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2005 Event - Steve Fossett flies the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer to a world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world 1994 Event - B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed 1993 Event - C-130 flies into a Philippines hill and explodes, 16 killed 1993 Event - Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed 1993 Death - William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81 1991 Event - Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude 1990 Event - Galileo flies by Venus 1989 Event - After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps 1989 Event - Voyager 2 flies past Neptune 1986 Event - Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound 1986 Event - New York Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game 1986 Event - European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km) 1986 Event - Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km 1986 Event - Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km 1986 Event - U.S.S.R.'s Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km 1985 Event - Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport 1985 Event - Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB 1985 Event - Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB 1985 Event - Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz 1984 Event - Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB 1983 Event - Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB 1983 Event - Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center 1983 Event - Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB 1982 Event - Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas 1982 Event - Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas 1979 Event - Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter 1979 Event - Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center 1976 Birthday - Balthazar Getty, actor, Young Guns 2, Lord of the Flies 1973 Event - Concorde flies from Washington D.C. to Paris in 3h 33m 1971 Event - Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile and flies to Rome 1969 Event - Mariner 7 flies past Mars 1969 Event - Mariner 6 flies past Mars 1969 Event - Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars 1964 Event - U.K. flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to U.S. 1963 Event - John F. Kennedy flies to Texas 1962 Event - 1st Lockheed A-12 flies 1961 Event - USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours 1958 Event - PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip - New York to Paris 1958 Event - Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8) New York to London 1958 Event - Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter 1958 Event - BOAC Britannia flies London to New York in a record 7h57m 1957 Event - Major Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo 1957 Event - Major Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH 1957 Event - Major Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.8 K) 1955 Event - 1st magnesium jet airplane flies 1954 Event - Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m 1954 Event - USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam 1949 Event - 1st jet-propelled airline, De Havilland Comet, flies 1948 Event - British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound 1948 Event - U.S. rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height 1947 Event - Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flies for 1st (& last) time 1947 Event - Howard Hughes flies "Spruce Goose," a large wooden airplane 1945 Event - WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire 1944 Event - Greece: British premier Churchill flies back to London 1944 Event - British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow 1944 Event - British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery 1944 Event - General Bradley flies to England 1944 Event - New York archbishop Spellman flies to Europe 1943 Event - Lieutenant-general Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech/Prestwick 1943 Event - Lieutenant-general Bradley flies to Carthago/Algiers Sicily 1943 Event - 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission, over Italy 1943 Event - Admiral Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul 1943 Event - Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft 1943 Event - General-major Bradley flies to Algiers 1943 Event - General-major Bradley flies to Washington D.C. 1942 Event - British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo 1941 Event - Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd) 1941 Event - 1st British turbojet flies 1941 Event - Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin 1940 Event - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans 1940 Event - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris 1940 Event - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris 1940 Event - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris 1939 Event - Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde 1938 Event - British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich 1938 Event - Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours 1937 Event - Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies world record 610.4 kph 1935 Event - Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph 1935 Event - Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland California (non-stop, of course) 1934 Event - Fokker F18 Snip flies to Netherlands West Indies 1934 Event - Hitler flies to Essen, Night of Long Knifes 1931 Event - Captain G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph) 1929 Event - Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro 1928 Event - Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again 1926 Event - Yankees' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies 1926 Event - Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole 1925 Event - Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out 1925 Event - Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran 1923 Event - ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over New York's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower 1923 Event - Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland 1916 Event - Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time 1914 Event - Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome 1911 Event - Britain's 1st seaplane flies 1910 Event - Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record) 1910 Event - Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to New York City 1907 Event - French cyclist Paul Cornu flies 1st helicopter (twin rotor) 1907 Event - France's Henry Farman flies 30m in a double decker plane 1903 Event - Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand) 1900 Event - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1st airship LZ-1, flies 1873 Birthday - Mariano Azuela, Mexico, novelist, The Flies, The Bosses 1830 Event - Charles Durant, 1st U.S. aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, New York City to Perth Amboy, New Jersey 1688 Event - Princess Anne flies from London to Nottingham 1556 Event - Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies 1431 Event - 1st meeting of Order of Guilder Flies |
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