of 27 March 1668 was an agreement between the Kingdom of England and the English…Read more ›

Tagged with: Bahadur Shah, English East India Company, Gujarat Sultanate, King Charles II, Roman Catholic religious, Royal Charter

Wright Brothers Patent on aircraft resulted into a great patent war

On 23rd March 1903 brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright applied for a patent on their method of control of their glider. During their experiments of 1902 the Wrights…Read more ›

Tagged with: Aero Club of America, Aircraft Association, aircraft manufacturers, American aircraft, American-designed aircraft, European lawsuits, Flying Machine, French airplanes, Glenn Curtiss, Glenn L. Martin, great patent war, Henry Toulmin, long legal conflict, patent war, U.S. Circuit Court, U.S. forces, Wilbur and Orville Wright, World War I, Wright Brothers, Wright-Martin Corporation

Why India-Bangladesh Treaty of Friendship, Peace & Cooperation never got renewed?

The India-Bangladesh Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Peace was a 25-year treaty that was signed on 19 March 1972 forging close bilateral relations between India and the newly…Read more ›

Tagged with: India-Bangladesh Treaty, Indira Gandhi, Indira-Mujib Treaty, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Charles Lindbergh’s son was kidnapped & killed

The month of March in 1932 began on a bad note for Charles Lindbergh, the pioneer aviator. He was at home in New Jersey with his wife, Anne,…Read more ›

Tagged with: Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Charles Jr. kidnapped, Charles Jr. killed, Charles Lindbergh, New Jersey, pioneer aviator