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2007 Boeing launches it's newest aircraft, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
1996 John William Fozard, aircraft designer, dies at 68 1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan, 32 killed 1991 Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft 1989 Boeing B-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight 1988 A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles 1986 U.S. aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya 1984 Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed 1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan 1983 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, California 1983 Stan Rogers, musician, dies in aircraft fire 1981 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel 1981 Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists 1981 Donald W. Douglas, U.S. aircraft pioneer/builder, dies at 88 1979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hours, 49 minutes 1979 Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center 1979 Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center 1978 Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft builder, dies at 80 1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km (125,524') 1973 Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108 1972 Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder, dies at 84 1972 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk 1972 Sabena aircraft at Lod International, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians 1970 Artem Mikoyan, Russian aircraft designer (MIG), dies at 65 1970 British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed 1969 Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices U.S. destroyer "Frank E. Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam) 1969 25 members of U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers 1968 Aircraft carrier Charles Doorman sold to Argentina 1966 U.S. aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die 1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet) 1964 Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne 1960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches 1960 Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH 1960 U.S.S.R. shoots down a U.S. aircraft over Barents sea 1960 CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft 1958 Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m 1956 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+ 1956 British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt 1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph 1956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103 1955 Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga launched 1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched 1955 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail 1952 North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH 1952 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany 1952 U.S. minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp," kills 176 1949 Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem 1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph 1947 Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speed record, 1,047 kph 1947 Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph 1947 NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established 1945 Kamikaze-Zero strikes U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise 1945 U.S. aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid 1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier 1945 U.S. aircraft carriers attack Tokyo 1945 U.S. aircraft carriers attack Okinawa 1944 U.S. aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines 1944 Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sinks by U.S. air attack 1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas 1944 Battle of Philippines Sea, 300 Japanese aircraft shot down 1944 15 U.S. aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas 1943 U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet launched 1943 Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk 1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea 1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz 1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal 1942 British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed and sinks 1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor 1942 Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea 1941 Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan 1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal 1941 U.S. aircraft carrier Lexington and 5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor 1941 British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sank in Mediterranean 1940 12 German aircraft shot down above England 1940 55 German aircraft shot down above England 1940 28 German aircraft shot down above England 1940 31 German aircraft shot down over England 1940 Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production 1940 Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious 1939 German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die 1938 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland) 1937 Japanese aircraft shell and sink U.S. gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized and eventually paid U.S. $2.2M in reparations) 1935 1st test flight of British Hurricane aircraft 1934 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Air Lines 1934 Donald Spiers, controller, Aircraft MoD 1933 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger 1932 Adrian Swire, British aircraft magnate, Cathay Pacific 1931 1st rocket-powered aircraft design patented, Robert Goddard 1929 Cruiser Act: OKs construction of 19 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier 1928 John William Fozard, aircraft designer 1927 John Swire, British aircraft magnate, Cathay Pacific 1925 Paul MacCready, engineer/inventor, 1st man-powered aircraft 1924 Croydon Airport: 1st British mig aircraft Imperial established 1922 1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho 1922 USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier 1920 Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation 1919 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas) 1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic 1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft 1917 Googie Withers, born in Karachi, India, actress, 1 of Our Aircraft is Missing 1917 Frederick Page, CEO, British Aerospace Aircraft Group 1916 Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time 1916 U.S. pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft 1915 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany 1913 1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe Pegoud-France) 1913 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pegoud-France) 1913 1st 4 engine aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia) 1912 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin 1911 M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km 1911 Anthony Fokker's demonstrates aircraft "Snip" 1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph, 133 kph 1910 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy) 1910 England's 1st aircraft flight 1910 Clement of Maasdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death 1910 1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England) 1909 Eugene Lefebvre, dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft 1907 Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division 1906 Eric Mensforth, president, Westland Aircraft 1906 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France 1905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, Hughes Aircraft, inventor 1903 At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright) 1903 Olive Ann Beech, aircraft industry executive 1898 Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer 1898 Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer 1896 Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies 1896 Otto Lilenthal, aircraft pioneer, killed during a glider test at 48 1895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer, Northrop Air 1892 Donald Wills Douglas, U.S., aircraft pioneer, McConnell Douglas 1890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, born in Holland, aircraft pioneer, Spider 1888 Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder 1888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, German inventor, 1st rocket-powered aircraft 1881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft co, Boeing |
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