JAN22
1887 - Birth of Elmer "Archie" Fowler Stone, US naval aviator and a Commander in the US Coast Guard. He was a pilot on the 1st successful transatlantic flight on a Curtiss NC-4.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Fowler_Stone
1889 - Birth of Harry George Hawker, Australian aviation pioneer and co-founder of Hawker Aircraft,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hawker
1891 - Birth of Bruno Loerzer, German WWI flying ace and high ranking officer in WWII.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Loerzer - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/loerzer1.php
1892 - Birth of Marcel Dassault, born Marcel Bloch, French aircraft industrialist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Dassault
1893 - Birth of Wilhelm "Willy" Thöne, German WWI flying ace.
http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/thone.php
1906 - Birth of Willa Beatrice Brown, American aviatrix, 1st African American woman to earn a private pilot's license, 1st female officer in the Civil Air Patrol and 1st black woman to hold a commercial pilot's license in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Brown
1907 - Birth of Douglas Corrigan, American aviator, nicknamed "Wrong Way". Transatlantic flier, He claimed that his unauthorized flight was due to a navigational error, caused by heavy cloud cover that obscured landmarks and low-light conditions, causing him to misread his compass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Corrigan
1914 - Death of Charles Keeney Hamilton, early american aviator
http://earlyaviators.com/ehamilch.htm
1918 - Canadian WWI fighter ace George Robert Howsam scored 4 victories with his Sopwith Camel on that single day.
http://theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/howsam.php
1919 - The sole Blériot Bl-73, French 3 seat 4 engine biplane bomber prototype, broke in the air.
http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=157
1919 - Death of Carrick Stewart Paul, New Zealand WWI flying ace, drowned at sea while on the voyage home to New Zealand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrick_Paul - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/nzealand/paul.php
1922 - Death of Elsa Andersson, Sweden's 1st female aviator and stunt parachutist, killed on her third jump in Askersund, Sweden. She had trouble releasing her parachute, which finally unfolded only at a small distance from the treetops and she crashed violently into the ground.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Andersson
1926 - Spanish Dornier Do J Wal flying boat 'Plus Ultra' takes off from Palos de la Frontera, in Huelva, Spain to Buenos Aires, Argentina for the 1st Trans-Atlantic flight between Spain and South America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_Ultra_(flying_boat)
1931 - 1st flight of The Bristol Type 118 , British general-purpose military aircraft, a two-seat biplane prototype for overseas markets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Type_118
1933 - Jean Mermoz Lands his Couzinet 70 'Arc an Ciel' in Buenos Aires after a south Atlantic crossing from Paris-Le Bourget.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Mermoz#La_travers.C3.A9e_de_l.27Atlantique_Sud
1935 - Death of Elmer Allah Burlingame, early american aviation pioneer.
http://earlyaviators.com/eburling.htm
1943 - Death of Edmond Eugene Henri Caillaux, French WWI flying ace.
http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/caillaux.php
1944 - Death of Manfred Meurer, German WWII night fighter ace, colliding with a Avro Lancaster raiding Berlin, His Heinkel He 219A-0 crashed and Meurer and his radar operator Oberfeldwebel Gerhard Schiebe were killed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Meurer - http://www.luftwaffe.cz/meurer.html - http://www.cieldegloire.com/001_meurer_m.php
1948 - 1st flight of The Jodel D.9 'Bébé', French single-seat ultralight monoplane designed by Jean Délémontez for home construction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodel_D9
1948 - 1st fligth of The Short SA.6 Sealand, British light, twin engined commercial amphibian aircraft for 5-7 passengers, designed for the general overseas market in territories with suitable water access and/or runways
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sealand
1949 - Death of Frederick Robert Gordon McCal, Canadian WWI fighter ace, Post war stunt flyer who founded McCall Aero Corp. Ltd and Great Western Airway, and who returned in RCAF service for WWII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_McCall - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/mccall1.php
1951 - Saunders-Roe absorbs the Cierva autogyro company.
1952 - American Airlines Flight 6780 Convair 240 crashed on Final approach to Newark into a house in the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Killing all on board and 7 on ground.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_6780
1954 - 1st flight of The Payen Pa 49 Katy, small experimental French turbojet powered tailless delta winged aircraft, 1st French aircraft of this kind and the smallest jet aircraft of its day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payen_Pa_49
1955 - Birth of Thomas David Jones, USAF pilot and NASA astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_David_Jones
1962 - Death of John Herbert Greenwood Womersley, British WWI flying ace
http://theaerodrome.com/aces/england/womersley.php - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Womersley
1963 - Birth of Jean-Marc Michel Daniel Gasparini, French air force pilot, Chief test pilot at Bretigny Flight Test Center.
http://www.astronautix.com/astros/gasarini.htm
1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the 1st Lunar module into space with a Saturn IB rocket.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_5
1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's 1st "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747#Entry_into_service
1971 - Aeroflot Antonov An-12B crashed 15km (9.3 mi) short of the runway on approach to Surgut International Airport, Surgut, RSFSR, killing all 13. An investigation found the aircraft's ice protection system was ineffective because the engine bleed air valves were closed during the flight; ice therefore built up on the aircraft causing it to go out of control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Surgut_Aeroflot_Antonov_An-12_crash
1971 - A US Navy P-3C Orion lands in Patuxent River, Maryland, after a flight of 15 hours 21 minutes from Atsugi, Japan, setting a nonstop distance record for a turboprop-powered aircraft of 7,010 miles.
1973 – A chartered Nigeria Airways Boeing 707-3D3C explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19730122-0
1982 - A F/A-18 Hornet makes a fully automated landing, its autopilot linked to a ground radar at the Naval Air Test Center Patuxent River
1985 - Death of Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gromov, famous Russian aviator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gromov_(aviator)
1987 - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Michelob Light Eagle, piloted by Glenn Tremml, sets a world closed circuit distance record for human-powered aircraft of 58 kilometres (36 miles).
1990 - Launch of SPOT 2 (Système Pour l’Observation de la Terre ), optical imaging Earth observation satellite system operating from space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOT_(satellite)
1992 - Launch of STS-42, Space Shuttle Discovery mission with the Spacelab module, with Canada's 1st woman astronaut Dr. Roberta Bondar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-42
1997 - STS-81, Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Mir space station, is back on earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-81
1998 - 1st flight of the Boeing 737-600, American short- to medium-range, twin-engine narrow-body jet airliner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737#Orders_and_deliveries
1998 - Launch of STS-89, space shuttle Endeavour mission to the Mir space station.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-89
2011 - Launch of Kounotori 2, or HTV-2, second Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle to resupply the International Space Station (ISS).