JUNE02
1794 - Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle and Nicolas-Jacques Conté of the French army's "Aerostiers" at Maubeuge, France make the 1st military use of a balloon (l'entreprenant), when they observe enemy positions from their captive balloon.
http://napoleon-monuments.eu/ACMN/Coutelle.htm
1849 – 1st air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballonbombe#.C3.96sterreichische_Ballonbomben
1889 - Birth of Ernesto Cabruna, Italian WWI fighter ace.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Cabruna - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/italy/cabruna.php
1891 - Birth of Takijiro Onishi, Japanese early pilot and admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII, who came to be known as the father of the kamikaze.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takijir%C5%8D_%C5%8Cnishi
1891 - Birth of René Paul Louis Dousinelle, French WWI flying ace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Dousinelle - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/dousinelle.php
1892 - Birth of Charles A. Revol-Tissot, french WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Revol-Tissot - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/revol-tissot.php
1892 - Birth of Albert Desbrisay Carter, Canadian WWI fighter ace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Desbrisay_Carter - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/carter1.php
1894 - Birth of Roy Maxwell "Peter" Drummond, Australian WWI flying ace and high ranking WWII officer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Roy_Maxwell_Drummond - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/australi/drummond2.php
1894 - Birth of Josef "Seppl" Veltjens, German WWI fighter ace, International arms dealer, as well as a personal emissary from Hermann Göring to Benito Mussolini.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Veltjens - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/veltjens.php
1898 - Birth of John Victor Sorsoleil, Canadian WWI flying ace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Victor_Sorsoleil - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/sorsolei.php
1910 - Charles Rolls becomes the 1st man to make a non-stop double crossing of the Channel from Dover, England, in one hour, 35 minutes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rolls
1917 - Captain William 'Billy' Avery Bishop, 60 Squadron, flying a Nieuport 17, made a single-handed attack on a German aerodrome and shot down three enemy aircraft. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for this action.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bishop - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/bishop.php
1918 - Death of Pruett Mullens Dennett, British WWI flying ace, Killed in action near Estaires.
http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/dennett.php
1919 - Mansell Richard James, Canadian WWI flying ace, disappeared while competing for a $1,000 prize offered by the Boston Globe for fastest flight between Atlntic City and Boston on what was reputedly the 1st Sopwith Camel in the USA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansell_Richard_James - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/james.php
1920 - Birth of Marcel Charollais, French Aerobatic pilot.
http://charollais.marcel.over-blog.com/article-2251749.html
1921 - Death of Lucien Joseph Jailler, French WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_J._Jailler - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/jailler.php
1923 - 1st flight of The Boeing Model 15, US open-cockpit biplane fighter aircraft .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Model_15
1930 - Birth of Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. , American naval officer, test pilot, astronaut and engineer, and the third person to walk on the Moon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Conrad
1932 - French Louis Massotte set a World speed record over 500 km at 308,779 km/h with the SPAD S-91/7.
http://clec.uaicf.asso.fr/recherches_patrimoniales/louis_massotte.htm - http://www.aviafrance.com/spad-s-91-7-aviation-france-7953.htm
1933 - Frank Hawks flew his Northrop Gamma 2A "Sky Chief" (American single-engine all-metal monoplane cargo aircraft) from Los Angeles to New York in a record 13 hours, 26 minutes, and 15 seconds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Gamma
1936 - 1st flight of The LACAB GR.8, Belgian multi-role combat aircraft prototype, twin-engined biplane, which was intended to carry out bombing and reconnaissance missions, as well as act as an escort fighter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LACAB_GR.8
1936 - 1st flight of the Potez 65 (or potez 650), French Twin engine Mitary transport aircraft. Derived from the Potez 62 airliner, the 650 was specifically built for paratrooper units.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potez_65
1941 - 1st escort carrier of the US Navy, USS Long Island (AVG-1) is commissioned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Long_Island_(CVE-1)
1942 - Nos. 8, 111 and 118 RCAF Squadrons moved to Alaska to join No. 115 Squadron already there, to work with the US Forces against the Japanese threat.
1943 - A Short Sunderland Mark III of No.461 Squadron, RAAF is attacked over the Bay of Biscay by 8 Junkers Ju88s. The ensuing combat last for 45 minutes and sees the Sunderland shoot down three of the attacking Ju88s. The Sunderland is badly damaged, with one of its crew killed and three wounded. Nevertheless, the pilot, Flight Lieutenant C.B. Walker brings the aircraft safely back
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sunderland#Second_World_War
1944 - Operation Frantic : 1st shuttle-bombing mission using Soviet bases to attack Eastern European targets. 130 B-17s, escorted by 70 P-51 Mustangs, took off from Italy and landed at Poltava, Mirgorod and Piriatyn, Soviet Union, after bombing Debrecen, Hungary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frantic#Operations
1949 - 1st flight of the Adam RA-17 Loisirs, French single-seat high-wing agricultural aircraft prototype derived from the RA-15
http://www.aviafrance.com/adam-ra-17-aviation-france-10129.htm
1950 - Death of Didier Masson, pioneering French aviator, barnstormer, 2nd flier in history to bomb a surface warship, WWI fighter pilot and early manager of Pan American World Airways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Masson
1955 - The Baikonur Cosmodrome opens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikonur_Cosmodrome
1956 - 1st flight of the Boisavia B-260 'Anjou' (later developed by SIPA as the Sipavia Anjou), French four-seat low-wing cantilever monoplane of conventional configuration with retractable tricycle undercarriage twin-engine light aircraft prototype.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boisavia_Anjou - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9700
1956 - Birth of Mark Lewis "Roman" Polansky , American aerospace engineer, research pilot and NASA astronaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_L._Polansky
1957 - 1st solo balloon flight into the stratosphere (the upper portion of the atmosphere above seven miles) is made by U.S. Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr. In his plastic balloon Manhig 1, he stays in the air for six hours, 36 minutes and reaches an altitude of 96,000 feet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Manhigh
1958 - 1st flight of The Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III (V-401), US aircraft developed by Chance Vought as a successor to the successful F-8 Crusader program and as a competitor to the F-4 Phantom II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_XF8U-3_Crusader_III
1959 - Max Conrad takes off his Comanche 250 N110LF for a non-stop from Casablanca, Morocco to Los Angeles, a distance of 7,668 mi (12,340 km). With interior seats replaced by fuel tanks, the aircraft was loaded 2,000 lb (910 kg) over its production gross weight limit when Conrad took off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Conrad
1962 - 1st flight of the Jodel D-150 'Mascaret', French twin seat low wing monoplane light tourer/trainer aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAN_Jodel_D.150_Mascaret - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=1593
1962 - Launch of OSCAR II (aka OSCAR 2), second amateur radio satellite launched by Project OSCAR into Low Earth Orbit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_2
1965 - 1st flight of The Aerotec A-122 Uirapuru, Brazilian side by side military trainer aircraft, low-wing monoplane with tricycle undercarriage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerotec_Uirapuru
1966 - Robert Wallick and co-pilot wife Joan start a round the world flight from Manila, Philippine, with a twin engined Beech Baron C-55 called 'Philippine Baron'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_and_Joan_Wallick
1966 - Surveyor 1, 1st lunar soft-lander in the unmanned Surveyor program, lands on the moon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_1
1970 - 1st flight of The Northrop M2-F3, US heavyweight lifting body rebuilt from the Northrop M2-F2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_M2-F3
1972 - 1st flight of The Aérospatiale SA 360 Dauphin, single-engine French utility helicopter developed as a replacement for Aérospatiale's Alouette III.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9rospatiale_SA_360 - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=2375
1976 - Death of Paul Augustin Edouard Barbreau, French WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Barbreau - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/barbreau.php
1978 - Birth of Yi So-yeon, South Korean scientist, 1st Korean and 2nd Asian woman to fly in space
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_So-Yeon
1981 - 1st flight of the Grinvalds G-801 'Orion', French twin seat tourer composite kit- and homebuilt pusher aircraft prototype.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinvalds_Orion
1983 - Air Canada Flight 797, a DC-9 experienced an electrical fire in the aft lavatory during flight, resulting in an emergency landing at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. During evacuation, the sudden influx of oxygen caused a flash fire throughout the cabin, resulting in the deaths of 23 of the 41 passengers, including Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797
1984 - Death of Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyul'ka, Soviet scientist and designer of jet engines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkhip_Mikhailovich_Lyulka
1986 - Randy Haney set the record for hang-glide distance by traveling 199.75 miles (321.47 km) in his unpowered glider in British Columbia.
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/thismonth/this_month_june.html
1988 - Death of Lawrence Percival Coombes, British WWI fighter ace and aero engineer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Coombes - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/coombes.php
1994 - A Royal Air Force (RAF) Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed in dense fog on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, killing all 25 passengers and 4 crew on board.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Scotland_RAF_Chinook_crash
1995 - USAF Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. The pilot ejected safely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrkonji%C4%87_Grad_incident
1998 - Launch of STS-91, Space shuttle Discovery mission, final Space Shuttle mission to the Mir space station.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-91
2003 - Launch of Mars Express, ESA space exploration mission of Mars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Express
2003 - Air France's Concorde takes off from Paris to New york for its last round trip.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
2008 - Servicio Mexicano de Vuelos de Fletamento S. A. de C. V., operating as AeroMéxico Travel, charter flight subsidiary of AeroMéxico, started operations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerom%C3%A9xico_Travel
2009 - Death of John "JE" Ernsting, senior British military commander and renowned researcher in the Altitude Division of the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, working on Partial-pressure suit assemblies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ernsting
2012 – Allied Air Flight 111 Boeing 727-221Adv(F) cargo plane, in rain and poor visibility, overruns the runway on landing at Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana, and strikes a crowded minibus and a bicyclist on a nearby road. All four people on the plane survive, but the bicyclist and all 11 people on the minibus die.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Air_Flight_111
2014 - Markus Scherdel make the 1st flight of the Solar Impulse 2, Swiss long-range solar-powered aircraft designed to achieve the first circumnavigation of the Earth by a piloted fixed-wing aircraft using only solar power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse#Final_aircraft_.28HB-SIB.29