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General Aviation Discussion => On This Day ... => Topic started by: Angry Turnip on January 11, 2018, 08:00:51 PM
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The old On This Day section has been moved to this new location.I hope forum members find it to be of interest.
11th Jan 1911.....The first landing of an aircraft on a ship took place when Eugene Ely landed a Curtis pusher landed on a temporary platform on USS Pennsylvania.
11th Jan 1918.....The death of German WWI Ace Hans Kummetz,killed in action in Italy.
11th Jan 1922.....Birth of Neville Fredrick Duke.British WWII Ace and later a test pilot.
11th Jan 1933.....The first flight of the British torpedo bomber prototype,the Vickers type 207.Only one was built.
11th Jan 1935.....Amelia Earhart makes the first female solo flight from Honolulu to Oakland California in her Lockheed Vega.
11th Jan 1941.....The first flight of the Soviet prototype fighter,the Polikarpov I-185.
11th Jan 1947.....The first flight of the McDonnell F2 H Banshee.
11th Jan 1962.....The Boeing VC-137 C took on the role of US Presidential and VIP transport,and a second aircraft was delivered later.SAM 26000 an SAM 27000.
11th Jan 1978.....The first flight of the unusual mixed power flight aircraft,the Gulfstream American Hustler executive aircraft.
11th Jan 1989.....The first flight of another unusual type,the US built AASI Jetcruzer,a turbo prop pusher propeller aircraft.
11th Jan 1990.....Yet more aeronautical oddness,this time the US Government awards Bell Helicopters $123Million contract to develop for the V-22 Osprey.Early flights had taken place in 1989.
11th Jan 2008.....Airbus delivers Singapore Airlines it`s 2nd Airbus A380,the first was delivered 27th Oct 2007.
11th Jan 2011.....The first flight of the Chinese stealth 5th generation fighter and MRCA,the Chengdu J-20.
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11th Jan 1978.....The first flight of the unusual mixed power flight aircraft,the Gulfstream American Hustler executive aircraft.
The original Hustler 400 was even odder. in the tail it had a J402 turbojet, as used in the Harpoon ASM! That didn't have enough thrust to keep the aircraft airborne if the PT6A in the nose failed but was intended as a booster.
They changed the booster to an F107 ( as in the ALCM ) but after the merger of American Jet into Gulfstream the engine became a big JT15D turbofan which qualified it as a twin-engined aircraft as the Hustler 500.
In 1980 Gulfstream removed the PT6A from the nose and grafted a two-seat cockpit to make the Peregrine 600 for the USAF's NGT trainer competition.
After that the whole Hustler / Peregrine idea faded out. I really should find out what happened.
OK, turns-out Gulfstream abandoned the dual-engine idea and put a bizjet front-end onto the Peregrine trainer rear-end, then changed the engine to a TFE731. And then gave up in 1985. Officially it is still 'suspended'.
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12th Jan 1866.....The Aeronautical Society Of Great Britain is founded in London,it later became known as The Royal Aeronautical Society,and is still going strong to this day.
12th Jan 1912.....The first flight of the Curtis Model F,an early utility flying boat.
12th Jan 1916.....German Aces Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke,with 8 confirmed kills are the first to be awarded The Blue Max.
12th Jan 1922.....The first flight of the Mitsubishi 2MR,a Japanese carrier based recon aircraft.
12th Jan 1926.....The first flight of the Soviet Polikarpov DI-1,two seat fighter,only one was completed.
12th Jan 1929.....The first US Air Mail stamped envelopes go on sale.
12th Jan 1931.....The first flight of the British biplane bomber prototype,the Vickers Type 163,just a single example was built.
12th Jan 1965.....The last of the 820 Boeing KC-135 aerial tankers id delivered to the USAF.
12th Jan 1970.....A PAN AM Boeing 747 on a proving flight,is the first wide-bodied airliner to land at London Heathrow.
12th Jan 1975.....British Airways introduces Europe`s first no-booking shuttle service-the route is London to Glasgow.
12th Jan 1979.....Pilatus aircraft acquires Britten-Norman.
12th Jan 1990.....Air Inter and UTA are merged into Air France.
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This thread is great for digging-out historical nuggets but for some reason doesn't appear on the front page of the forum!
12th Jan 1979.....Pilatus aircraft acquires Britten-Norman.
BN had a crap decade in the 1970s, that was the second time they were sold. The first had been to Fairey in 1972.
The second sale was initiated by Lloyds Bank and one of the other investors forcing receivership in 1977. One of few bids at that stage was from... Shorts. But their bid was rejected and BN flapped around for another year until Pilatus stepped-in.
With all that churn they never did get to develop the triple-Dart, 30-tonne Mainlander :(
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Some more bits of aviation history.....
13th Jan 1908.....The first European to fly one kilometre in a circle is frenchman Henri Farman in a Voisin-Farman airplane.
13th Jan 1908.....The Aero Club Argentino is formed in Buenos Aires.
13th Jan 1916.....The Curtis Aeroplane and Motor Company is founded.
13th Jan 1930.....The first flight of the French Farman F.300,a tri motor airliner.
13th Jan 1940.....The first flight of the Soviet fighter aircraft the Yakovlev-Yak-1.
13th Jan 1942.....Helmut Schenk,a test pilot for Heinkel,becomes the first person to use an ejection seat sucessfully,when he loses control of his Heinkel HE280 V1 due to icing.
13th Jan 1942.....The first practical helicopter with a single rotor makes it`s first flight,flown by Igor Sikorsky.
13th Jan 1960.....The first flight of the Canadian Canadair CT-114 Tutor,a jet trainer as used by the RCAF Snowbirds Display Team.
13th Jan 1961.....The Convair B-58 Hustler jet bomber with GE-79 engines and flown by Maj.HJ Deutschendorf broke six world speed records.Highest average speed over a course was 1200.194 MPH
13th Jan 1975.....The F-16 Fighting Falcon wins the LWF competition.
13th Jan 1977.....The first flight of the French Fournier RF-9, a 2 seat motor glider.
13th Jan 2010.....German Airline Blue Wings ceased operations.
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14th Jan 1909.....Wilbur,Orville,and their sister Katharine move to Pau in the south of France.
14th Jan 1934.....The first flight of the four engined de Havilland DH 86 Express.
14th Jan 1935.....Following tests using a Boeing 247,United Airways decides to equip it`s fleet with a wing de-icing system.
14th Jan 1942.....The first flight of the Sikorsky R-4 light helicopter.It was the first helicopter to enter service with US and UK Military forces.
14th Jan 1943.....Franklin D.Roosevelt becomes the first US President to travel by airplane while in office;he flies to Morroco via Florida to meet with Winston Churchill.
14th Jan 1949.....A RCAF North Star completed the first non-stop flight across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax.
14th Jan 1950.....The first flight of the Mig-17 ( Fresco ) fighter.
14th Jan 1952.....The first flight of the French light sports jet,the SIPA S.200 Minijet,7 were built.
14th Jan 1953.....The first flight of the Convair F2Y Sea Dart,a jet powered fighter seaplane,only 5 built.
14th Jan 1958.....Qantas are the first foreign airline granted permission to fly across the US.
14th Jan 1960.....The first flight of the Piper PA-28 Cherokee,over 32,000 have been delivered in various versions.
14th Jan 1969.....The launch of Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4,which was to dock with Soyoz 5.
14th Jan 2001.....The death of Luigi Broglio,an Italian aerospace engineer,he was known as " the Italian von Braun."
14th Jan 2013.....French Rafales join with Mirage 2000`s as the French air campaign in Mali expands.
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A bit late but here's one I just read in a book:
10 Jan 1947: Westland obtained their first license to build the designs of the Sikorsky division of the United Aircraft Corporation, and their sale outside North America.
Things became a bit more complicated in the mid-60s when Agusta obtained a license for the S-61. It's hard to compete against someone called Count Corrado Agusta.
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15th Jan 1914.....The first regular scheduled air in the US begins with flights between St.Petersburg and Tampa Florida by The Benoist Company using a Benoist flying boat.
15th Jan 1916.....The first aircraft to be launched from a submarine is a German lightweight float plane,a Freidrichshafen FF29.
15th Jan 1927.....Boeing Air Transport that would later become United Airlines,begins airmail flights between Chicago and San Francisco.
15th Jan 1931.....Gen.Italo Balbo leads the first formation flight across the South Atlantic.The 12 Savoia Marchetti S.55`s depart from Orbetllo Italy and land in Rio De Janeiro.
15th Jan 1935.....Maj James Doolittle sets a record for a transport flight across the US,from LA to Newark,New Jersey in 11hrs 59 mins.
15th Jan 1935.....The first flight of the RWD-13,a Polish 3 seater,high wing monoplane.
15th Jan 1937.....The first flight of the French Liore et Olivier Leo 45,a twin medium bomber.
15th Jan 1937.....The first flight of the Beechcraft Model 18.
15th Jan 1943.....The first flight of the US fighter prototype,the Vultee XP-54,only 2 built.
15th Jan 1947.....The first flight of the Kaman K-225 helicopter.
15th Jan 1954.....The first flight of the French delta wing research aircraft,the Nord Gerfaut.
15th Jan 1973.....The last mission of a Boeing B-52 in the Vietnam War.
15th Jan 2002.....The first flight of the Airbus A318.
15th Jan 2009.....US Airways flight 1549,an Airbus A320-214 (N106US) ditches in the Hudson after a birdstrike shortly after departing LaGuardia Airport. Bravo Cpt Sullenberger and crew. ;D
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16th Jan 1916.....Byron Q.Jones sets a new duration record of 8hrs and 53 minutes,his aircraft is a Martin Tractor Biplane.
16th Jan 1929.....Lady Mary Bailey makes her return flight to London from Cape Town in her DH.60 Moth.
16th Jan 1963.....The first UK Female Airline pilot to fly international routes is Yvonne Pope flying for Morton Air Service on the Gatwick to Dusseldorf route.
16th Jan 1969.....Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 dock making the first docking of two manned spacecraft,and the first exchange of crew from one spacecraft to another.
16th Jan 1980.....British Island Airways and Air Anglia merge to form Air UK.
16th Jan 1991.....Eastern Airlines is wound up after 64 years of operations.
16th Jan 2013.....The FAA issues an Emergency Grounding Order on the Boeing 787 .
16th Jan 2018.....Joint Helicopter Command hold an event to mark the retirement of the Westland Lynx.
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17th Jan 1906.....German Zeppelin LZ-2 makes it`s first flight achieving a speed of 25mph.It was destroyed the next day after a forced landing and damage due to high winds.
17th Jan 1936.....The USAAC places an order for 13 Boeing Y1 B-17 Flying Fortresses,previously known as the Boeing Model 299.
17th Jan 1939.....The French prototype fighter the Renard R-36 is destroyed in a fatal accident,the pilot was Lt.Visconte Eric De Spoelberg.
17th Jan 1941.....The RCAF agrees to form 25 squadrons in the UK over an 18 month period as part of the Sinclair-Ralston agreement.
17th Jan 1948.....The first flight of a RCAF de Havilland Vampire in Canada.
17th Jan 1948.....BOAC begins to phase out the Boeing 314 flying boat and switch to the Lockheed Constellation.
17th Jan 1963.....The first flight of the Short SC.7 Skyvan.It was powered with a pair of Continental GTSIO-520 piston engines.Later in 1963 the Turbomeca Astazou`s were used.
17th Jan 1963.....The North American X-15A is flown by Joe Walker to a height of 82,600m or 271,000 feet :o As he has flown to more than 50 miles he qualifies for astronaut wings.
17th Jan 1970.....The first flight of the Sukhoi T-6-2IG ,prototype of the Soviet Sukhoi SU-24 all weather attack aircraft.
17th Jan 1991.....The first gulf war begins with a United Nations sanctioned massive air assault against Iraqi forces,after they invade Kuwait.
17th Jan 1994.....The Airbus A330-300 enters service with Air Inter.
17th Jan 2008.....BA flight 38,a Boeing B777-200ER G-YMMM crash landed 1000ft short of runway 27L at LHR.This was the first loss of a B777 due to operational incident.
Ice in the fuel was identified as the likely cause,but in 2009 it was identified as a problem specific to the RR engines oil-fuel heat exchangers. :-\
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17th Jan 1963.....The first flight of the Short SC.7 Skyvan.It was powered with a pair of Continental GTSIO-520 piston engines.Later in 1963 the Turbomeca Astazou`s were used.
And snow didn't stop play :D
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18th Jan 1906.....Zeppelin LZ-2 is destroyed in high winds.
18th Jan 1916.....The first offical flight of the Junkers J1,a brief hop had been achieved in Dec 1915.
18th Jan 1935.....The first flight of the German dive bomber,the Blohm & Voss Ha137.
18th Jan 1938.....The RCAF received the first of it`s order of 1380+ Tiger Moth trainers.
18th Jan 1957.....Three USAF B-52 bombers make the worlds first around the world non-stop flight by turbojet powered aircraft.They take 45hrs and 19mins,average speed is an impressive 534mph.
18th Jan 1973.....The results of the USAF A-X fly off are announced,the winner is the Fairchild YA-10 over Northrop`s contender the Northrop YA-9.
18th Jan 1981.....Bell Helicopters celebrates delivering it`s 25,000th production helicopter.
18th Jan 1982.....The USAF Thunderbirds Demonstration Team crash in pre season training at what is now Creech Airforce Base.4 aircraft and pilots are lost during a four abreast formation loop.
18th Jan 1992.....The US Marine Corps retire the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II from front line service.
18th Jan 2005.....The first Airbus A380 is unveiled F-WWOW was shown to the world at Toulouse.It displayed at the Portrush Airshow in 2009.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1604/24841017060_da93d729d9_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/DR7GVA)F-WWOW Airbus A380 at Portrush e (https://flic.kr/p/DR7GVA) by Paul McAllister / AT Images (https://www.flickr.com/photos/97499763@N06/), on Flickr
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18th Jan 1906.....Zeppelin LZ-2 is destroyed in high winds.
18th Jan 1916.....The first offical flight of the Junkers J1,a brief hop had been achieved in Dec 1915.
18th Jan 1935.....The first flight of the German dive bomber,the Blohm & Voss Ha137.
18th Jan 1938.....The RCAF received the first of it`s order of 1380+ Tiger Moth trainers.
18th Jan 1957.....Three USAF B-52 bombers make the worlds first around the world non-stop flight by turbojet powered aircraft.They take 45hrs and 19mins,average speed is an impressive 534mph.
18th Jan 1973.....The results of the USAF A-X fly off are announced,the winner is the Fairchild YA-10 over Northrop`s contender the Northrop YA-9.
18th Jan 1981.....Bell Helicopters celebrates delivering it`s 25,000th production helicopter.
18th Jan 1982.....The USAF Thunderbirds Demonstration Team crash in pre season training at what is now Creech Airforce Base.4 aircraft and pilots are lost during a four abreast formation loop.
18th Jan 1992.....The US Marine Corps retire the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II from front line service.
18th Jan 2005.....The first Airbus A380 is unveiled F-WWOW was shown to the world at Toulouse.It displayed at the Portrush Airshow in 2009.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1604/24841017060_da93d729d9_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/DR7GVA)F-WWOW Airbus A380 at Portrush e (https://flic.kr/p/DR7GVA) by Paul McAllister / AT Images (https://www.flickr.com/photos/97499763@N06/), on Flickr
WOW! How did we ever manage to swing getting that over!
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18th Jan 1973.....The results of the USAF A-X fly off are announced,the winner is the Fairchild YA-10 over Northrop`s contender the Northrop YA-9.
Thus establishing the tradition of 'the odd-numbered one always loses the fly-off...'
YA-9 vs YA-10
YF-16 vs YF-17
YAH-63 vs YAH-64
YUH-60 vs YUH-61
YF-22 vs YF-23
Wait! You might say. What about the X-32 vs the X-35? Didn't the odd one win there?
Well the actual valid designations for those two should have been YF-25 and YF-26, so the rule stands :)
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Good stuff Smudge. You do some digging on the aviation web.
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19th Jan 1915.....The first German Zeppelin aerial bombing attacks on England during WWI.The target was Humberside,but the aircraft drifted in strong winds,and bombed Great Yarmouth instead.
19th Jan 1923.....The De Bothezat helicopter lifted two people to the height of almost 4 ft. ;) It has something of a " Wacky Races " look about it :)
19th Jan 1923.....The first flight of the Armstrong Whitworth Wolf,a British recon aircraft.
19th Jan 1946.....The first flight of the US built Bell X-1,it was an unpowered flight.
19th Jan 1947.....The first flight of the Italian built airliner,the FIAT G.212.
19th Jan 1949.....The first flight of the Fouga CM.100,the design was based on a CM.10 glider.
19th Jan 1950.....The first flight of the Canadian Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck,a Canadian fighter.
19th Jan 1956.....The first flight of the Supermarine Scimitar,naval strike fighter.76 were built.
19th Jan 1960.....The first flight of the Convair CV-580 Super Convair.
19th Jan 1983.....The death of Ham the Astrochimp,the first chimpanzee launched as part of the US Space Program.
19th Jan 2006.....Jet Airways buys Air Sahara,creating the largest domestic carrier in India.
19th Jan 2010.....Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection.
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20th Jan 1928.....The Boeing F2 B is introduced,it was a US built carrier based fighter.
20th Jan 1932.....Imperial Airways begins mail services to Cape Town using a Handley Page HP.42.
20th Jan 1934.....The first flight of the Boeing P-29 prototype fighter,only 4 were built before the project was cancelled.
20th Jan 1940.....The first flight of the French prototype fighter the Arsenal VG-34,which in turn was a development of the VG-33.
20th Jan 1941.....The Brazilian Air Force is formed after merging the Army and Navy Air Arms.
20th Jan 1959.....The first flight of the Vickers Vanguard.
20th Jan 1966.....The Short Belfast C.1 entered RAF Service with 53 Sqn,XR367 was delivered to RAF Brize Norton.
20th Jan 1971.....The first flight of the Grumman E2-C Prototype,a US carrier borne AEW aircraft developed from the E2-A and E2-B.
20th Jan 1971.....The Luftwaffe took delivery of it`s first McDonnell Douglas RF-4E Phantom II.
20th Jan 1990.....North American Airlines begin flight operations.It closed June 9th 2014.
20th Jan 1997.....Steve Fossett is forced to abandon the around the world non-stop balloon attempt in India,however he sets a new distance record for a balloon flight of 10,363 miles.
20th Jan 2009.....Caribair is suspended from operations by the DCAI for " operational irregularities " .
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21st Jan 1919.....The birth of Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown CBE,DSC, AFC RN,British Navy test pilot who has flown more different types than anyone else,also holds world record for carrier landings.
21st Jan 1921.....The first triple triplane aircraft and the first designed to carry more than 100 people takes off from Lake Maggiore,but it nosedives into the lake.
21st Jan 1931.....The first flight of the Vickers Type 161,an unusual pusher bi-plane fighter designed to fly under enemy aircraft,and attack with a large COW 37mm gun.
21st Jan 1938.....The first flight of the French monoplane long range flying boat protoype,the Potez-Cams 141.Only one was built.
21st Jan 1950.....The first flight of the Soviet four engine military transport,the Tupolev TU-75,only a single example was built.
21st Jan 1951.....The F-84 Thunderjet makes its first kill,when Lt.Col William E Bertram shoots down a Mig-15.
21st Jan 1952.....The experimental delta wing research aircraft the Saab 210 makes it`s first flight.
21st Jan 1963.....The first flight of the US built Fairchild-Hiller FH-1100 light helicopter.
21st Jan 1968.....A USAF Boeing B-52 Stratofortress 58-0188 carrying 4 Hydrogen bombs crashed near Thule Air Force Base Greenland.
21st Jan 1972.....The first flight of the Lockheed S-3B Viking.
21st Jan 1976.....The first supersonic passenger services begin as Concorde is introduced with British Airways and Air France.
21st Jan 1990.....The last SR-71 Blackbird (962) left Kadena AFB Japan.Special Tail art read " DET 1 RIP 1968-1990 "
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21st January 1967: first flight of the Angry Turnip. Apparently only one was built, based nowadays at EGAA.
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21st January 1967: first flight of the Angry Turnip. Apparently only one was built, based nowadays at EGAA.
Wrong year,please don`t make me any older than I already am. ;)
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22nd Jan 1919.....The death of Carrick Stewart Paul DFC,a WWI flying ace ironically drowned at sea on the voyage home to New Zealand. :(
22nd Jan 1926.....A Spanish Dornier Do J Wal takes off from Huelva in Spain bound for Buenos Aires,Argentina for the first trans Atlantic flight between Spain and South America.
22nd Jan 1931.....The first flight of the Bristol Type 118,a British general purpose military aircraft.
22nd Jan 1948.....The first flight of the Short Sealand,a British light twin engined amphibian aircraft.It also saw service with the Indian Navy.
22nd Jan 1951.....The Cievra Autogyro Company is bought over by Saunders-Roe.
22nd Jan 1952.....The de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1 is the first turbo-jet powered airliner to awarded a COA.
22nd Jan 1958.....Austral Lineas Aereas is formed.
22nd Jan 1968.....Apollo 5 is launched on a Saturn 1B rocket.
22nd Jan 1970.....The Boeing B747 Jumbo Jet enters service with Pan Am and TWA.Clipper Victor was used on the Pan Am flight from New York to London.
22nd Jan 1993.....Norwegian Air Shuttle is founded.
22nd Jan 1998.....The first flight of the Boeing B737-600,SAS was to be the launch customer.
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Today`s portion of aviation info bits.........
23rd Jan 1909.....The first flight of the Bleriot XI,a French monoplane and one of the most succesful aircraft built before WWI.
23rd Jan 1925.....The first flight of the Bleriot 118,a monoplane floatplane two seat fighter,just a single example was built.
23rd Jan 1934.....The first flight of the Berliner-Joyce XF3J bi-plane fighter,it was offered to the US Navy,but it lost out to other more advanced types.
23rd Jan 1939.....The Douglas 7B crashes killing two on board,on it`s first flight,despite this the aircraft is developed into the Douglas A-20 Havoc,Douglas Boston etc.
23rd Jan 1948.....The first flight of the de Havilland Austrailia DHA-3 Drover,a development of the Dove,the Drover had a tri-engine layout.
23rd Jan 1951.....The first flight of the wide Delta winged Douglas F4D Skyray.
23rd Jan 1957.....The first flight of the NORD 1500-02 Griffon II,an experimental fighter with ramjet power.
23rd Jan 1998.....The first flight of the Australian built AEA Explorer,a large single engine utility aircraft.
23rd Jan 2003.....The final comms between Earth and Pioneer 10,lunched in 1972 to flypast Jupiter,it is the first man made object to leave the solar system. Will it turn up in a Star Trek movie ? ;D
23rd Jan 2007.....The first flight of the Lockheed Martin CATbird,a much modified B737-330,avionics testbed aircraft.
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24th Jan 1913.....A very brave Oskar Bider,a Swiss national and aviation pioneer,reaches 11,483ft on a flight over the Pyrenees from Pau to Madrid in a Bleriot XI monoplane.
24th Jan 1919.....Lt Temple M.Joyce achieves a rather bizarre aviation feet,when he does 300 consecutive loops in a Morane fighter over Issoudun,France. :o His mother drove him loopy! Ta Da :-[
24th Jan 1920.....French military aviator Joseph Vuillemin,achieves the first flight across the Sahara Desert.
24th Jan 1925.....Total eclipse of the sun is photographed near Toronto from an Avro 504.
24th Jan 1929.....The first flight of the Bleriot 111,a French single engine transport,notable for being the first French aircraft to be fitted with retractable landing gear.
24th Jan 1932.....Henri Robida and Paul Codos land in Paris after a record breaking flight from Hanoi,in 3 days and 4 hrs.
24th Jan 1936.....Junkers test pilot Wilhelm Neuenhofen,is killed testing a new prototype aircraft,the Junkers JU-87 V1,which was developed into the much feared Stuka dive bomber.
24th Jan 1938.....The rather ugly Armstrong Whitworth AW.27 Ensign,a 40 seater airliner made it`s first flight.It served with Imperial Airways and BOAC.
24th Jan 1950.....The first flight of the North American YF-93 US jet fighter protoype derived from the F-86 Sabre,it lost out to the McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo.Curse of the odd numbers again.
24th Jan 1950.....The first flight of the French research aircraft,the NORD 1601.
24th Jan 1961.....The first flight of the US built airliner,the Convair 990 Coranado.
24th Jan 1966.....The Learjet 24 6 to 8 pax bizjet makes its first flight.
24th Jan 1975.....The fist flight of the medium weight multi-purpose helicopter,the French built Aerospatiale SA 365 Dauphine 2,developed from the SA360 Dauphin.
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25th Jan 1926.....The first flight of the Stinson Detroiter,a utility monoplane.
25th Jan 1933.....HJ Penrose and Air Commodore PFM Fellows take a Westland PV.3 on an altitude test flight,to see if Mt.Everest could be overflown.They climb to 10,500m were temp is -60C.
25th Jan 1959.....The first American Airline to operate American jets is American Airlines,using the Boeing B707.
25th Jan 1966.....SR-71 Blackbird 61-7952 breaks up at MACH 3.17,80,000ft after a pitch up accident,both crew eject,but the RSO does not survive.
25th Jan 1975.....The basic light aircraft available in kit form,the Birdman TL-1 makes its first flight.
25th Jan 1983.....The Saab 340 twin turboprop airliner makes it`s first flight.
25th Jan 1989.....The first flight of the Australian built MAC Mamba 2 seat light aircraft.
25th Jan 2004.....NASA`s Opportunity MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover-B) lands on Mars.
25th Jan 2009.....Swedish airline Nordic Airways operators license is suspended.
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26th Jan 1911.....Glenn Curtis in the Curtis Hydro takes off and lands in the sea of San Diego,his aircraft is regarded as the first practical seaplane design.
26th Jan 1939.....The Boeing Model 314 Clipper is granted permission to be used by Pan American Airways for commercial services.
26th Jan 1945.....The Miles M.57 Aerovan,a British short haul transport aircraft,makes its first flight.
26th Jan 1945.....The first flight of the US Naval fighter,the McDonnell FH Phantom.
26th Jan 1946.....Col.William Council sets a new transcontinental record in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star in 4hrs 13mins.
26th Jan 1960.....The CIA orders an intiial five A-12 OXCART Aircraft,a close relative of the SR-71 Blackbird.
26th Jan 1961.....The first flight of the FIAT 7002,a medium sized multirole prototype helicopter.
26th Jan 1978.....The Westland Lynx entered service with 702 Sqn FAA.
26th Jan 1988.....The French Defence Ministry approves development of the Dassault Rafale .
26th Jan 1990.....The first of the Boeing VC-25,based on the Boeing B747 enters service.
26th Jan 2010.....The first flight of the Japanese built Military Transport aircraft,the Kawasaki C2.
26th Jan 2010.....Spanish Airline, Quantum Air ceased operations.
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Following on from yesterday,we have some more info bits.......
27th Jan 1894.....Captain BFS Baden Powell,makes a kite ascent in Pirbright Army Camp,England,in what was regarded as the first man carrying flight outside of China.
27th Jan 1927.....The first flight of the American twin engine biplane torpedo bomber,the Douglas T2D.
27th Jan 1929.....The first flight of the British biplane fighter,the Saunders A-10.Just a single example was built.
27th Jan 1939.....The first flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning,an American twin engine fighter with a distinctive twin boom design.
27th Jan 1955.....Ariana Afghan Airlines is founded using a trio of DC-3`s.
27th Jan 1959.....The first flight of the American airliner the Convair 880,it entered service with Delta Air Lines May 1960.
27th Jan 1963.....The first flight of the IAI Westwind business jet.I always wondered about the very low ground clearance of this aircraft. :-\
27th Jan 1967.....A fire on the Apollo 1 launchpad kills the three astronauts on board. Virgil I Gus Grissom,Ed White and Roger B.Chafee.
27th Jan 1969.....The DC-9-20 enters service with SAS.
27th Jan 1982.....Cessna delivers it`s 1000th Business Jet.
27th Jan 1989.....Death of Thomas Sopwith,British aviation pioneer-he passes away at the age of 101.
27th Jan 2002.....The Boeing B737 becomes the first jet airliner to amass more than 100 Million flying hours.
27th Jan 2012.....Spanish airline Spanair ceases operations,it was founded in 1986.
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27th Jan 1963.....The first flight of the IAI Westwind business jet.I always wondered about the very low ground clearance of this aircraft. :-\
From Aviation Week in March 1963, when it was still the Aero Jet Commander:
Mid-wing design was chosen because it affords a minimum of centre-of-gravity travel and eliminated the necessity of extensive fillets to provide aerodynamic fairing.
It still needed the sharply upswept tail section of the prop Commanders and 20 years later the IAI Astra / G100 still had that feature despite changing to a low-mounted wing.
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Ready for some more aviation potted history?
28th Jan 1917.....The first flight of the Junkers J.I,was a German sesquiplane of WW I,it was used in the observation role.It is noteworthy as being the first all metal aircraft to enter mass production.
28th Jan 1917.....Major Frank W.Goodden,the Royal Aircraft Factory test pilot is killed in the second prototype SE5.The wings was found to have failed due to downward torsion.
28th Jan 1919.....American fighter pilot Francis Gabreski is born.(d 2002) He was the top US fighter ace in Europe WWII,and a jet fighter ace in Korea-he wass one of only 7 US pilots to become aces in two wars.
28th Jan 1935.....The first flight of the rather lovely French airliner the Potez 62,twin engined monoplane airliner.
28th Jan 1935.....The Grumman F2F enters military service with the US Navy.
28th Jan 1942.....The USAAF activates the Eighth Air Force to serve in the UK as a strategic air force in Europe.
28th Jan 1946.....The Short Shetland 1 DX166 burns out at it`s moorings due to a fire in the galley,before flight testing can be completed.
28th Jan 1977.....Birth of an inquisitive boy,NATO codename SMUDGE,often seen at EGAD Airfield. :)
28th Jan 1981.....Pan Am begins a weekly New York to Beijing service.
28th Jan 1986.....The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 secs after launch at 48,000ft.The crew of 7 are killed. "O " ring failure on the solid booster joints due to the extreme cold are blamed.
28th Jan 1993.....The death of the last US WWI aces James William Pearson.
28th Jan 1998.....Andy Nelson and Bertrand Piccard,lift off in the Breitling Orbiter II on an attempt at an around the world balloon flight. Make it so!
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A very happy birthday Smudge.
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And now for something completely different :o ..........Ok,more aviation fun facts. ;)
29th Jan 1908.....The Imperial all-Russia Aero Club is founded,it raises funds through public subscription by Imperial decree.
29th Jan 1916.....The 2nd and last Zeppelin bombing raid on Paris,54 are injured.
29th Jan 1920.....Orville Wright is appointed to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) by President Woodrow Wilson.
29th Jan 1924.....Raoul Pateras Pescara flies an experimental helicopter in Paris for over 10mins.
29th Jan 1932.....The first flight of the Bristol Type 120,an evolution of the 118 with a more powerful engine.
29th Jan 1932.....The first flight of the de Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth.
29th Jan 1940.....The first flight of the Soviet twin engine bomber,the Bolkovitinov S.
29th Jan 1941.....The first flight of another Soviet twin engined bomber, the Tupolev TU-2.
29th Jan 1945.....Germany scuttles it`s incomplete aircraft carrier Seydiltz,to prevent it falling into the hands of the Soviets.
29th Jan 1959.....The first jet passenger flights across the USA is started by American Airlines,using Boeing B707`s.
29th Jan 1971.....The Grumman EA-6 Prowler enters service.
29th Jan 2005.....Commercial flights between mainland China and Taiwan resume after stopping in 1949.
29th Jan 2010.....The first flight of the Russian twin engine stealth fighter prototype,the Sukhoi SU-57 PAK FA.
29th Jan 2016.....First flight of the new generation of Boeing B737,the Boeing B737-MAX.
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30th Jan 1915.....The first flight of the German heavy bomber,the Gotha G.1
30th Jan 1930.....The first flight of the Soviet light bomber/recon aircraft,the Tupolev ANT-10.Only a single example was built.
30th Jan 1930.....The first flight of the US built Monoplane fighter,the Boeing XP-15.
30th Jan 1931.....The first flight of the Soviet built Tupolev ANT-8,an experimental flying boat.
30th Jan 1933.....The first flight of the US built Curtiss T-32 Condor II,a biplane transport.
30th Jan 1942.....Canadian Pacific Airlines is formed.
30th Jan 1942.....The H2S ground scanning radar system is used operationally for the first time by the RAF.The Germans manage to capture an H2S almost intact,on it`s second outing.
30th Jan 1948.....US Aviation pioneer Orville Wright dies at the age of 76.
30th Jan 1958.....German aircraft designer Ernst Heinkel dies.
30th Jan 1981.....British Airways aircraft makes a record 96 automatic landings in one day at LHR.
30th Jan 1983.....Sun Country Airlines begins operations.
30th Jan 1988.....Boeing`s Long range B747 SP Friendship One,sets around the world record of 36hrs 54mins,15 secs.
30th Jan 1998.....British Airways launch`s the low airfare airline GO.
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Last Batch for this month.........
31st Jan 1923.....At Cuatro Vientos airfield in Spain,the Cierva C.4 Autogyro makes it`s first flight.
31st Jan 1928.....The first official US complaint about aircraft noise was made by The Cackle Corner Poultry Farm in Garretsville Ohio,claiming aircraft noise was having a negative effect on egg yields.
31st Jan 1951.....Capt Charles Blair flies a P-51 Mustang in a jetstream test,non-stop from New York to London in 7 hrs,48 mins to cover the 3,478 mile route.
31st Jan 1958.....The first flight of the US built jet trainer the North American T-2 Buckeye.
31st Jan 1970.....The USAF retires the Convair B-58 Hustler Supersonic Strategic Bomber.
31st Jan 1970.....Mikhail Mil,the Soviet helicopter designer dies at the age of 61.
31st Jan 1977.....The first flight of the US Built Bizjet the Cessna Citation II.
31st Jan 1986.....Boeing buys de Havilland Canada.It was sold to Bombardier in 1992.
31st Jan 1992.....TWA files for bankruptcy.
31st Jan 2005.....Air Exel (part of the KLM Group) ceases operations.
31st Jan 2010.....Northwest Airlines merged with Delta Airlines.