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1981 – First flight of the British Aerospace 146; 1979 – Two Convair F-106 Delta Darts of the 186th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 120th Fighter-Interceptor Group, Montana Air National Guard, out of Great Falls Airport, perform a pair of a flyovers in Dillon, Montana in conjunction with the town's Labor Day parade. One Delta Dart, F-106A-70 ...
1924 – First flight of the Naval Aircraft Factory TS as the all-metal Curtiss F4C-1. 1923 – Maiden Voyage of the first USA airship USS Shenandoah. 1922 – Lt Jimmy Doolittle flies across the United States in under a day in a de Havilland DH.4. He takes 21 hours 19 min to fly from Pablo Beach, Florida to Rockwell Field, California.
Propeller. Patented a design for a steam-powered “flying machine” (1889, and refined in 1891); [131] successful track-tethered test of a steam-engine powered biplane (Jul 1894); [132] designed and constructed a biplane that never flew (1910) [133] John Alexander Douglas McCurdy. 2 Aug 1886. 25 Jun 1961.
NASA has tried to make aircraft quieter, more fuel efficient, and less polluting. [1] Aerospace Week is an event which celebrates aerospace in the United States. [1] It was established in 2010, and has been celebrated by various government and private organizations, including NASA [1] and the U.S. Department of Commerce. [2]
1966 - A Thor-Burner launches a DMSP satellite; 1973 - A Proton-K/D launches Luna 21.; 1986 - A Soyuz-U rocket launches a Zenit-8 spy satellite.; 1990 - An EVA is performed by the crew of Mir to install star tracking equipment.
The National Aviation Day (August 19) is a United States national observation that celebrates the development of aviation.. The National Aviation Day was established in 1939 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who issued a presidential proclamation which designated the anniversary of Orville Wright's birthday to be National Aviation Day (Mr. Wright, born in 1871, was still alive when the ...
On this date in history, Sept. 15, 1950, U.S, Marines landed at Inchon on Korea's west coast, just months after the Korean War began; it was a brilliant coordination of forces by air, land and sea.
Cosmonautics Day (Russian: День Космона́втики, romanized: Den' Kosmonávtiki) is an anniversary celebrated in Russia and some other post-Soviet states on 12 April. [1][2] In 2011, at the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly, 12 April was declared as the International Day of Human Space Flight in dedication of the ...