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17th Dec 2003.....Burt Rutan`s " SpaceShip One " becomes the first privately designed and manufactured manned aircraft to exceed the speed of sound.
22nd Dec 1945.....The first flight of the Beechcraft Bonanza.22nd Dec 1998.....The first flight of the Beechcraft Premier I.
22nd Dec 1999.....Korean Air Cargo flight 8509,a Boeing B747-2B5F HL7451 crashes shortly after takeoff from London Heathrow.Crew ignored warning alarms,all four crew died in the crash.
Quote from: Angry Turnip on December 22, 2017, 11:58:21 AM22nd Dec 1999.....Korean Air Cargo flight 8509,a Boeing B747-2B5F HL7451 crashes shortly after takeoff from London Heathrow.Crew ignored warning alarms,all four crew died in the crash.Minor correction; flight departed London Stansted rather than London Heatherow
24th Dec 1955.....NORAD tracks Santa for the first time.A Sears store in Colorado published a number for children to phone Santa,but a typo gave the number for the Director at Continental Air Defense Command.Once the mistake was noticed,the director told his team to give Santa`s position to who ever had called in.
23rd Dec 1974.....The first flight of the Rockwell B-1 Lancer strategic bomber takes place at Edwards Air Force Base.
If I remember correctly the Jimmy Carter government shelved it in the late 1970's and Regan brought it back in the 1980's.
28th Dec 1975.....The Soviet Union commissions the heavy aircraft carrying Cruiser " Kiev " It is the first Soviet or Russian ship capable of operating fixed wing aircraft.