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On November 3, 1950, Air India Flight 245 crashed on the west side of Mont Blanc, killing all 48 people on board.&n ...
On November 3 1957, Laika, a 3-year-old female dog, died in Earth orbit, confined in a small capsule named&nbs ...
The iconic British Airways Concorde made its final commercial flight on October 24, 2003. ...
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On Sept. 30, 1968, the first Boeing 747 rolled out of its custom-built assembly plant in Everett, Washington. From the b ...
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The launch of the Zephyr aircraft by Airbus could mark the start of a new era of continuous flight. What made this possi ...
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On September 4, 1949, prototype Bristol Brabazon Mk.I, G-AGPW, made its first flight at Bristol Filton Aerodrome (UK).&n ...
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On August 28, 1961, Lieutenants Huntington Hardisty and Earl De Esch, US Navy, flew a McDonnell F4H-1F Phantom II t...
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On August 15, 1962, American Airlines’ Captain Eugene M. Kruse set a National Aeronautic Association Class C- ...
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On July 26, 1958, US Air Force test pilot Capt. Iven Kincheloe, Jr., was killed on impact when his Lockheed F-104A Starf ...
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On July 8, 1980, the prototype McDonnell Douglas F-15 Strike Eagle, a fighter-bomber variant converted from the sec...
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Operation SAGE BURNER, one of a series of record-setting flights intended to commemorate the 50th anniversary of United ...
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On April 29, 1988, Boeing test pilots James C. Loesch and Kenneth Higgins took the new Boeing 747-400, serial ...
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On January 22, 1970, Captain Robert M. Weeks and crew flew the Pan American World Airways Boeing 747-121, N73 ...
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On October 21, 1947 Northrop Corporation Chief Test Pilot Max R. Stanley took off in the first YB-49, 42-102367. ...
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Above us float extraordinary old satellites from the 1950s and 1960s, orbiting at speeds of 7-8 kilometres per second. T...
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The first ever non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean arrived at Mines Field (now, LAX) at 1:50 a.m., 2 ...
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On July 2, Boeing got creative with its 787 Dreamliner test plane that was scheduled to perform an 18-hour flight, shapi ...
The Sky Guys, Canadian drone technology company and Cambridge House International, will be hosting Canada's premier...
FC Bayern Basketball team will take on 2015 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague winner and many times Spanish league champions,...
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27 July 1972: McDonnell Douglas Chief Experimental Test Pilot Irving L. Burrows made the first flight of the prototype Y...
28 July 1935, At Boeing Field, Seattle, Chief Test Pilot Leslie Ralph (“Les”) Tower and Louis Waite took off...
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26 July 1958: U.S. Air Force test pilot Captain Iven Carl Kincheloe, Jr., took off from Edwards Air Force Base in Lockhe ...
Captain Kenneth D. Chandler, 11th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 343d Fighter Group (Air Defense), U.S. Air Force, won th ...
30 July 1939: Major Caleb Vance Haynes, United States Army Air Corps, with Captain William D. Old, Master Sergeant Adolp ...
Trained, experienced pilots are a necessary and key part of aviation. Since the beginning, successful pilot training has ...
31 July 1944, famed French aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte ...
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The announcement of the draft Spaceflight Bill in the Queen’s Speech will allow the development of spaceports in ...
30 June 1968: At Marietta, Georgia, the first Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transport, serial number 66-8303, took off on its mai ...
The Orion is a sub-orbital electric aircraft equipped with an air-breathing magneto-plasma jet propulsion engine that co ...
30 June 1971: The Soyuz 11 crew, Cosmonauts Georgiy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov and Viktor I ...
22 June 1962: The last of 744 Boeing B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers, B-52H-175-BW, serial number 61-0040, was rol ...
21 June 1913: Georgia Ann (“Tiny”) Broadwick (1893–1979) was the first woman to jump from an airplane ...
23 June 1913: While parked at St. Petersberg, Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky’s S-21, Русский Витязь (Russky Vityaz or &ld ...
29 June 1955: The first operational Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, RB-52B-15-BO 52-8711, was delivered to the 93rd Bombardm ...
11 June 1926: The first production Ford 4-AT-A Trimotor, serial number 4-AT-1, flew for the first time at Dearborn, Mich ...
9 June 1943: After completing 25 combat missions over Western Europe from its base at Air Force Station 121 (RAF Bassing ...
9 June 1928: At 10:50 a.m., Charles Edward Kingsford Smith, MC, AFC, and his crew completed the first trans-Pacific flig ...
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