JUL22
1873 - Birth of Raymond d'Ecquevilly, French early aviation pioneer and aircraft designer.
http://www.precurseursaviation.com/ecquevilly.htm
1887 - Birth of James Dennis Payne, British WWI fighter ace and postwar barnstormer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dennis_Payne - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/payne1.php
1889 - Birth of Antony Habersack Jannus, more familiarly known as Tony Jannus, early American pilot. He flew the 1st airplane from which a parachute jump was made, and 1st airline pilot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Jannus
1895 - Birth of Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi, Belarusian Soviet aircraft constructor and designer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Sukhoi
1901 - Birth of Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes, American pioneer aviator, the founder of the 1st test pilots union and the owner of the Happy Bottom Riding Club (a bar and restaurant where Pancho became very close friends with many of the early test pilots, including Chuck Yeager, General Jimmy Doolittle, and Buzz Aldrin. Pancho's ranch became famous for the parties and high-flying lifestyle of all the guests). She broke Amelia Earhart's air speed record in 1930
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Barnes
1908 - The Breguet-Richet Gyroplane No.2 rose vertically to the respectable height of 4.5m and flew for a short period of time, apparently under control, but the machine was completely wrecked upon landing.
http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/breguet_gyro.php
1911 - The Daily Mail Circuit of Britain Air Race, British cross-country air race, starts at Brooklands in Surrey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail_Circuit_of_Britain_Air_Race
1916 - Birth of Rawdon Hume 'Ron' Middleton, Australian WWII bomber pilot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawdon_Hume_Middleton
1917 - Death of John Albert Page, Canadian WWI flying ace, Killed in action in his Sopwith Triplane.
http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/page.php
1917 - Death of John Edward Sharman, Canadian WWI flying ace, killed in action in his Sopwith Triplane by a direct hit from anti-aircraft fire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edward_Sharman - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/sharman.php
1918 - Death of Harold Thomas Mellings, British WWI fighter ace, killed in action in his Sopwith Camel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Mellings - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/mellings.php
1918 - Death of Indra Lal ("Laddie") Roy, 1st WWI Indian flying ace, in a dogfight with Fokker D.VIIs of Jasta 29 over Carvin, france.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra_Lal_Roy - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/india/roy.php
1920 - David R. Davis and airplane designer Donald Wills Douglas Sr. form the Davis-Douglas Company.
http://www.boeing.com/boeing/history/chronology/chron02.page
1921 - Birth of Umberto Bernardini, Italian test pilot, 1st italian to break the sound barrier.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Bernardini
1921 - Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. founds the Douglas Aircraft Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Aircraft_Company
1922 - Death of Zenos Ramsey Miller, American WWI flying ace, killed in a crash while attempting a transcontinental flight in an old Savoia-Marchetti aircraft he had purchased.
http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/miller3.php
1929 - Lufthansa uses a catapult to launch a Heinkel He 12 mail plane from the passenger liner Bremen, 400 km (249 miles) out of New York, speeding the mail on its way before the ship reached port.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_12
1931 - Sir Alan Cobham and crew start a 19,800 km (12,300 mile) flight between England and the Belgian Congo for an African survey in a Short Valletta.
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/british-civil-aviation/1931.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Valetta
1933 - Amy Johnson and Jim Mollison take off from Croydon in a de Havilland Dragon 'Seafarer' for a flight to New-York.
1933 - Wiley Post lands back at Floyd Bennett Field in his Lockheed Vega "Winnie Mae", 1st round the world solo flight after 7 days, 19 hours, a total distance of 25,099 km (15,596 miles)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiley_Post#First_solo_pilot - http://acepilots.com/post.html
1938 - Death of Ionel Fernic, Romanian composer, aviator (civil pilot), writer and one of the 1st Romanian parachutists, in the crash of a LOT Polish Airlines flight that mysteriously broke in two pieces in the air.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionel_Fernic
1938 - Death of Enrico Degli Incerti, italian flying ace of the spanish war. While doing aerobatics with a formation of Fiat CR.32s at 1,000 feet over Rimini, the propeller of his aircraft developed a defect. Coming down for an emergency landing, the Fiat suddenly rolled right and crashed into the side of a building.
http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/italy_degliincerti.htm - http://www.cieldegloire.com/009_degli_incerti_e.php
1939 - 1st flight of the Bloch MB-134, french 4 seat low wing monoplane twin engine medium bomber prototype
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloch_MB.134 - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=6339
1940 - 1st aircraft shot down by a fighter guided by its own airborne radar. A Bristol Blenheim IF of the Fighter Interception Unit, fitted with Airborne Intercept radar (AI), destroys a Dornier Do17 at night off Selsey Bill.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Blenheim#Blenheim_IF
1942 - Birth of Toyohiro Akiyama, Japanese TV journalist best known for his flight to the Mir space station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, 1st Japanese in space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyohiro_Akiyama
1942 – P-38F Lightning fighters of USAAF 14th Fighter Group depart Presque Isle, Maine, for the UK via Iceland, 1st single-seat fighters to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Operations_Group#World_War_II
1943 - Death of Ferruccio Serafini, Italian WWII flying ace, colliding his Macchi M.C.205 in a Curtiss P-40.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferruccio_Serafini
1943 - 1st flight of The Miles M.39B Libellula, British tandem wing aircraft twin engine, 5/8 scaled version of a proposed bomber type from the M.35.
http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/miles_m-39b.php
1943 - An Avro Lancaster bomber converted for use as a transport aircraft (Lancaster XPPs for Lancaster Mk.X Passenger Planes), inaugurates the Canadian Government’s Trans Atlantic Air Service, operated by Trans-Canada Air Lines, setting a non-stop speed record for a flight from Dorval Airport, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to Prestwick, Scotland, of 12 hours 26 minutes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Lancaster#Postwar
1948 - 1st flight of the Fouga CM-7, French twin seat glider prototype.
http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9254
1955 - 1st flight of The Republic XF-84H "Thunderscreech", American experimental turboprop aircraft derived from the F-84F Thunderstreak, Powered by a turbine engine that was mated to a supersonic propeller.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-84H
1962 – Mariner 1, US spacecraft for a Venus flyby mission, flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_1
1962 - Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 301 Bristol Britannia 314 departing from Honolulu International Airport had engine problems and returned to land on three engines, but when during an attempted go-around it crashed on the airfield, killing 27 of the 40 on board.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Pacific_Air_Lines_Flight_301
1965 - 1st flight of The second Orpheus-powered Helwan HA-300, Egyptian supersonic jet fighter prototype aircraft designed by Willy Messerschmitt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helwan_HA-300#HA-300
1973 - Pan Am flight 816 Boeing 707-321B crashed into the sea 30 seconds after take off from Faa'a International Airport in Papeete, killing all 78 over 79.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_816
1976 - 1st flight of The IAR-827, romanian agricultural aircraft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAR-827
1982 - Death of George Alexander Lingham, Australian WWI flying ace and later director of the Heston Aircraft Company .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lingham - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/australi/lingham.php
1983 - Death of William Ernest "Bull" Staton, British WWI fighter ace who pioneered the bombing technique of using pathfinders to mark targets during WWII and postwar high ranking RAF officer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ernest_Staton - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/staton.php
1983 - Dick Smith achieves the 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe in a helicopter. Smith makes the 56,742 kilometre (35,258 mile) journey in stages using a Bell Jetranger 206B named 'Australian Explorer'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Smith_(entrepreneur)#Aviation_and_adventures
1984 - 1st flight of The PZL AN-28, Polish STOL light cargo and passenger plane, licence-built Antonov An-28.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M28
1987 - Launch of Soyuz TM-3, 4th manned spacecraft to visit the Soviet space station Mir.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_TM-3
1989 - 11-year-old Anthony Aliengena followed by two chase planes carrying his family, journalists and his Soviet pen pal, Roman Tcheremnykh, completes its around-the-world journey landing back his Cessna 210 Centurion at John Wayne Airport in Orange County after having flown seven weeks and 21,567 miles.
http://today.smithsonianmag.com/history/?year=2006&month=7&day=22 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_Flight_'89
1993 - Soyuz TM-16, Russian space mission to Mir, is back on earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_TM-16
1993 - Launch of Hispasat 1B, Spanish communication satellite, by an Ariane IV launcher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispasat
1994 - Ron Bower lands back at Hurst, Texas with his Bell 206B-3, setting a new world record around the world flight for helicopters, having flown 24 days, 4 hours, 36 minutes and 24 seconds later, averaging 35.62 knots (40.99 mph, 65.97 km/h).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_206#Operational_history
1995 - STS-70, Space Shuttle Discovery mission, is back on earth