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Flights
1993
Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and NY
1992
Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport, New York City
1992
U.N. Security Council voted to ban flights and arms sales to Libya
1989
Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush
1989
Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
1988
Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hours or less
1976
Pan Am begins non-stop flights New York City - Tokyo
1976
Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain and France
1968
U.S. end regular flights with nuclear bombs
1964
U.S. begin intelligence flights above Laos
1963
2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
1962
U.N. command forbids flights to Katangese airports
1961
1st shuttle flights between Washington D.C., Boston and New York City begin (Eastern)
1961
USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights
1959
Pan Am begins regular flights around World
1957
3 B-52s leave California for 1st non-stop round world flights
1954
1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
1949
Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights
1942
1st U.S. flights to land on Guadalcanal
1936
HR Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 days
1936
Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco to Honolulu
1928
Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between San Francisco and LA
1880
Lincoln Ellsworth, led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights
1859
J Arthur S Berson, Austria meteorologist, Balloon flights, Amazon
1753
Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
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