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1824 - 1st aerial ascent by a Native American as a passenger, Chief Waschisabe, in Jules Francois Dupuis-Delcourt's balloon "flotilla" takes place at Montjean, France.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Aviation/Historical_anniversaries/August_in_aviation/August_13

1894 - Birth of Honore Marie Joseph Leon Guillaume de Bonald, French WWI flying ace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honore_de_Bonald - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/france/de_bonald.ph

1894 - Birth of Edwin Charles Musick, Chief Pilot for Pan American World Airways and pioneer of many of Pan Am's transoceanic routes including the famous route across the Pacific Ocean on the China Clipper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Musick

1895 - Birth of Frederick James Powell, British WWI flying ace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Powell - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/powell1.php

1897 - Birth of Thomas Francis Netterville "Teddy" Gerrard, British WWI flying ace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gerrard_(aviator) - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/gerrard.php

1902 - Birth of Felix Heinrich Wankel, German mechanical engineer and inventor after whom the Wankel engine was named.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Wankel

1904 - Making an unassisted takeoff, Wilbur Wright flies the Flyer II for 1,300 feet (400 m).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers#Flights

1911 - Matilda Moisant became the 2nd woman pilot certified by the Aero Club of America.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0CE2DC1131E233A25757C1A96E9C946096D6CF

1914 - Following mobilisation the headquarters of the Royal Flying Corps, Nos. 2, 3, 4 flew from Dover to Amiens in order to support the British Expeditionary Force.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/british-military-aviation/1914.aspx

1918 - Death of Dieter Collin, German WWI flying ace, from injuries received in action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Collin - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/collin.php

1918 - British WWI flying ace Cyril William Gladman shoot down 4 Fokker D.VII with his Bristol F.2b on a single mission.

http://theaerodrome.com/aces/england/gladman.php

1918 - Death of Charles Dawson Booker, British WWI fighter ace, Killed in his sopwith Camel by Fokker D.VII aircrafts while covering the retreat of a rookie pilot on an orientation tour of their aerial battlefield.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dawson_Booker - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/booker.php

1918 - American WWI flying ace Eugene Seeley Coler shoot down 4 Fokker D.VII with his Bristol F.2b on a single mission.

http://theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/coler.php

1924 - 1st flight of the Dewoitine D 15, sole single-seat fighter prototype of biplane configuration to be built by French Emile Dewoitine.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/france/dewoitine_d-15.php

1930 - Frank Hawks with the Travel Air Type R "Mystery Ships" named "Texaco 13" sets a new transcontinental west-to-east record in 12 hours, 25 minutes, three seconds from New York to Los Angeles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hawks#.22Texaco_13.22

1932 - 1st flight of the Gee Bee Model R Super Sportster, American racing aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gee_Bee_Model_R

1936 - Death of Alfredo De Luca, Italian aviator, killed in action during the ethiopian war.

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_De_Luca

1937 - 1st flight of The Sikorsky VS-44, American large four-engined flying boat designed primarily for the trans-Atlantic passenger market.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_VS-44

1939 - 1st flight of The Vickers Warwick, multi-purpose twin engine British aircraft, designed in parallel with the smaller Wellington.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Warwick

1940 - A RAAF Lockheed Hudson crashed near Canberra, the capital of Australia, All 6 passengers, including 3 members of the Australian Cabinet and the Chief of the General Staff and the 4 crew aboard were killed in the accident.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Canberra_air_disaster

1940 - German aircraft begin the bombing of southern England in order to destroy the RAF and knock out British radar stations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain#Main_assault - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlertag

1941 - Death of Petr Semenovich Bityutskiy, Soviet WWII flying ace, Ramming his Polikarpov I-152 in a Bf-109.

http://www.cieldegloire.com/015_bityutskii_p_s.php - http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/soviet_bityutskii.htm

1942 - Birth of Robert Lee Stewart, US Army test pilot and NASA astronaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Stewart

1943 - Northwest African Air Force aircraft attack Wiener Neustadt. This is the first attack on Austria by United States Army Air Force (USAAF) forces based in the Mediterranean.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/world-aviation/1943.aspx

1945 - 1st flight of The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-8 'Duck', Soviet experimental wooden aircraft pusher configuration to test the novel canard configuration, used as a testbed in developing the swept wing of the MiG-15.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-8

1947 - 1st flight of the SFCA Lignel 46 'Coach', French 4 seat low wing monoplane sports prototype aircraft, last aircraft design built by SFCA-Lignel (Société Française de Constructions Aéronautiques-Lignel).

http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=558 - http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/BregeriePierre/10898.htm

1951 - 1st flight (powered) of The DFS 346 (Samolyot 346), German rocket-powered swept-wing vehicle captured by soviet union after WWII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFS_346#Operational_use

1957 - 1st flight (hover) of The Vertol VZ-2 (or Model 76), American tiltrotor research aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertol_VZ-2

1962 - 1st flight of The British Aerospace 125 or Hawker Siddeley HS.125, British twin-engined mid-size corporate jet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Aerospace_125

1973 - Aviaco Flight 118 Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle crashed on approach to A Coruña. Pilot error caused the plane to collide with some eucalyptus trees, crash to the ground striking several houses and burned out, killing all 85 occupants and a person on the ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviaco_Flight_118

1976 - 1st flight of The Bell 222, American 1st light commercial twin turbine engine helicopter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_222

1981 - Bristow Westland Wessex 60 lost power to the main rotor gearbox, going out of control during the ensuing autorotation. The flight was carrying 11 gas workers from the Leman gas field to Bacton. All people on board were lost.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-ASWI_North_Sea_ditching

1989 - 2 hot air balloons collided near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, causing one to crash to the ground, killing 13 people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Springs_hot_air_balloon_crash

1989 - Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-28 returns from a secret five-day military mission at Edwards AFB.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-28

1997 - 1st flight of the Airbus A320-200, European twin engine medium airliner, evolution of the A320-100

http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=6536

1998 - Launch of Soyuz TM-28, russian mission to the Mir space station carrying Yuri Baturin, 1st Russian politician in space.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_TM-28

2001 - NASA's experimental solar-powered, remotely piloted Helios aircraft reached a record 96,500 feet in altitude for unmanned aerial vehicles in a 17-hour flight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Pathfinder#Records

2003 - Launch of SCISAT-1, Canadian satellite designed to make observations of the Earth's atmosphere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCISAT-1

2004 - Air Tahoma Flight 185 Convair 580 scheduled cargo flight for DHL crashed during approach to landing just one mile short of the runway, due to fuel starvation resulting from the captain’s decision not to follow approved fuel crossfeed procedures, Killing one of the 2 crew members.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Tahoma_Flight_185

2010 - Ándalus Líneas Aéreas, Spanish regional airline, ceases operations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalus_Lineas_Aereas

2010 - AIRES Flight 8250 Boeing 737-73V crashed on the Colombian island of San Andrés, Carribean, while attempting to land in bad weather, breaking into three pieces on impact, killing 2 over 131

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIRES_Flight_8250

2012 - Death of Ryotaro Jobo, Japanese sino-japanese war and WWII flying ace.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8A%E5%9D%8A%E8%89%AF%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E