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1883 - 1st manned, controlled, heavier-than-air flights of the US is made by John Joseph Montgomery. His glider sailed a distance of 603 feet at a height of about 15 feet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joseph_Montgomery
1886 - Birth of Clive Franklyn Collett, New Zealand WWI flying ace, 1st British or Commonwealth military pilot to use a parachute (in a test),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Franklyn_Collett - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/nzealand/collett.php
1889 - Birth of Vittorio Suster, Italian aviator.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_Suster
1890 - Birth of Gustav Schneidewind, German WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Schneidewind - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/schneidewind.php
1894 - Birth of Bernard Artigau, French WWI flying ace, pioneering commercial pilot who also served in WWII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Artigau - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/artigau.php
1894 - Birth of Alan Duncan Bell-Irving, Canadian WWI flying ace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Duncan_Bell-Irving - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/bell-irving.php
1899 - Birth of Walter Irving Newby Grant, Australian WWI flying ace
http://theaerodrome.com/aces/australi/grant2.php
1904 - Birth of Secondo Campini, Italian engineer and one of the pioneers of the jet engine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondo_Campini
1909 - Henri Farman is the pilot of the 1st 3-person flight carrying 2 passengers for 10 kilometres.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Farman
1910 - Swiss Armand Dufaux flew his Dufaux 4 from St. Gingolph to Geneva (c.40mi. 64km) above the Leman lake, taking just 56 minutes and 5 seconds, and winning a prize of 5,000 Swiss francs for the feat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Dufaux
1914 - South african Norman Spratt conduct what is believed to be the 1st dogfight in history : flying a Sopwith Tabloid, he forced down a German Albatros C.I two-seater, an amazing achievement as his Sopwith was not armed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Spratt
1923 - Birth of Günter F. Wendt, German-American engineer noted for his work in the U.S. manned spaceflight program. "There is no reason to say I am narrow-minded. "Just do it my way and you will have no problem at all."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guenter_Wendt
1923 - At Rockwell Field, California, Lts. Lowell H. Smith and John P. Richter land their DH-4B Liberty 400, setting FAI refueled duration and distance records.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airco_DH.4#United_States_military_service
1928 - Birth of Raynham George 'Ray' Hanna, New Zealand born pilot in the RAF and a number of civilian companies. During his time in the RAF he was a founding member of the Red Arrows. He also founded the Old Flying Machine Company and regularly flew aircraft from his vintage warbird collection at airshows around the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Hanna - http://www.ofmc.co.uk/rayandmark.aspx
1928 - Famed bush pilot Clennell (Punch) Dickins leaves with his Fokker Super Universal on his 12-day survey of the eastern Arctic. He covers 6,336 kilometres in 37 hours of flying, often navigating by the sun.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=13711683&page=gr
1932 - The 3rd FAI International Tourist Plane Contest 'Challenge International de Tourisme' in Berlin is won by the Polish crew Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura on the RWD-6 plane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_1932#Results
1934 - Beginning of The Challenge 1934, 4th and last FAI International Tourist Plane Contest (French: Challenge International de Tourisme) in Warsaw, Poland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_1934
1937 - 1st flight of the Junkers Ju 90, German 40-seat, four-engine airliner issued from the rejected Ju 89 bomber.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_90
1941 - Death of Hermann-Friedrich "Jupp" Joppien, German WWII Luftwaffe Flying ace, shot down and killed in his Bf 109 F-2 (W.Nr. 9670) "Black <<" by a Russian MiG-3 fighter over russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann-Friedrich_Joppien
1944 - 1st jet aircraft shot down in WWII, USAF pilots Joseph Myers and Manford O. Croy Jr flying P-47D shoot down a Me-262.
http://www.cieldegloire.com/014_myers_j.php - http://www.ulongbeach.com/Croy.html
1947 - Det Norske Luftfartsselskap (DNL) (Norwegian airline) Shorts S.25 Sandringham 6 hit a mountain close to Lødingsfjellet in Lødingen, southern Tjeldsundet, Norway killing all 35.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvitbj%C3%B8rn_disaster
1947 - 1st flight of the Convair B-36 A, unarmed crew-trainer version of the american intercontinental bomber.
http://www.aviastar.org/air/usa/convair_b-36.php?p=1
1952 - 1st flight of The GAF Jindivik, Australian target drone, proof of concept to test the aerodynamics, engine and radio control systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAF_Jindivik
1952 – Considered to be the 1st guided missiles to be launched from a carrier in combat, a Grummann F6F Hellcat is loaded with explosives and flown as a drone radio controlled from an escorting AD Skyraider against a railway bridge at Hungnam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Boxer_(CV-21)#Korean_War
1957 - A record altitude for manned aircraft is achieved by the RAF Canberra serial no. WK 163 piloted by chief test pilot M. Randrup. He flies the aircraft to 70,310 ft. with the aid of a Double Scorpion rocket motor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_Canberra#Flight_records_set_by_Canberras
1958 - 1st flight of the Beechcraf Model 65 Queen Air, twin-turboprop business prototype aircraft, 1st of the famous Beechcraft King Air family.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Queen_Air
1959 - Death of Harry Alison Wood, Canadian WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Wood_(aviator) - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/wood2.php
1960 - Birth of Leroy Chiao, American engineer and NASA astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Chiao
1961 - Operation Sagerburner: A McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom averaged 902.769 mph (1,452.826 km/h) over a 3 mi (4.82 km) course flying below 125 feet (38.1 m)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-4_Phantom_II#World_records
1962 - Venera 2MV-1 No.1 (also known as Sputnik 19 in the West), Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera programme, is back on earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_2MV-1_No.1
1963 - 2 USAF Boeing KC-135A-BN Stratotankers collided in mid-air 480 km (300 mls) W off Bermuda (Atlantic Ocean) after refueling B-47s killing both crews.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19630828-0 - http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19630828-1
1964 - Launch of Nimbus-1, US robotic spacecraft used for meteorological research and development.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_program
1968 - Death of Robert Charles Morane, French aircraft designer and test pilot
http://www.appl-lachaise.net/appl/article.php3?id_article=1123
1972 - Prince William of Gloucester is killed in the crash of a Piper Cherokee Arrow during the Goodyear International Air Trophy at Halfpenny Green, near Wolverhampton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_William_of_Gloucester#Death
1972 - Cpt Richard Richie becomes the 1st USAF ace of the Vietnam War, shooting down his 5th Mig-21 with his F-4 Phantom II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Richie#Vietnam
1974 - Soyuz 15, Soviet manned space flight, is back on earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_15
1975 - 1st flight of The Robinson R22, American two-bladed, single-engine light utility helicopter.
http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/robinson-22.php
1980 - The 3rd FAI World Rally Flying Championship begins in Aschaffenburg, West Germany, with 32 crews from 10 countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_FAI_World_Rally_Flying_Championship
1982 - Test Pilot Nikolai Sadovnikov performed the 1st take-off with the T10-3 prototype fighter (later designated Sukhoi Su-33 Flanker D) from the T-1 experimental jump-off ramp. The 18.2-tonne aircraft run made up 230 m with a lift-off speed of 230 km/h. Later on, the run was reduced down to 140 m with a lift-off speed of 180 km/h, max take-off speed of the T10-3 having been made 22 tonnes during the ramp take-off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-33#Background_and_origins - http://www.aviastar.org/russian-aircraft/flanker/flanker_2.html
1988 - 1st flight of The Hoffmann H-40, German prototype sports plane based on the Dimona motor-glider, conventional, low-wing monoplane with side-by-side seating for two and tricycle undercarriage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoffmann_H-40
1988 - 10 Aermacchi MB-339 PAN jets from the Italian Air Force display team, Frecce Tricolori, were performing their 'pierced heart' formation when 3 of them collided in mid air. 67 spectators and 3 pilots died, and 346 spectators sustained serious injuries in the resulting explosion and fire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramstein_airshow_disaster
1993 - Tajikistan Airlines Yakovlav Yak-40 (grossly overloaded with 86 passengers) overran the runway at Khorog Airport, Tajikistan and fell into the Panj River killing 82. The crew was forced at gunpoint to overload the aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-40#Notable_accidents_and_incidents
1997 - 1st (tethered) hovering flight of the AD & D Hummingbird, Israelian VTOL platform.
http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/add_platform.php
1999 - Soyuz TM-29 Russian manned spacecraft to MIR, is back on earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_TM-29
2002 - An Ariane 5G launcher lift off with Atlantic Bird 1 (European Telecommunication Satellite) and MSG 1 (European Weather satellite).
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Bird_1
2007 - Death of Paul Beattie MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer, founder of AeroVironment and designer of the human-powered aircraft Gossamer Condor that won the Kremer prize
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_MacCready
2008 - Zoom Airlines, Canadian low-fare scheduled transatlantic airline, cease operations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Airlines
2008 - A F-22 from the 411th Flight Test Squadron performed the 1st ever air-to-air refueling of an aircraft using synthetic jet fuel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor#Service_history
2010 - Death of Wing Commander John Connell Freeborn , British WWII RAF pilot. He was not only an ace but also held the distinction of having flown more operational hours than any other RAF pilot during the Battle of Britain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Freeborn
2010 - Death of William Benjamin "Bill" Lenoir, American engineer and NASA astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Lenoir#Death
2010 - Compañía Mexicana de Aviación ceased operations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicana_de_Aviaci%C3%B3n
2012 - Henry Enerson flew the Gamera II, human powered helicopter, to a world record height of 8 ft (2.4 m) above ground level.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland_Gamera_II_Human_Powered_Helicopter