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1925 - Birth of Paul Beattie MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer, founder of AeroVironment and designer of the human-powered aircraft Gossamer Condor that won the Kremer prize

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

1928 - Death of William Lewers Cornelius, American aviator, one of the U.S. Army Air Corps' "Three Musketeers", 1st US display team, killed in a middair collision.

http://aerobaticteams.net/three-musketeers.html

1929 - 1st flight of The PZL P.1, Polish prototype fighter, 1st of the Polish PZL gull wing fighter series.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/poland/pzl_p-1.php

1929 - 1st flight of the Kamow / Skrschinski KASKR-1, Soviet autogyro prototype, 1st autogyro made in the Soviet Union, based on the Cierva C.8 and using an Avro 504 (U-1) fuselage.

http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/kamov_kaskr-1.php

1932 - Thomas Settle and Winfield Bushnell set a new balloon distance record of 1,550 km (963 miles) between Basle, Switzerland and Vilna, Poland, winning the International Gordon Bennett Race. It earned Settle his 1st national Harmon Trophy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmon_Trophy#List_of_award_winners - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bennett_Cup_in_ballooning#Official_winners

1932 - Lewis Alonzo Yancey sets an autogiro altitude record of 21,500 ft (6,553 m) in a Pitcairn PCA-2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_PCA-2

1934 - 1st flight of the Loire 301 (The Loire 300 modified), French 3-seat 3 engined monoplane prototype to test a large windowless armoured turret fitted in the nose

http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9574

1934 - Birth of John Sumter Bull, U.S. Navy test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Bull

1938 - A Tupolev ANT-37 (DB-2) completes a world's record for distance flown by a woman crew (Valentina Grizodubova, Polina Osipenko, and Marina Raskova) on a distance record of 5908 km (3671 miles) before ending in an emergency landing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_ANT-37

1939 – Italian Nicola di Mauro sets a world seaplane altitude record of 13,542 meters (44,429 feet) in a Caproni Ca.161Idro.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.161

1940 – Fiat BR.20 bombers of 13° and 43° Stormo of the Corpo Aereo Italiano (Italian Air Corps) at their airfield in Melsbroek, Belgium after an eventful journey (which saw several planes force land or even crash due to malfunctions and poor weather) to participate in the Battle of Britain.

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

1942 - 1st and only RCAF air combat in the North American theatre of war. S/L KA Boomer, CO of No. 111 Squadron, with his Kittyhawk destroyed a Japanese Nakajima A6M2-N (Ruff) fighter over Kiska, Alaska.

http://www.canadianwings.com/Squadrons/squadronDetail.php?No.-111-Squadron-3

1942 - 4 de Havilland Mosquito aircraft of No. 105 Squadron RAF attack the Gestapo headquarters in Oslo, Norway.

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

1942 - Birth of Henri-Jacques William Pescarolo, french racing driver who setted also some breaking flying records in ultralight and monoplane aircrafts.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Pescarolo#Ann.C3.A9es_1980_et_1990

1944 - Operation Market Garden Ends, It was an Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in WWII, largest airborne operation up to that time

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

1945 - 1st flight of The de Havilland DH.104 Dove, British monoplane short-haul airliner.

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

1953 - A New world speed record is set up by Lieutenant Commander Michael J. Lithgow, flying a Vickers Supermarine Swift and averaging 737mph in four runs over a 3 kilometre course in Tripoli.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/supermarine_swift.php

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/british-military-aviation/1953.aspx

1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.

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

1959 - A US Navy Martin P5M-2 Marlin patrolling out of NAS Whidbey Island, Washington on Puget Sound, is forced to ditch in the Pacific Ocean, about 100 miles west of the Washington-Oregon border. The Mark 90 nuclear bomb (not fitted with an active warhead) is lost and has never been recovered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_90_nuclear_bomb

1960 - Death of Ruth Rowland Nichols, American aviation pioneer, who was the only woman to hold simultaneous world records for speed, altitude, and distance for a female pilot.

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

1960 - During operation Top Flight, A U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F4H-1 Phantom II sets a world speed record over a 100-km (62.1-mi) closed-circuit course, averaging 1,390.21 mph (2,237.26 km/hr).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-4_Phantom_II#World_records

1962 - 1st flight of the Siren C-30S 'Edelweiss' french single seat Standard Class sailplane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren_Edelweiss - http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=7069

1971 - Death of Robert Henry Magnus Spencer Saundby, WWI fighter pilot and WWII RAF high ranking officer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Saundby - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/saundby.php

1973 - 1st flight of the MBB Bo 106, german light, twin-engine, multi-purpose utility prototype helicopter, evolution of the Bo 105.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBB_Bo_105

1973 - Skylab 3 is back on earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab_3

1974 - 1st flight of The Northrop F-5F Tiger II, light supersonic fighter aircraft, two-seat combat-capable trainer version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_F-5#F-5E_and_F-5F_Tiger_II

1975 – A flight of 4 Lockheed F-104G Starfighters of the Aeronautica Militare Italiana (Italian Air Force) crashed in formation into a field near the village of Ralingen near the border with Luxembourg, ~12 miles S of Bitburg, West Germany, shortly after take-off from Bitburg Air Base, killing all 4 pilots. a German defense ministry spokesman said.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft_(1975%E2%80%931979)

1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSA_Flight_182

1982 - 1st flight of The Ilyushin Il-102, Soviet experimental jet-powered ground-attack aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-102

1989 - 1st flight of the last IAI Lavi prototype, israelian Fighter jet, in a two-seat technology demonstrator.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/israel/iai_lavi.php

1991 - 1st flight of the Westland 'Battlefield' Lynx, proposed export army Lynx; approximately equivalent to Lynx AH. Mk 9, British multi-purpose military helicopter.

http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/lynx.php

1991 - 1st flight of The British Aerospace Jetstream 41, British twin turboprop-powered feederliner and regional airliner, "stretched" version of the popular Jetstream 31.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAe_Jetstream_41

1992 - Launch of The Mars Observer spacecraft, also known as the Mars Geoscience/Climatology Orbiter, NASA robotic space probe to study the Martian surface, atmosphere, climate and magnetic field.

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

1997 - Death of Masaaki Shimakawa, Japanese Navy WWII fighter ace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaaki_Shimakawa - http://www.cieldegloire.com/010_shimakawa_m.php

1997 - 1st flight of The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut (NATO reporting name Firkin), also designated S-32 and S-37, Russian experimental supersonic jet fighter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-47

1998 - PauknAir Flight 4101 British Aerospace BAe 146 crashed near Boumahfouda, Morocco, on approach in bad weather to Melilla Airport, due to a combination of several factors: - Non-application of the arrival procedure, including descending below the minimum safe altitude; - Inadequate crew coordination; - Non-application of company procedures regarding GPWS alarm. All 38 were killed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PauknAir_Flight_4101

2008 – China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7, 3rd human spaceflight mission of the Chinese space program which included the 1st Chinese extra-vehicular activity (EVA)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_7

2010 - Soyuz TMA-18 is back on earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_TMA-18

2010 - Launch of the 1st 'pathfinder' Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite. American planned constellation of satellites and supporting ground infrastructure that will improve the ability of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to detect and track space objects in orbit around the Earth.

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

2010 - Delta Connection Flight 4951, a CRJ900, on a passenger flight from Atlanta, Georgia to White Plains, New York made a successful emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. The plane's right landing gear would not deploy and the right wing dragged along the runway during the landing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_CRJ700_series#Accidents_and_incidents

2011 - Buddha Air Flight 103 Beechcraft 1900D crashed at Kotdanda, Lalitpur, Nepal, while attempting to land in bad weather on a retrurn from a sightseeing service tour, killing all 19.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha_Air_Flight_103

2012 – The People's Republic of China commissions its 1st aircraft carrier, Liaoning, at Dalian Port, China

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