About the editor

Michael David is an editor at Aviation.Direct and has been dealing with air traffic in Austria, especially regional airports, for over 20 years, is a passionate spotter and is active in the airport friends scene, especially as a board member for the Association of Friends of Linz Airport.
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Vogler Air Base is being modernized

As Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner announced during a visit to Vogler Air Base, substantial investments will be made in the necessary modernization of the Hörsching site over the next few years. After the Saab 105Ö was decommissioned

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Does Hercules succeed Hercules?

At the beginning of the year, Defense Minister Claudia Tanner (ÖVP) again announced an investment program for the armed forces in the coming years. Despite the enormous new national debt caused by the corona crisis, some parts of the army are to be modernized. So too

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Personal - Gábor Németh, master of the 3D airplane images

In the second edition of the new AviationDirect series “Personal”, in which we will portray interesting people from the aviation scene in the future, we are dedicated to Németh Gabor, planespotter at Vienna Airport and master of the 3 airplane pictures. AviationDirect: Gábor, in Vienna

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Vaccine transport becomes a challenge for air freight

Delivering billions of doses of vaccine against the Covid-19 virus in the coming months is likely to be the greatest humanitarian task in the history of air freight traffic to date. Vaccine manufacturers, logisticians and airlines are currently preparing meticulously in

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In person - Benjamin Radner, the 757 maniac

AviationDirect is now starting the “Personal” series, in which we will portray interesting people from the aviation scene in the future. It starts with the young boy potter Benjamin Radner from Innsbruck, who has a particular weakness for a special aircraft: namely

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Rada Airlines strengthens itself with a second Il-62

This news probably fulfills the dreams of many spotters: the Belarusian cargo airline Rada Airlines, well known in the circles of true aviation fans for the unique operation of an Ilyushin Il-62, is reactivating another copy of the legendary Russian-made aircraft

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