AUG23

1885 - Birth of Henry Thomas Tizard, British chemist and inventor, Self taught test pilot for making aerodynamical observations, chairman of the Aeronautical Research Committee, he experimented in the composition of fuel, devising the concept of "toluene numbers" – now referred to as octane ratings, and he supervised and championed the development of RDF (radio-direction finding, later to become more familiarly known as radar) in the run-up to the war.

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

1888 - Birth of Thomas Proctor, Irish WWI flying ace.

http://theaerodrome.com/aces/ireland/proctor.php

1893 - Birth of Arnold Jacques Chadwick, Canadian WWI flying ace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Jacques_Chadwick - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/chadwick.php

1896 - Birth of Arnold Edward Ansell, British WWI flying ace

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

1897 - Birth of Antoine Joseph Henri Louis Paillard, French WWI flying ace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Paillard - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/france/paillard.php

1897 - Birth of Sidney Edward Cowan, Irish WWI flying ace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Cowan - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/ireland/cowan.php

1898 - Birth of Walter Alexander Tyrrell, Irish WWI fighter ace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Tyrrell - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/ireland/tyrrell1.php

1905 - Birth of Constantin 'Kostia' Wladimir Rozanoff, French WWII fighter pilot, test pilot, Colonel of the French Air Force, and one of the pioneers of jet aviation, chief-pilot at Dassault Aviation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Rozanoff - http://cieldegloire.com/004_rozanoff_k.php

1913 - Léon Letort carries out another non-stop flight between Paris and Berlin when he flies his Morane-Saulnier monoplane fitted with an 80-hp Le Rhône engine the 560 miles between the two capitals in 8 hours.

http://earlyaviators.com/eletort.htm

1916 – The Brazilian Navy establishes a naval aviation arm with the creation of a naval aviation school.

http://www.naval.com.br/anb/ANB-historico/ANB-hist00.htm - http://www.defesabr.com/MB/mb_ala_aerea_Parte1.htm

1918 - Death of John Playford "Jack" Hales, Canadian WWI flying ace, killed in his Sopwith Camel over the Somme by anti-aircraft fire.

http://theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/hales.php

1918 - Death of James Martin Child, British WWI flying ace, killed while trying to rescue a fellow airman from the wreckage of a crashed plane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martin_Child - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/england/child2.php

1918 - British WWI flying aces Arthur Rowe Spurling (pilot) and George Stanley Bell (Observer/gunner) flying a D.H.9 shot down 5 Fokker D.VII on a single mission.

http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/spurling.php - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/bell3.php

1921 – British airship R-38 (US Insignia ZR-2) experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only 4 survive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R38_class_airship#Operational_history

1923 - Death of Henry Croskey Mustin, American pioneering naval aviator who establised the 1st Naval Aeronautic Station (now Naval Air Station Pensacola) and performed the world's 1st catapulting of an aircraft from a ship underway.

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

1926 - 1st flight of The Sikorsky S-35,American twin-engined sesquiplane transport (later modified to three-engines), built for an attempt by Rene Fonck on a non-stop atlantic crossing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-35

1927 - 1st flight of the Blériot-SPAD 91, French single-seat single-bay biplane fighter prototype.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/france/bleriot_s-91.php - http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9215

1929 - 1st production Tupolev TB-1(development name ANT-4) 'Strana Sovyetov', Soviet angular monoplane bomber aircraft, begins its propaganda flight from Moscow to New York, taking an eastward course via Siberia.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/russia/ant-4.php

1929 - 1st flight of The Fokker F.IX, three-engine, high-wing monoplane developed in the Netherlands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_F.IX

1931 - Death of John Charles Bradley Firth, British WWI flying ace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._B._Firth - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/england/firth.php

1935 - 1st flight of the Latécoère 301, French 4 engine (in tandem) parasol wing mail plane flying boat, issued from the Laté 300.

http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=978

1936 - Death of Julio Ruiz de Alda Miqueleiz, Spanish raid aviator and politician.

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

1938 - Death of Frank Monroe Hawks, American record breaking aviator (using a series of Texaco-sponsored aircraft), Killed flying a Gwinn Aircar which crashed in East Aurora, New York. He took Amelia Earhart on her 1st flight.

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

1943 - Death of John de Havilland, british test pilot, son of Geoffrey de Havilland, the famous aircraft designer and manufacturer, During a test flight of a de Havilland Mosquito Mark VI, flying with flight test observer John H. F. Scrope, he collided in the vicinity of St Albans with another Mosquito Mark VI flown by pilot George Gibbins. Both aircraft were made of wood, and disintegrated in the air, killing all four occupants aboard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Havilland_(pilot)

1943 - RAF Bomber Command opens the preliminary phase of the 'Battle of Berlin' with a series of 3 major raids on the German capital.

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

1944 – A USAAF B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.

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

1946 - Death of Fulco VIII, Prince Ruffo di Calabria, 6th Duke of Guardia Lombarda, Italian WWI flying ace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulco_Ruffo_di_Calabria - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/italy/ruffo.php

1947 – Avro Tudor 2 prototype G-AGSU crashed on takeoff from Woodford killing designer Roy Chadwick and test pilot Sydney Albert 'Bill' Thorne

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Tudor#Tudor_II - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Chadwick

http://thetartanterror.blogspot.fr/2008/03/sydney-albert-bill-thorne-1901-1947.html

1948 - 1st flight of the McDonnell XF-85 Goblin, American prototype fighter aircraft intended to be carried in and deployed from the bomb bay of the giant Convair B-36 bomber as a parasite fighter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin

1950 - 1st flight of the Supermarine Type 535, British prototype jet fighter, evolution of the Attacker and which provided the basis for the development of the Supermarine Swift.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/supermarine_510.php

1952 - Birth of Klaus-Dietrich Flade, German Air Force pilot and German Aerospace Center cosmonaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus-Dietrich_Flade

1953 - 1st flight of the Short SB.6 Seamew, British lightweight anti-submarine carrier born aircraft.

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

1954 - 1st flight of The Lockheed C-130 Hercules, American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft which versatile airframe has found uses in a variety of other roles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_C-130_Hercules

1955 - 1st flight of The Westland Widgeon, British helicopter, improvement of the Westland WS-51 Dragonfly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_Widgeon_(helicopter)

1956 - Birth of David Alexander 'Bluto' Wolf, American astronaut, medical doctor and electrical engineer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wolf_(astronaut)

1958 - Birth of Fiorenzo Ramacci, Italian Air Force pilot.

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

1960 - Death 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

1961 - Death of Gotthard Sachsenberg, German WWI fighter ace, Baltic war pilot, Aero Lloyd Airline founder and designer of hydrofoils.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Sachsenberg - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/sachsenberg.php

1961 - Launch of Ranger 1, NASA unmanned spacecraft to test performance and parts necessary for carrying out subsequent lunar and planetary missions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_1

1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the 1st photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_1

1967 - Birth of Dominic Anthony "Tony" Antonelli, USN pilot and NASA astronaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_A._Antonelli

1970 - Death of François Eugene Marie Antoine de Boigne, French WWI flying ace

http://theaerodrome.com/aces/france/de_boigne.php

1976 - Death of Paul Adrien Gastin, French WWI flying ace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gastin - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/france/gastin.php

1977 - The Gossamer Condor became the 1st human-powered aeroplane, flying a figure-8 course to demonstrate sustained, controlled flight. It was capable of taking off under human power, piloted by amateur cyclist and hang-glider pilot Bryan Allen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_Condor#Design_and_development

1979 - Death of U.S. Navy Lieutenant M. Hugh Brown. He lost control of the squadron's MiG-17F of the U.S. Navy's Test and Evaluation Squadron FOUR (VX-4), He entered a spin while dogfighting a U.S. Navy F-5, recovered, but entered a second irrecoverable spin too low to eject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4477th_Test_%26_Evaluation_Squadron#Accidents

1983 - 1st flight of The Boeing Skyfox, American twin-engined jet trainer aircraft prototype, a highly upgraded development of the Lockheed T-33

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

1984 - Death of Gerald Frank Anderson, South African WWI flying ace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Frank_Anderson - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/safrica/anderson2.php

1990 - 1st flight of the Boeing VC-25, designation of a USAF passenger transportation aircraft, military version of the Boeing 747-200 B airliner, most famous for its role as Air Force One.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_VC-25

1992 - 1st flight of The HAL Dhruv, Indian utility helicopter in his civil version prototype.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_Dhruv#Development

2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 Airbus A320-212 on approach to Bahrain International Airport from Cairo, crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Air_Flight_072

2005 - TANS Peru Flight 204 Boeing 737-244 crashed while making an emergency landing during a hailstorm about 5.5 km south of Pucallpa killing 40 people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TANS_Peru_Flight_204

2009 - Wings of Bornholm, Danish airline, begins operations.

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

2010 - Death of Marcel Albert, French WWII fighter ace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Albert - http://cieldegloire.com/004_albert.php

2011 - Death of Robert Howden 'Bob' Fowler, Canadian WWII pilot and De Havilland Canada Test pilot.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=153266007#fbLoggedOut

http://thetartanterror.blogspot.fr/2007/10/robert-h-fowler-1922.html