JUNE27

1862 - Edward Porter Alexander, 1st Confederate balloonist, in the "Silk Dress" balloon observed Battle of Gaines Mill, ascending several times and returning with valuable intelligence regarding the position of the Union Army, the only successful Confederate observation of the Civil War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Porter_Alexander#Civil_War_service

1892 - Birth of André Julien Chainat, French WWI flying ace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Julien_Chainat - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/chainat.php

1894 - Birth of Percival Ewart Appleby, Canadian WWI flying ace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_Appleby - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/appleby.php

1896 - Birth of Leslie Archibald Powell, British WWI fighter ace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Powell - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/powell2.php

1897 - Birth of Philip Fletcher Fullard, British WWI fighter ace who served until the end of WWII

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_F._Fullard - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/fullard.php

1899 - Birth of Juan Terry Trippe, American airline entrepreneur and pioneer, and the founder of Pan American World Airways

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

1903 - Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge, at the age of 19, charmed Brazilian pioneer aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont into showing her how to operate his personal dirigible, “No. 9”. flew Santos-Dumont’s aircraft solo from Paris to Château de Bagatelle while Santos-Dumont rode his bicycle along below, waving his arms and shouting advice. 1st woman to pilot any kind of motorized aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aida_de_Acosta#The_flight

1911 - Lincoln J. Beachey flies his Curtiss pusher biplane over Horseshoe Falls, the most spectacular of the Niagara Falls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_J._Beachey

1912 - Following successes using aircraft against the Turks in North Africa, Italy forms a specialised Air Battalion (Battagliore Aviatori).

http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/waf/italy/af/ital-af2-home.htm -

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/world-aviation/1912.aspx

1914 - Lincoln Beachey completes the 1st loop-the-loop and inverted flying in Canada during an exhibition at Maisonneuve Park in Montréal.

http://canadianaviationhistory.pbworks.com/w/page/13801120/On%20this%20day%20in%20Canadian%20Aviation%20History%20June -

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/so00/aviation_history.asp

1916 – Fokker's chief designer and test pilot Martin Kreutzer takes a Fokker D.I for test flight, but when he kicks rudder hard over, it jams and he is severely injured in subsequent crash, dying in hospital the next day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Aviation/Historical_anniversaries/June_in_aviation/June_27

1917 - Death of Karl Allmenröder,German WWI flying ace, killed in action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Allmenroder - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/allmenroder.php

1918 - 1st pilot to successfully deploy a parachute in combat : Helmut Steinbrecher, German WWI flying ace is shot down in his Pfalz D.III by british Edward Barfoot Drake and safely bails out.

http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/steinbrecher.php - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/drake.php

1923 - 1st mid-air refueling between two planes occurred between two Airco DH-4B biplanes of the United States Army Air Service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_refueling - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_H._Smith

1926 - Brothers Ludovic and Paul Arrachart land back at le Bourget from Bassorah in the Potez 28/2 (french Biplane twin seat raid aircraft), setting a world straight distance record of over 4300 km.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potez_28 - http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9820

1927 - 1st flight of the Vickers Vivid, british Prototype Biplane single-engined.aircraft

http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/vickers_vivid.php

1930 - 1st flight of the SAB DB-80, French high wing monoplane Single engined 2 seat mailplane prototype.

http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=4966

1930 - Canadian Airways Ltd., formerly Western Canada Airways, is incorporated.

http://canadianaviationhistory.pbworks.com/w/page/13801120/On%20this%20day%20in%20Canadian%20Aviation%20History%20June

1935 - US Coast Guard Lieutenant Richard L. Burke sets a world seaplane altitude record of 5,449.050 metres (17,877.46 ft) carrying a 500-kg (1,102-lb) load, flying a Grumman JF-2 Duck.

http://ryanerickson.com/coast-guard-firsts-and-lasts-aviation/

1936 - Death of Vincenzo Magliocco, Italian WWI and Italo-Abyssinian War pilot, Brigadier General of the Regia Aeronautica, along with Antonio Locatelli, Italian WWI and Italo-Abyssinian War pilot, both killed during a reconnaissance mission.

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Magliocco - http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Locatelli

1936 - 1st flight of The Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior, more commonly known as the Lockheed 12 or L-12, eight-seat, six-passenger all-metal twin-engine transport aircraft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Model_12_Electra_Junior

1937 - Birth of Joseph Percival Allen, NASA astronaut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Allen

1939 - Hiromichi Shinohara, (the Richtofen of the Orient) highest-scoring fighter ace of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service, downs 11 planes on a single day while flying a Nakajima Ki-27 during an air battle over Tamsak-Bulak.

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

1939 - 1st flight of the Dewoitine D.770, prototype French twin-engined attack aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewoitine_D.770 - http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9310

1940 - Death of James William Elias "Jimmy" Davies, 1st American-born airman to die in WWII. Shot down in his Hurricane over the English channel by a BF-109.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Davies_(RAF_officer)

1941 - Death of Leonid Illarionovich Ivanov, Soviet WWII flying ace who also served during the Russian-Finnish war, ramming his Polikarpov I-153 in a Bf-109.

http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/soviet_ivanov2.htm

1941 - 1st flight of The Douglas XB-19 , US prototype bomber aircraft designed to test the flight characteristics and design techniques associated with giant bombers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_XB-19

1947 - 1st flight of The Tupolev Tu-12 (development designation Tu-77), Soviet jet-powered medium bomber.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-12

1948 - Birth of Julie E. Clark, American aerobatic air show pilot and former commercial airline pilot, one of the 1st female pilots to work for a major airline (Golden West Airlines).

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

1950 - USAF B-29 Superfortresses of the 19th Bombardment Group attack Seoul railway station and the bridge over the Han River in the 1st strategic bombing mission of the war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Aviation/Historical_anniversaries/June_in_aviation/June_27

1950 - A USAF F-82 Twin Mustang from 68th Fighter Squadron shoots down a North Korean Air Force Yak-11, the 1st air-to-air kill of the Korean War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68th_Fighter_Squadron

1950 - 1st flight of the FMA I.A.33 Pulqui II, argentinian prototype swept wing jet fighter designed by Kurt tank (Designer of the famous FW-190).

http://www.aviastar.org/air/argentina/fma_iae-33.php

1951 - Birth of Sidney McNeill "Sid" Gutierrez , USAF test pilot and NASA astronaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_M._Gutierrez

1952 - 1st flight of the Bell X-2, American research aircraft built to investigate flight characteristics in the Mach 2-3 range, launched from a B-50 Bomber for a Glide test.

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

1956 - Birth of Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Royal Saudi Air Force pilot, grandson of King Ibn Saud and the only Saudi citizen to travel in space. Also the 1st Arab, the 1st Muslim, and the 1st member of royalty in space.

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

1959 - 1st flight of the de Havilland DH 106 Comet version 4B, british commercial jet airliner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet#Comet_4

1963 - 1st flight of The Bell 207 Sioux Scout , experimental helicopter gunship design. The Sioux Scout featured a tandem cockpit, stub wings, and a chin-mounted gun turret.

http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/bell_207.php

1967 - Death of Jerzy Bajan, prominent Polish sports and military aviator, winner of the Challenge 1934 contest.

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

1968 - 1st flight of the Aerospatiale SA.316B "Alouette III", principal production version of the french single-engine, light utility helicopter.

http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/snias_alu3.php - http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=7837

1969 - 1st flight of The Interceptor 400, turboprop-powered single-engined light aircraft developed from the Aero Commander 200.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interceptor_400

1976 - Death of Rear Admiral Clarence Wade McClusky, Jr., US Navy aviator during WWII. He is credited with playing a major part in the Battle of Midway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Wade_McClusky

1976 – Air France Flight 139 Airbus A300B4-203 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.

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

1977 - 1st flight of The CASA C-101 Aviojet, Spanish low-wing single engine jet-powered advanced trainer and light attack aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASA_C-101

1978 - Launch of Soyuz 30, manned Soviet space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. On board was Miroslaw Hermaszewski, 1st Polish cosmonaut,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_30

1978 - Launch of SEASAT, 1st Earth-orbiting satellite designed by NASA for remote sensing of the Earth's oceans with on board the 1st spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR).

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

1979 - Israeli Air Force F-15 Eagles shoot down 4 Syrian Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Aviation/Historical_anniversaries/June_in_aviation/June_27

1980 - Death of Walter Robert Dornberger, German Army artillery officer whose career spanned WWI and WWII, leader of Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Center.

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

1980 - Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15, suffered an in-flight explosion and crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea near the island of Ustica . All 81 people on board were killed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerolinee_Itavia_Flight_870

1982 - A de Havilland Canada Dash 7 aircraft lands on Heron Quays, in the nearby West India Docks, in order to demonstrate the feasibility of the STOLport project for the London City Airport.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_City_Airport#History_of_the_airport

1982 - Launch of STS-4, NASA Space Shuttle mission, using the Space Shuttle Columbia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-4

1983 - Launch of Soyuz T-9,Soviet space mission to Salyut 7 station.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_T-9

1983 - Death of Max Leroy Anderson, American hot air balloonist and businessman. In fear of straying across the border of East Germany or Czechoslovakia in his balloon, he attempted to release the gondola from the envelope at touchdown but a gust re-lofted the vehicle at the same time. He was killed in the fall.

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

1985 - Death of Frederick Stanley "Freddie" Gordon, New Zealand WWI flying ace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Stanley_Gordon - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/nzealand/gordon1.php

1987 - Philippine Airlines Flight 206 Hawker Siddeley HS 748 crashed onto a mountain in poor weather (monsoon was also reported in the area) en route to Baguio City, killing all 50 persons on board.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Airlines_Flight_206

1995 - Launch of STS-71 with space shuttle Atlantis towards russian station MIR.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-71

2000 - Death of Rudolf Božík, Slovak WWII flying ace who served on the Eastern front with the Axis Forces until The Slovak National Uprising (armed insurrection organized by the Slovak resistance movement during WWII).

http://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Bo%C5%BE%C3%ADk - http://en.valka.cz/viewtopic.php/title/Bozik-Rudolf/p/323756

http://cieldegloire.com/013_slovaque.php

2000 - 1st flight of the Embraer ERJ 140, brazilian business jet, derivated from the ERJ 145 with a shortened fuselage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_ERJ_145_family

2003 - Air France's final Concorde flight took place to Toulouse.

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

2005 - Death of John Thomas Walton , decorated US war veteran and a son of Walmart founder Sam Walton. His CGS Hawk Arrow homebuilt aircraft (registered as an "experimental aircraft" under FAA regulations) that he was piloting crashed in Jackson, Wyoming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Walton#Death

2005 - Death of Raymond Towers "Ray" Holmes, British fighter pilot who was feted by the press as a war hero who saved Buckingham Palace from being severely damaged by German bombing during the Battle of Britain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Holmes - http://www.bbm.org.uk/as-holmes.htm