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1910 - Walter Brookins attains an altitude of 6,175 feet in a Wright biplane, becoming the 1st to fly a mile high and wins a prize of $5,000 for his feat.

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

1914 - Reinhold Böhm takes off in his Albatros-biplane for a 24 hours and 12 minutes nonstop flight without refueling.

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1914/1914%20-%200748.html

1916 - 1st flight of The Savoia-Pomilio SP.2, Italian biplane reconnaissance and bomber aircraft, refined version of the SP.1, basic configuration from the Farman MF.11.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savoia-Pomilio_SP.2

1918 - Death of James John Scaramanga, British WWI flying ace (as observer), from wounds received in his Bristol F.2b during a dogfight. Regaining consciousness and with his one good arm shoot down the attacking Pfalz D.III.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Scaramanga - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/scaramanga.php

1919 - British rigid airship, R-34, takes off from Long Island, New York, for a trip back to Pulham, Norfolk, for the 1st Atlantic double-crossing (return flight).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R33_class_airship

1919 - Death of Jean Marie Dominique Navarre, French WWI fighter ace and test pilot. While practicing for a flight through the Arc de Triomphe, Navarre crashed his Morane-Saulnier and died at Villacoublay.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Navarre - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/navarre.php - http://navarre-jean.com/

1920 - Birth 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

1922 - Aircraft Development Corporation (later renamed Detroit Aircraft Corporation) is incorporated.

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

1924 – Japanese aircraft sink a ship for the 1st time, when Imperial Japanese Navy bombers use level bombing from an average height of 1,000 m (3,281 feet) over the course of four hours to sink the retired coast defense battleship Iwami off Yokosuka.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%B3%E8%A6%8B_(%E6%88%A6%E8%89%A6) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Oryol#Japanese_career

1926 - Hubert Standford Broad wins the King's Cup Race, annual British handicapped cross-country air race , with a de Havilland DH.60 Moth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Cup_Race

1929 - 1st flight of The Macchi M.67, Italian racing seaplane designed for the Schneider Trophy race.

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macchi_M.67

1929 - 1st flight of the Albert A-10, French High wing monoplane 4 seat single engine transport prototype.

http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9733 - http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_anonyme_des_Avions_Albert

1929 - 1st flight of the Blériot Bl-127/4, French twin engine 5 seat bomber prototype.

http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=1167

1933 - The 2nd Breda Ba.27 prototype (Italian low-wing braced monoplane fighter) flew from Milan to Rome-Montecelio in 90 min at an average speed of 334km/h.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/italy/breda-27.php

1935 - Air Bleu starts daily mail operations in France using Caudron C.630 Simoun.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Bleu - http://www.aviastar.org/air/france/caudron_c-630.php

1935 - The Bell Aircraft Company is formed.

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

1938 - Howard Hughes takes off in a Lockheed Super Electra from Floyd Bennett Field, New York, for a global circumnavigation flight with four crewmates (Harry Connor, copilot and navigator; Tom Thurlow, navigator; Richard Stoddart, radio operator; and Ed Lund, flight engineer)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Model_14_Super_Electra#Record-breaking_flights

1939 - 1st flight of the Dewoitine D-720, French 3 seat twin engine army cooperation aircraft prototype.

http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/KleinBernhard/8003.htm - http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=321

1939 - 1st flight of the SNCAC NC-410, French twin engine torpedo bomber prototype.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCAC_NC.4-10

1939 - The Willoughby Delta 8 (or delta F), british small twin-engined aerodynamic test bed for a proposed flying wing airliner, crashes killing pilot Hugh Olley and the Delta's designer, Percival Willoughby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willoughby_Delta_8

1940 - The preliminary phase of the Battle of Britain, the Kanalkampf, or Channel battle, begins with German attacks on convoys in the English Channel and the ports along Britain's southern coast.

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

1942 - American PBY Catalina piloted by Lieutenant William "Bill" Thies spotted the wreckage of a Mitsubishi A6M Zero Japanese fighter plane that crash-landed on Akutan Island, Alaska Territory. Later captured intact, it became the 1st flyable Zero acquired by the United States during the war and flown by American test pilots.

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

1942 - Birth of Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk, Soviet cosmonaut and 1st Belarusian to perform space travel

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

1942 - 1st flight of The Douglas A-26 Invader (B-26 between 1948–1965), American twin-engined light attack bomber.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_A-26_Invader

1943 - Death of Guido Nobili, Spanish war Italian flying ace and WWII pilot, killed in action in his Reggiane Re2002.

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

1944 - The Messerschmitt Me-262 becomes the world's 1st turbojet-powered aircraft to enter operational service at Juvincourt, France

http://www.aviastar.org/air/germany/me-262.php

1947 - 1st flight of The Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador, British twin piston engined airliner.

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

1950 - Avro Canada TR.5 Orenda, 1st production jet engine from Avro Canada's Gas Turbine Division, makes it's 1st flight with a converted Avro Lancaster of which the 2 outboard Merlin engines were replaced with the Orendas.

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

1952 - Prototype Supermarine Swift (British single-seat swept-wing fighter) established an international point-to-point record between London and Brussels, covering 320km in 18 minutes 3.3 seconds, representing a speed of 1,071.7km/h.

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

1953 - New York Airways becomes the 1st scheduled helicopter carrier in the USA and the 1st passenger helicopter carrier in the world

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

1955 - Death of Étienne Oehmichen, French engineer and helicopter designer.

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

1959 - 1st flight of the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152A, prototype single-seat fighter/interceptor , part of the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-150 family.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_Ye-152

1961 - Death of Francis May Simonds, American WWI flying ace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Simonds - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/simonds.php

1962 - Launch of Telstar 1, 1st satellite to relay television signals. It successfully relayed through space the 1st television pictures, telephone calls, fax images and provided the 1st live transatlantic television feed.

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

1964 - 1st flight of the Dassault 'Mystère' 20, French business jet.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst%C3%A8re-Falcon - http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9932

1965 - Skyways Coach-Air Avro 748-101 Series 1 crashed on landing at Lympne Airport, Kent, UK, due to the grass runway being unable to support the weight of the aircraft during a heavy landing. This caused the nose wheels to dig in and the aircraft to overturn, losing both wings and the starboard tailplane in the process. All 52 people on board survived. A concrete runway was later installed at Lympne.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Skyways_Coach-Air_Avro_748_crash

1965 - 1st USAF aerial victories of the Vietnam War are scored by F-4C Phantoms of the 45th Tactical Fighter Squadron against North Vietnamese MiG-17s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-4_Phantom#United_States_Air_Force

1967 – Air Pacific, Fijian airline (later Air Fiji), begin operations.

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

1968 - 1st flight of The Mil V-12 (also referred to as the Mi-12, NATO reporting name "Homer"), largest helicopter ever built.

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

1985 - Aeroflot Flight 7425 Tupolev Tu-154B-2 stalled at high altitude and entered a flat spin, crashing near Uchkuduk, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union, killing all 200 on board

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_7425

1991 - L'Express Airlines Flight 508 Beech C99 crashed while attempting to make an ILS approach at Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, in the Fairview area near Five Points West in the Ensley neighborhood, Killing 13 over 15.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Express_Airlines_Flight_508

2000 - EADS is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, Dornier, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA), and Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EADS#Formation

2004 - 1st flight of The Comp Air Jet, American eight-seat, low-wing, pressurized, tricycle undercarriage, turbofan-powered civil utility aircraft for amateur construction.

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

2005 - Launch of Suzaku (formerly ASTRO-EII), Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzaku_(satellite)

2006 - Pakistan International Airlines PIA Flight 688, operated by a Fokker F.27, crashes in Pakistan after bursting into flames a few minutes after takeoff, with the loss of all 45 on board.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIA_Flight_688

2013 - 1st ever landing of UAV/RPA on an aircraft carrier : A Northrop Grumman X-47B, American unmanned combat air vehicle, succesfully landed on the carrier USS George H.W. Bush.

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