2005 Shuttle Discovery STS-114 launches, first flight since Columbia disaster
2005 Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France
2005 Steve Fossett flys the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer to a world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world
2004 Flash Airlines flight 604 crashes near Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, killing 148
2003 Union des Transports Africains de Guinee flight 141 crashes on takeoff from Cotonou Airport
2003 The Concorde made its last commercial flight, landing at Heathrow Airport, London
2003 Sudan Airways flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan, killing 116
2003 Air Algérie flight 6289 crashes at Tamanrasset Airport in Alegeria, killing 103
2003 Iranian Revolutionary Guard military flight crashes into the Sirach Mountains, killing 275
2002 China Airlines flight 611 crashes near Taiwan, killing 225, crash probably due to structural failure
2002 China Northern Airlines flight 6163 crashes in the ocean near Dalian, China after a fire is reported onboard, killing 112
2002 Air China flight 129 crashes into a mountain near Pusan, South Korea killing 128
2002 Iran Air Tours flight 956 crashes into a mountain in Iran killing 119
2001 American Airlines flight 587 crashes in Belle Harbor, New York, killing 265, vertical stabilizer failure
2001 SAS flight 686 crashes near Milano-Linate, killing 114, crash caused by flight crew and tower confusion
2001 Vladivostokavia flight 352 crashes near Burdakovka, killing 145
2000 Gulf Air flight 72 crashes near Bahrain, killing 143
2000 Air Philippines flight 541 crashes into a hill near Davao, killing 131
2000 Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer
2000 Kenya Airways flight 431 crashes near Cote d'Ivoire, killing 170, likely cause was a mechnical problem
1999 EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot
1998 SwissAir flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia killing all 229 onbaord, likely cause was an electrical fire
1997 TV evangelist Robert Schuller attacks a flight attendant
1997 Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight
1995 American Flight 965 crashes in Columbia, 159 die, 5 survive
1994 Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian marshal (Flight KAL 007), dies at 76
1993 1st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow)
1993 1st test flight of Fokker 70 in Amsterdam
1993 Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
1993 Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA)
1992 Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die
1992 1st test flight of Airbus A330
1992 James Brooks, U.S. mural painter (Flight, La Guardia New York), dies at 85
1991 1st International flight from Long Island's MacArthur Airport (to Mexico)
1991 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire
1990 Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya
1990 Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die
1989 Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
1989 East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary and Czech)
1989 1st Test flight of U.S. stealth-bomber
1989 1st U.S. private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight (NM)
1989 Boeing B-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
1988 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
1988 Dayton Lummis, actor (Moonfire, Flight that Disappeared), dies
1988 Longest champagne cork flight is 177'9 in New York
1988 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
1988 Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
1987 Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully
1987 Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")
1987 Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada
1987 Wrestler Jim Neidhart indicted for assaulting a flight attendant
1987 Larry Carr, pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72
1986 Rutan and Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
1986 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around world
1986 Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel
1986 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
1985 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
1985 Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds
1985 Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
1985 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
1985 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
1984 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4
1984 Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines
1983 Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world
1983 2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 22 seconds
1982 Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds
1982 Space Shuttle Columbia completes its 1st operational flight
1982 5th space shuttle mission-Columbia 5-launched 1st coml flight
1982 Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight
1982 Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die
1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14
1981 Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds
1980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
1979 On a flight to Austin, TX, Daniel Okrent sketches out the first
1979 Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight
1979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min
1978 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet
1978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
1977 1st flight of Concorde, London to New York
1977 Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07
1977 1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
1977 Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight
1977 1st free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise
1977 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
1977 Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner
1977 Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on it's maiden flight
1976 5th Enterprise, approach and lands test (ALT) flight
1976 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach and land test (ALT) flight
1976 2nd Enterprise, approach and lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s)
1976 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
1976 U.S. Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
1976 U.S. Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth
1976 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington D.C.)
1976 Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26)
1973 BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
1972 1st hot air balloon flight over Alps
1972 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
1971 Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds)
1970 Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey
1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
1970 American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747
1970 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, New York to London in 6 hours
1970 Panama Boeing 747 1st flight NY-London
1969 Concorde 001 test flight breaks sound barrier
1969 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft
1969 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
1969 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde
1969 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet
1969 James Lanphier, actor (Flight of Lost Balloon), dies at 48
1969 World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight
1969 Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight from Bristol England
1968 1st test flight of Tupolev TU 144
1968 Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar and return flight
1968 Zond 5 completes flight
1968 Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8)
1968 U.S.S.R.'s Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight
1968 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
1967 1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
1967 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V
1967 1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship
1966 Gemini 12 (Lovell and Aldrin) launched on 4-day flight
1966 Gemini XI (Charles Conrad and R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight
1966 Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switzerland), 117 die
1966 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
1966 Gemini 9 launched; 7th U.S. 2-man flight, Stafford and Cernan
1966 Nicholas Piantanida, sets balloon flight record and dies in descent
1965 Barbara Lufthansa Herzog, born during Lufthansa Frankfurt-NY flight
1965 Gemini 4 launched; 2nd U.S. 2-man flight, McDivitt and White
1965 Helen Chandler, actress (Dracula, Salute, Last Flight), dies at 56
1965 Test flight of heavy Saturn S-1C-rocket
1965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st U.S. 2-man space flight (Grissom and Young)
1965 JPL proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars and return
1964 Voskhod 1 launched: 1st flight with 3 cosmonauts
1964 Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail
1963 Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched
1963 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
1962 1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place
1962 U.S. U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba
1962 Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days
1962 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
1962 1st test flight of Hoovercraft
1961 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
1961 1st Saturn launch vehicle made a flight test
1961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
1960 Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
1959 X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
1959 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to New York for $301)
1958 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands, Dallas, Texas
1958 1st flight with black stewardess, Ruth Carol Taylor, Ithaca New York
1957 1st coml flight between California and Antartica
1957 Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for 1st powered flight
1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min
1956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Washington D.C.
1956 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620
1955 1st test flight of Fokker's F-27 Friendship
1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
1954 Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning
1954 B-52A bomber made its maiden flight
1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1952 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins
1952 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down
1952 1st B-52 prototype test flight
1951 Dana, singer and actress, Flight of the Doves
1951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair
1950 Willie Colon, born in born in Bronx, New York, actor, Last Flight
1950 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane
1949 1st British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its 1st test flight
1949 Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth, Tx, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hrs
1949 USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight
1947 Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)
1947 XB-45, 1st U.S. 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, California
1946 Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
1946 Dutch Dakota flight to Schiphol crashes, kills 11
1946 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland
1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die
1945 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, California
1944 Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight
1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight
1943 Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die
1943 Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
1942 Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus
1942 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemunde, Germany
1942 Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st U.S. jet, makes maiden flight
1942 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight
1942 Helicopter makes its 1st cross-country flight
1942 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
1942 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper")
1941 1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Connecticut
1941 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
1940 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Connecticut
1940 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300
1939 Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Curacao
1939 Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
1939 Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion
1939 Clara Adams, New York City, is 1st woman to complete round world flight
1939 Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe
1939 Pan Am's 1st U.S. to England flight
1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1938 Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight
1938 "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic
1938 Timothy Elworthy, Captain of The Queen's Flight
1937 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am
1936 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii
1936 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
1936 1st flight of Fw61 helicopter
1936 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France
1936 Spitfire makes it's 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton)
1936 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
1936 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, New York
1935 China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
1935 1st test flight of British Hurricane aircraft
1935 Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane
1935 1st U.S. airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, New York
1935 KLM begins flight path between Curaeao and Aruba
1934 1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934)
1933 Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight
1933 Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world
1933 1st flight over Mount Everest by Lord Clydesdale
1933 1st airplane flight over Mt. Everest
1933 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247
1932 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
1932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart, lands
1931 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Washington (Herndon and Pangborn)
1931 Wiley Post and Harold Catty took off for flight around world
1931 Piccard and Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon
1930 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, New York to California), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days
1930 1st nonstop airplane flight from New York to Panama
1930 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
1930 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to U.S. (37 hrs)
1930 Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
1930 1st NewYork - Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
1930 1st U.S. indoor glider flight, St. Louis Terminal Building
1930 1st U.S. glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst, NJ
1929 Adm Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight
1929 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1929 Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in New York in 1st all-instrument flight
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
1929 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
1929 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
1929 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1928 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
1928 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st helicopter flight over English Channel
1928 Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane
1928 1st U.S. to Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
1928 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-U.S. (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Kohl)
1928 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)
1928 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler)
1927 KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Neth-Indies after 1st regular flight
1927 Lindbergh begins New York flight (Spirit of St. Louis)
1927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
1927 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1927 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
1926 Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole
1926 1st flight over North Pole by Bennett and Byrd
1926 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
1925 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin)
1925 1st film shown on an British Air flight
1924 Fokker F-7 1st flight (Amsterdam to Batavia)
1924 2 U.S. Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops
1924 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
1924 Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn
1923 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain
1923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (New York - San Diego) completed
1923 1st flight of autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain)
1923 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain
1921 1st U.S. helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight
1921 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hours flying time arrives Florida
1921 1st U.S. transcontinental air mail flight arrives in New York City from San Francisco
1920 James Lanphier, New York, actor, Flight of Lost Balloon
1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to SF
1920 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
1920 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
1920 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (1 month)
1920 1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off
1919 Ross and Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
1919 Ross and Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
1919 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
1919 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)
1919 1st nonstop Atlantic flight, Alcock and Brown, lands in Ireland
1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; U.S. Navy flying boat takes 11 days
1919 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a Navy seaplane
1919 America's 1st passenger flight (New York - Atlantic City)
1918 1st flight between Hawaiian Islands
1918 Marguerite Chapman, born in Chatham, New York, actress, Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars
1915 1st military flight in Netherlands East Indies (Tandjong Priok)
1914 1st air flight out of sight of land, Scotland to Norway
1914 1st airplane flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco
1914 1st scheduled airline flight, St. Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot)
1913 1st aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France
1913 Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
1912 J. Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph - 161.29 kph
1912 1st eastbound U.S. transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla
1912 World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in New York)
1912 Renato Guttuso, Italian painter, Flight from Etna, Crucifixion
1911 Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (84 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, New York, Sept 17)
1911 1st non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3h56m)
1911 1st hydroplane flight to and from a ship (Glenn Curtiss, San Diego)
1910 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va
1910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
1910 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France)
1910 England's 1st aircraft flight
1910 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel, C S Rolls, England
1910 1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)
1909 France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across Engl Channel
1909 Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Netherlands (Belg count De Lambert)
1908 Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight
1908 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
1908 1st passenger flight in an airplane
1906 1st airplane flight in Europe
1905 Orville/Wilbur Wright's "Flyer III" flight 38.5 km in 38.3"
1904 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1904 Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
1903 At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
1903 Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
1900 Ralph Graves, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor, Dirigible, Flight, Dream Street
1893 Earnest Julius pik, Estonian astronomer, Physics of meteor flight
1892 John Alcock, English pilot, 1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean
1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, California
1852 Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st dirigible flight
1844 Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, composer, Flight of the Bumble Bee, NS 3/18
1793 1st hot-air balloon flight in the U.S. lifts off in Phila
1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America
1785 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard and Jeffries)
1784 1st U.S. balloon flight, 13 year old Edward Warren
1784 1st balloon flight in Ireland
1783 Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight
1783 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1783 Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight
1682 English earl of Shaftesbury flight to Amsterdam
622 Moslem Era begins-Mahomet begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hejira)
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