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1913 - Birth of Max Holste, French aeronautical engineer and founder of an aircraft manufacturer company of the same name and one of the lead engineers of the Embraer Bandeirante project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Holste

1916 - 1st flight of the Tellier T3, French biplane flying boat with unequal span wings.

http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/tellier.htm

1916 - Birth of Roald Dahl, British novelist, short story writer, WWII fighter pilot and screenwriter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl - http://cieldegloire.com/002_raf_dahl_r.php

1917 - 1st flight of The Sopwith 3F.2 Hippo, prototype British two-seat fighter aircraft, single-engined biplane with considerable negative stagger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Hippo

1923 - 1st flight of The Parnall Pixie, low powered British single-seat monoplane light aircraft designed to compete in the Lympne, UK trials for motor-gliders in 1923. It had two sets of wings, one for cross-country flights and the other for speed; it later appeared as a biplane which could be converted into a monoplane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parnall_Pixie

1927 - On an attempt for an endurance record from France to Siberia, the Potez-28M (french twin seat high wing single engine) is destroyed on take off with no fatalities.

http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9821

1929 - 1st flight of The Fokker F.32, luxury airliner, 1st four-engined aircraft designed and built in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_F.32

1931 - Death of Arthur Korff, German WWI flying ace

http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/korff.php

1931 - The United Kingdom wins the Schneider Trophy outright. Lt. John Boothman completes the course at Calshot Spit in a Supermarine S.6B at 547.297 km/h (340.1 mph).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Trophy

1935 - 1st flight of the Hughes H-1, American racing aircraft, Howard Hughes at the controls setted the landplane airspeed record of 352 mph (566 km/h) over his test course near Santa Anna, California. He apparently ran the aircraft out of fuel and managed to crash-land without serious damage, his only comment was: "We can fix her, she'll go faster".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-1_Racer

1938 - 1st flight of the SNCAO CAO-30, French single-engined monoplane flying boat two-seat trainer prototype.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCAO_30 - http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=1513

1940 - 1st air-to-air victories of The Mitsubishi A6M Zero : 13 A6M2s led by Lieutenant Saburo Shindo attacked 27 Soviet-built Polikarpov I-15s and I-16s of the Chinese Nationalist Air Force, shooting down all the fighters without loss to themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_A6M_Zero#Operational_history

1942 - Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak (Lydia Litviak or Lilya Litviak) becomes the 1st female fighter to shoot down an ennemy airplane, a Junker Ju 88, with her Lavockin La-5.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Litvyak#World_War_II - http://cieldegloire.com/015_litvyak_l_v.php

1942 - Death of Kazushi 'Popo' Uto, Japanese Navy WWII fighter ace, killed in action.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BE%BD%E8%97%A4%E4%B8%80%E5%BF%97

1944 - Death of Frank Furlong, British test pilot, killed in the crash of the Supermarine Spiteful prototype while in unplanned mock combat with a Spitfire at low altitude.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spiteful#Design_and_development

1947 - Death of Wilfrid Barratt Green, British WWI flying ace

http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/green4.php - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Green_(aviator)

1951 - Death of Geoffrey Forrest Hughes, Australian WWI flying ace.

http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/australi/hughes3.php

1956 - Death of Archibald Montgomery Low, British consulting engineer, research physicist, inventor and author, called the "father of radio guidance systems" due to his pioneering work on guided rockets, planes and torpedoes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Low

1959 - 1st spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon is Soviet Luna 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_2

1960 - The T-7, 1st Chinese sounding Rocket, is launched.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-7_(rocket)

1961 - Launch of Mercury-Atlas 4, american unmanned spaceflight, orbital test of the Mercury Tracking Network to test the environmental controls and 1st successful orbital flight test of the Mercury program. It completed one orbit prior to returning to Earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_4

1965 - 1st hot air balloon record is homologated by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. B. Bogan of the United States reaches an altitude of 2,978 metres (9,780 feet).

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/world-aviation/1965.aspx

1966 - 1st flight of the McDonnell Model 500, commercial counterpart of the OH-6A, American light utility civilian and military helicopter.

http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/mcdonnel-500.php

1967 - Death of Sir Robert Allingham George, Australian WWI bomber pilot, senior officer in the Royal Air Force and Governor of South Australia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_George_(RAF_officer)

1967 - Death of Russell Lee Rogers, USAF test pilot and astronaut assigned to the X-20 Dyna-Soar program, killed when the engine of his F-105 fighter plane failed near Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan. He ejected from his aircraft, but his parachute failed to deploy properly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_L._Rogers

1969 - 1st flight the Highly-modified Grumman F8F Bearcat 'Rare Bear', Racing aircraft rebuilt from wrecks which raced at reno for years under the name of "Phoenix I".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Bear - http://www.lewisairlegends.com/aircraft/rare-bear

1971 - Lin Yurong, (better known as Lin Biao) Chinese Communist military leader, is killed in the crash of a Hawker Siddeley Trident 1E while trying to escape to soviet union after what appeared to be a failed coup to oust Mao-Zedong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Biao#Plane_crash

1974 - USAF SR-71 Blackbird, flown by Captain Harold B. “Buck” Adams (pilot) and Major William C. Machorek (reconnaissance systems officer), flies 5,447 miles (8,771 km) from London to Los Angeles in a world record 3 hours 47 minutes 39 seconds at an average speed of 1,435.59 mph (2,311.74 km/h).

http://www.historynet.com/sr-71-blackbird-sets-london-to-l-a-speed-record.htm

1978 - 1st flight of The Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma, French four-bladed, twin-engine, medium-size utility helicopter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_AS332_Super_Puma

1982 - Spantax Flight 995 Douglas DC-10-30 crashed on take off at Malaga Airport, killing 50.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spantax_Flight_995

1984 - Death of Leonida Schiona, Italian aviator, WWI fighter pilot, Intsructor, airliner pilot who also served in WWII and who founded the Society for the Civil Air Navigation Transadriatica.

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonida_Schiona

1984 - 1st flight of The Lockheed S-3B Viking, Upgraded version of the US Navy 4-seat twin-engine jet aircraft to identify and track enemy submarines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_S-3_Viking#Variants

1985 - Maj. Wilbert D. "Doug" Pearson, flying the "Celestial Eagle" F-15A 76-0084 launched an ASM-135 ASAT about 200 miles (322 km) west of Vandenberg Air Force Base and destroyed the Solwind P78-1 satellite flying at an altitude of 345 miles (555 km). Prior to the launch the F-15 flying at Mach 1.22 executed a 3.8g zoom climb at an angle of 65 degrees. The ASM-134 ASAT was automatically launched at 38,100 ft while the F-15 was flying at Mach .934

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT#Test_launches

1987 - Norwegian Air Force Lockheed P-3B Orion monitoring a group of Soviet warships is intercepted by a SU-27. The Orion crew closed up on the Su-27 to oust it out of the patrol area, let the Su-27 under its belly and cut the speed. The fighter pilot did the same. The Orion crew lost track of it since they had underestimated Sukhoi's manoeuvrability. As a result of dangerous manoeuvring, the aircrafts collided but rerurned to base safely.

http://www.aviastar.org/russian-aircraft/flanker/flanker_2.html

1994 - 1st flight of The Airbus A300-600ST (Super Transporter) or Beluga, version of the french standard A300-600 wide-body airliner modified to carry aircraft parts and over-sized or awkward cargo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Beluga - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=6538

1997 - A Luftwaffe Tupolev TU-154M collided in mid-air with a USAF Lockheed C-141B Starlifter 120 km (75 mls) W off Namibia (Atlantic Ocean) killing all 33 on both planes.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19970913-0 - http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19970913-1

2007 - 1st flight of The Tecnam P2006T, Italian high-winged, 4 seat twin-engined all-metal light aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecnam_P2006T

2010 - Conviasa Flight 2350 ATR 42-320 crashed 6 miles west of Manuel Carlos Piar Guayana Airport, Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, on a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Del Caribe "Santiago Mariño" International Airport, Porlamar, Isla Margarita.Of 51 passengers and crew on board, 34 survived the accident while 17 died.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviasa_Flight_2350