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1940 - 1st flight of The Junkers Ju 288, German twin engine bomber.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_288

1940 - Death of Stanley Cockerell, WWI flying ace and test pilot for Vickers, killed during a German bombing raid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cockerell - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/cockerell.php

1941 - Death of Pavel Alexandrovich Kaykov, Soviet WWII flying ace. He splintered the tail fin of the Bf 109 he was chasing with the propeller of his Polikarpov I-153 but was unable to bail out and fatally crashed.

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

1942 - Death of Boyd David "Buzz" Wagner, American aviator and 1st USAAF fighter ace of WWII, killed in the crash of his Curtiss P-40K during a routine flight from Eglin Field, Florida to Maxwell Field, Alabama.

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

1942 - Death of Rawdon Hume 'Ron' Middleton, Australian WWII bomber pilot. His Stirling I bomber was hit by flak on his way back from a raid over Turin, he managed to reach the coast of england to allow whis crew to bail out safely. His aircraft crashed in the Channel just after.

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

1944 - Death of Takeo Kanamaru, Japanese WWII flying ace, killed in action

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_aces_from_Japan#K

1945 - 1st air-sea rescue by helicopter takes place when seamen are rescued from an oil barge by a Sikorsky R5 at Long Island Sound.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/world-aviation/1945.aspx

1945 - Col. Joseph Holzapple lands his Douglas A-26 Invader In washington DC after a 96 hours, and 50 minutes round-the-world trip from Savannah, Georgia, demonstrating the ability of U.S. light bombers to reach any point in the world quickly.

http://books.google.fr/books?id=Br3zsp8pvGYC&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=Douglas+A-26+Invader+Holzapple&source=bl&ots=4Phs_fK_w2&sig=Z_PhW6KWzz_7zlpo9sjCM7tF6ak&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=dz2GUvPYNKmh0QX3k4FY&ved=0CE0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Douglas%20A-26%20Invader%20Holzapple&f=false

http://www.wingnet.org/rtw/RTW003W.htm

1946 - Death of Ernst Freiherr von Althaus, German WWI flying ace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Freiherr_von_Althaus - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/althaus.php

1949 - Birth of Kenneth Donald Cameron, USMC test pilot and NASA astronaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_D._Cameron

1949 - American Airlines Flight 157 Douglas DC-6 'Flagship of South Carolina' slid off the runway and struck a parked airplane, a hangar, and a flight school before crashing into a business across from the airport at Love Field in Dallas, Texas, Killing 28 over 46. After one engine failed in mid-flight, a series of critical mistakes by the flight crew caused the pilot to lose control of the plane during the final approach

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_157

1949 - Jacqueline Cochran set a 436,995 mph international record for 500 kilometers (310.685 miles) in an F-51 at Desert Center, California on the Mount Wilson course

http://books.google.fr/books?id=Br3zsp8pvGYC&pg=PA174&lpg=PA174&dq=cochran+Mount+Wilson+Course&source=bl&ots=4PbtXgBYr5&sig=MacQgdyuswFQwEFx1t75uLRl_tA&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=yWf9TqfwLsXS8gOE6ZSmAQ&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=cochran%20Mount%20Wilson%20Course&f=false

1950 - Death of Walter Herschel Beech, American pioneer aviator, co-founder with his wife of Beech Aircraft Company.

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

1961 - Caledonian Airways, Scottish private charter airline, begins operations.

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

1961 - Launch of Mercury-Atlas 5, American unmanned spaceflight carrying Enos, 1st chimpanzee on orbit. The spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico. According to observers, Enos jumped for joy and ran around the deck of the recovery ship enthusiastically shaking the hands of his rescuers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_5 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enos_(chimpanzee)

1962 - Death of Graham Conacher Young, Scottish WWI flying ace

http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=203576 - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/scotland/young1.php

1963 - Trans Canada Air Lines Flight 831 Douglas DC-8 crashed just after take off at Therese de Blainville, Canada. All 118 on board were killed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Air_Lines_Flight_831

1964 - Death of George Raymond Henderson, US navy aviator, record setter, WWII and korean war high ranking officer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Henderson

1965 - Launch of Alouette II, Canadian research satellite designed to explore the ionosphere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alouette_2

1967 - Launch of WRESAT-1 (abbreviation for: Weapons Research Establishment Satellite), 1st Australian satellite.

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

1974 - 1st flight of The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, American four-bladed, twin-engine, medium-lift utility helicopter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_UH-60_Black_Hawk

1974 - 1st flight of The Boeing Vertol YUH-61 (Model 179), American twin turbine-engined, medium-lift, military assault/utility helicopter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Vertol_YUH-61

1975 - A piper Aztec crashed while attempting to land in foggy conditions near Arkley golf course in North London. The crash resulted in the death of the whole the Embassy Hill Formula 1 team : team manager Ray Brimble, mechanics Tony Alcock and Terry Richards, up-and-coming driver Anthony William 'Tony' Brise , designer Andy Smallman and famous driver/founder Norman Graham Hill. Graham Hill is the only driver to have won the Triple Crown of Motorsport — the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Indianapolis 500 and Formula One World Championship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hill#Death - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Brise

1987 – Korean Air Flight 858 Boeing 707-3B5C explodes over the Thai-Burmese border after two North Korean agents planted a bomb in the passenger cabin, killing 155.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_858

1989 - 1st flight of The Vought YA-7F "Strikefighter", American prototype transonic attack aircraft based on the subsonic A-7 Corsair II.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_YA-7F

1993 - Death of Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata, pioneer aviator and important businessman of India who launched Air India International as India's 1st international airline.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._D._Tata

1995 - 1st flight of The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, American twin-engine carrier-based multirole fighter aircraft. The F/A-18E single-seat variant and F/A-18F tandem-seat variant are larger and more advanced derivatives of the F/A-18C and D Hornet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_F/A-18E/F_Super_Hornet

2003 - A Democratic Republic of Congo Air Force Antonov An-26 crashed during take-off due to a burst tyre, killing 20 of the 24 people on board and 13 people on the ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-26#Accidents_and_incidents

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20031129-0

2006 - Death of Werner Utter, German pilot, one of the 1st pilot for Lufthansa, who flew more of 100 types of aircraft from sailplanes to Jumbo Jet.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Utter

2007 - Atlasjet Flight 4203 McDonnell Douglas MD-83 crashed outside the town of Keçiborlu, 18 km (11 mi) from Isparta, killing all 57

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlasjet_Flight_4203

2012 – The U.S. Navy successfully conducts the 1st land-based catapult launch of the Northrop Grumman X-47B (unmanned combat air vehicle) at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B#Flight_testing