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