2003 William McCool, astronaut, pilot of Columbia, STS-107, dies at 41
2001 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer/pilot, ", Gift from the Sea, ", dies at 94
1999 EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot
1996 W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot, dies at 82
1996 Alfred William Bill Bedford, test Pilot, dies at 75
1996 Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot, dies at 81
1996 Harald James Penrose, pilot, dies at 92
1996 Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot, dies at 93
1996 John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot, dies at 50
1996 Ronald George Woodman, pilot, dies at 82
1996 David W. Howe, test pilot, dies at 77
1996 Jessica Dubroff, attempting to be youngest pilot, dies in crash at 7
1996 Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, Test pilot, dies at 83
1995 Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker, dies at 75
1995 Jack Mann, pilot/hostage, dies at 81
1995 Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman, dies at 74
1995 Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot, dies at 91
1995 James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot, dies at 74
1994 4 Moslem fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers
1994 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84
1994 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)
1994 Nicholas Warner, test Pilot, dies at 51
1994 Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot, dies at 92
1994 Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72
1993 Joseph Towers, U.S. pilot, dies
1993 Milton "Milt" Thompson, U.S. NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer, dies at 67
1993 Peter Bierdrager, Dutch Fokker's-test pilot, dies in air crash
1993 Paul Brickhill, Dutch/US WW II pilot/physician, dies
1992 1964 "Gilligan's Island" TV pilot 1st shown on TV (TBS)
1991 Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73
1991 Operation Desert Storm: 1st U.S. pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)
1989 Roland Winters, actor (Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84
1989 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines
1989 Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists
1988 Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, ace WW II pilot, dies at 75 of cancer
1987 Thomas G Lanphier Jr, U.S. WW II pilot, dies at 71
1987 West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia
1987 Mathias Rust, 19, W. German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in U.S.S.R.
1986 NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated
1985 Edmond O'Brien, actor (Moon Pilot, Wild Bunch), dies at 69
1984 Syria frees captured U.S. pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson
1981 Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1st U.S. woman free balloon pilot, dies
1980 Jacqueline Cochrane, U.S. pilot/1st female faster than sound, dies at 70
1977 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premieres on TV
1977 Francis Gary Powers, U.S. U-2 pilot, dies at 47
1976 Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
1976 Michael V Love, U.S. test pilot (X-24), dies in F-4 crash at 37
1975 Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam
1975 John B McKay, U.S. test pilot (X-15), dies
1973 Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot, dies at 82
1973 Andre de Meulemeester, Belg WW I pilot [Eagle of Flanders], dies at 78
1971 29 pilot whales beach themselves and die at San Clemente Island, California
1970 Michael B Enyaer, writer, Pilot One
1970 Blanche Stuart Scott, U.S. pilot, dies at 84
1969 Stafford and Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface
1967 Michael James Adams, USAF pilot (X-15), dies in X-15 crash at 37
1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
1964 Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek
1964 Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie)
1964 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "Cage" released
1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km)
1963 NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
1963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut
1963 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely
1962 Rudolph Anderson, U-2 pilot, shot down over Cuba
1962 NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m
1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m
1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
1962 NASA civilian Test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m
1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 46,900m
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m
1962 A NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong takes X-15 to 40,690 m
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m
1961 Helene Dutrieu, comedienne/stuntwoman/1st Belgian pilot, dies
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 m
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 m)
1957 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a U.S. scheduled passenger airline
1956 Kevin R Kregel, born in New York City, New York, Pilot/astronaut, STS 70, 78, 87
1956 Mark L Polansky, Paterson, New Jersey, pilot/astronaut
1955 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced
1954 Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot, dies at 54
1954 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
1953 Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea
1950 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
1949 Norah Ellen O'Neill, airline pilot, Flying Tigers
1948 Samuel S Hinds, actor (Raven, Test Pilot), dies at 73
1947 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8
1945 John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot
1944 Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies
1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Fr pilot/writer (Small Prince), dies at 44
1944 Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle
1944 Robert H Iseley, U.S. pilot/lt-comdr (Saipan), dies in battle
1944 Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down
1943 Edward H "Butch" O'hare, U.S. pilot/lt-comdr, dies in battle
1943 Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane
1943 Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash
1943 Nicholas Warner, test Pilot
1942 Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times
1941 Iida, Japanese pilot/lt, dies in battle at 28
1941 Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot
1940 Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya, dies at 44
1940 Dany Saval, born in Oakland California, actress, Boeing Boeing, Moon Pilot
1938 Michael V Love, U.S. test pilot, X-24
1937 Amelia Earhart Putnam, Dutch pilot/1st female to fly Atl, dies at 40
1934 Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport
1933 Bruce A Peterson, U.S. test pilot, M2, HL-10
1933 Walter Paulis, mineworker/pilot/Dutch MP, CDA
1932 Einar K Enevoldson, U.S., Nasa test pilot, X-24B
1932 F Gregory Neubeck, USAF pilot
1931 John A Manke, U.S. test pilot, HL-10
1931 Lachlan Macleay, USAF/pilot
1931 Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st U.S. women to earn a glider pilot license
1930 Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent
1930 William H Dana, born in Pasadena, California, test pilot, X-15
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 William H Dana, pilot, X-15
1930 Neil Armstrong, born in Ohio, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker, Gemini 8, Apollo 11
1930 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot
1930 Michael James Adams, USAF pilot, X-15
1929 William Joseph "Pete" Knight, astronaut/test pilot, X-15
1929 Edmond Thieffry, Belgium, WW I pilot, dies at 36
1926 Milton "Milt" Thompson, U.S. NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer, X-15
1924 Robert A Rushworth, Madison Maine, test pilot, X-15
1924 Robert Michael White, New York City, test pilot, X-15
1924 Brian Trubshaw, British test pilot
1923 Lord Laing, English biscuit manufacturer/pilot/multi-millionaire
1923 Chalmers Goodlin, U.S. test pilot, XS-1
1922 Arthur R Hawkins, U.S. pilot/capt, WW II, downed 14 jap planes
1922 John B McKay, U.S. test pilot, X-15
1922 Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot
1922 Erich Hartmann, German WW II pilot, downed 352 Russian aircrafts
1922 Neville Duke, English test pilot
1921 A Scott Crossfield, U.S. Test pilot, XS-1
1921 Leonard Overton, British glider pilot, Arnhem 1944
1921 Peter Twiss, test pilot
1921 Bessie Coleman reaches France as U.S. 1st black pilot
1921 Joseph Albert Walker, Washington D.C., test pilot, X-15
1920 Alfred William Bedford, test pilot
1920 Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman
1920 James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot
1920 Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker
1919 John Alcock, pilot (1st non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash at 27
1918 Douglas Campbell is 1st U.S. ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)
1918 S. Potter becomes 1st U.S. pilot to shoot down a German seaplane
1918 1st U.S. pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson
1917 Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot, dies at 22
1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
1916 Victor Chapman, U.S. legionaire/WW I pilot, killed
1916 Max Immelmann, German pilot (WW I), killed
1916 U.S. pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker
1916 U.S. pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft
1915 Peter Guy Wykeham-Barnes, fighter Pilot
1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
1915 Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot
1914 Jack Mann, pilot/hostage
1914 Ronald George Woodman, pilot
1914 W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot
1914 1st scheduled airline flight, St. Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot)
1913 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pegoud-France)
1913 Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, Test pilot
1912 Henry L "Hank" Miller, U.S. pilot/lt adm, WW II-Pacific
1912 Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to cross English Channel
1912 Adolf Galland, fighter Pilot
1912 Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot
1911 Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot
1911 Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot
1910 Stephen Jurika, Jr., U.S. pilot/capt, WW II, Santa Cruz, Navy Cross
1910 Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies
1910 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot
1910 Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude
1910 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from New York to Philadelphia
1910 William I Martin, U.S. pilot/vice-admiral, WW II
1910 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot
1910 Douglas R S Bader, British pilot, WW II
1910 David McCampbell, U.S. pilot/capt, WW II-Pacific-downed 34 Jap planes
1908 Gerben Sonderman, Dutch test pilot, Fokker
1908 Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot, BI-1
1908 French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip
1907 Janet Harmon Bragg, U.S. pilot/columnist, Chicago Defender
1905 Fitzhugh Lee, U.S. pilot/vice-admiral, WW II, Navy Cross
1905 John S "Jimmy" Thach, U.S. pilot/admiral, WW II
1904 Harald James Penrose, pilot
1904 Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot
1903 Amy Johnson, British pilot
1903 Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot
1903 James S. Russell, U.S. pilot/admiral, WW II Pacific Ocean
1901 Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot
1900 Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot
1898 Jay C. Flippen, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, actor, Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay
1896 Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya, La marcia su Rome
1894 Andre de Meulemeester, Belgian WW I pilot, Eagle of Flanders
1894 Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot
1893 Bessie Coleman, 1st black airplane pilot
1892 John Alcock, English pilot, 1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean
1892 Edmond Thieffry, Belgian WW I pilot/air pioneer
1892 Baron Willy Coppens de Houthulst, Belgian WW I pilot
1877 Helene Dutrieu, comedienne/stuntwoman/1st Belgian female pilot
1864 Battle at Pilot Knob (Ft. Davidson), Missouri: 1700 killed/injured
1492 Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus
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