MAY28
1887 - Birth of Armand Pinsard, French WWI fighter ace who served during WWII.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Pinsard - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/pinsard.php
1889 - Birth of Ernest Arthur Deighton, British WWI fighter ace who also served in WWII.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Deighton - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/deighton.php
1892 - Birth of Tone Hippolyte Bayetto, British WWI fighter pilot
http://www.66squadron.co.uk/biogs/bayetto.htm
1893 - Birth of Yves Felix Barbaza, French WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_F._Barbaza - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/barbaza.php
1893 - Birth of Donald Roderick MacLaren, Canadian WWI fighter ace, who helped to found the Royal Canadian Air Force, and later formed Pacific Airways
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_MacLaren - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/maclaren.php
1895 - Birth of Edwin Tufnell Hayne, South african WWI fighter ace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hayne - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/safrica/hayne.php
1895 - Birth of Guy Borthwick Moore, Canadian WWI flying ace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Borthwick_Moore - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/moore2.php
1896 - Birth of Edwin Arnold Clear, British WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_A._Clear - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/clear.php
1897 - Birth of Umberto Calvello, Italian WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Calvello - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/italy/calvello.php
1910 - Birth of Robert 'RT' Jones, American engineer, credited by NASA as inventor of the swept-back and oblique wing concepts.
http://www.astronautix.com/astros/jonobert.htm
1913 - 1st flight of the Avro 503 Type H, British military seaplane, evolution of the Avro 500.
http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft25607.htm - http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/avro-503.php
1914 - Glenn Curtiss successfully flies the refurbished Langley Aerodrome for a distance of approximately 150 ft. at Keuka Lake, Hammindsport, New York.
http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/to%20reality/Samuel%20Langley.htm
1914 - Birth of Wilfrid George Gerald Duncan Smith, British RAF WWII Flying ace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._G._G._Duncan_Smith - http://cieldegloire.com/002_raf_duncan_smith_w_g_g.php
1916 - 1st flight of The Sopwith Triplane, British single seat fighter aircraft with Harry Hawker (co-founder of Hawker Aircraft) as test pilot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Triplane
1916 - Death of Lydia Vissarionovna Zvereva, 1st russian woman to gain a pilot's licence.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Vissarionovna_Zvereva
1917 - Death of Nikolay Kirillovich Kokorin , Russian WWI flying ace, killed in action in his Nieuport 21.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Kokorin - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/russia/kokorin.php
1918 - Death of Rex George Bennett, British WWI flying ace, killed in action in his Bristol F.2b .
http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/bennett2.php
1918 - Death of Reginald Milburn Makepeace, British WWI fighter ace, killed in a flying accident at Turnberry Aerodrome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Makepeace - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/makepeace.php
1920 - 1st Lewis & Vought VE-7 Bluebird (Vought Experimental No.7, US early Two-seat trainer biplane of the United States) is delivered to the U.S. Navy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Aviation/Historical_anniversaries/May_in_aviation/May_28
1921 - Death of Geo Mestdagh, Belgian aviation pioneer.
http://www.historyorb.com/deaths/may/28
1921 - Death of Archie Miller, US Army officer, early officer of the US Army air service, perhaps one of the original advocates of a united Air Service, immediately after the WWI Armistice, killed in the crash of a Curtiss Eagle passenger airplane in a terrific wind and electrical storm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Miller_(Medal_of_Honor) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_Eagle#Operational_history
1930 - 1st flight of The Blackburn B-1 Segrave, British twin-engine four-seat touring aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Segrave
1931 - A Bellanca CH-300 fitted with a Packard DR-980 (American nine-cylinder air-cooled engine), piloted by Walter Edwin Lees and Frederick Brossy, set a record for staying aloft for 84 hours and 32 minutes without being refueled
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_DR-980
1933 - Death of Margarete (Marga) Wolff gen. von Etzdorf, german raid aviatrix.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marga_von_Etzdorf
1938 - The sole Bristol Type 146, British single-seat eight-gun fighter monoplane prototype and last single-engined fighter built by Bristol, struck a "set-piece" display while taxying and is damaged beyond economic repair.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_146#Testing
1940 - A 806 Naval Air Squadron pilot Mid A. G. Day scores What was probably the sole confirmed victory of the Blackburn B-25 Roc, Shooting down a Ju-88 near Ostende.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Roc#Operational_history
1944 - Birth of Paul Desmond Scully-Power AM, American oceanographer. He flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-41-G as a Payload Specialist. He was the 1st Australian-born person to journey into space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Scully-Power
1944 - K-123 and K-130, K-class blimps of the United States Navy (USN) Airship Patrol Squadron 14 left South Weymouth, MA for the 1st transatlantic crossing by non-rigid airships.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_class_blimp
1945 - Death of Sakuji Hayashi, Japanese WWII flying ace, killed in action.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_aces_from_Japan#H
1947 - 1st flight of the Sukhoi Su-11, Soviet early jet fighter prototype, evolution of the SU-9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-9_(1946)#Su-11
1947 - BSAA trials non-stop flights from London to Bermuda using aerial refueling over the Azores
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Aviation/Historical_anniversaries/May_in_aviation/May_28
1948 - HMS Venerable (R63) , Colossus-class aircraft carrier,is commissioned as HNLMS Karel Doorman (R81), Royal Netherlands Navy light attack carrier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_Karel_Doorman_(R81)
1954 - Arthur W. Murray piloted the Bell X-1A to a new record of 90,440 feet (27,570 m).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-1#X-1A
1959 - 25 ex-RCAF Beech Expeditors flew across the Atlantic under the Military Assistance Program, to Portugal and France.
1959 - Able (American-born rhesus monkey) and Baker(South American squirrel monkey) are launched Aboard Jupiter AM-18 for a 16 minutes biological flight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-19_Jupiter
1963 - 1st flight of the 2nd prototype Aérospatiale SA 321 Super Frelon (SA3210-02), naval version of the French three-engined heavy transport helicopter.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Frelon#Deux_prototypes
1966 - Death of John Edwardes Pugh, Canadian WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pugh_(aviator) - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/pugh.php
1969 - 1st flight of the Saunders ST-27, Canadian twin engine regional airliner, conversion of the earlier de Havilland Heron, featuring two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 turboprops and a stretched fuselage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saunders_ST-27
1970 - 1st flight of The Meridionali/Agusta EMA 124, Italian light utility helicopter prototype
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridionali/Agusta_EMA_124
1971 - Launch of Mars 3, Soviet unmanned lander, 1st spacecraft to touch down on Mars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_3
1971 - 1st flight of The Dassault Mercure, French twin-engined jet-powered airliner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Mercure
1971 - WWII hero and actor Audie Murphy died in his Aero Commander 680 while flying in a thunderstorm over Roanoke, VA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Commander_500_family#Notable_accidents
1974 - Death of Matthew Brown 'Bunty' Frew, Scottish WWI flying ace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Frew - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/scotland/frew.php
1981 - 1st flight of The Yakovlev Yak-55, Russian single seat aerobatic aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-55
1987 – 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a rented Cessna 172 in the Red Square in Moscow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust
1989 - 1st flight of The AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo, commonly known as the Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF), Taiwanese air superiority jet fighter with multirole capability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDC_F-CK-1_Ching-kuo
1995 - Serb forces shoot down a Mil Mi-8 carrying the Bosnian foreign minister and a USAF F-16 Fighting Falcon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irfan_Ljubijanki%C4%87
1997 - Death of Amy Lynn Svoboda, American military aviatrix, Killed in the crash of her A-10 Thunderbolt, 1st woman pilot fatality in the USAF.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19084337 -
1997 - Linda Finch, American businesswoman, aviatrix and an aviation historian, lands back at the Oakland Airport, after having retraced the flight path of Amelia Earhart. Finch closely followed the same route that Earhart flew, stopping at 36 way-points in 18 countries, finishing the trip in two and a half months (a total of 73 days).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Finch
1999 - Caroline Aigle becomes the 1st woman to receive the French Air Force's coveted fighter pilot wings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Aigle
2002 - NASA reports that 2001 Odyssey's GRS ( robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars) had detected large amounts of hydrogen, a sign that there must be ice lying within a meter of the planet's surface.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Mars_Odyssey
2003 - Death of Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Grigoryevich_Makarov
2013 - Launch of Soyuz TMA-09M, Russian Soyuz mission to the ISS.