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1939 – Sole prototype Douglas 7B twin-engine attack bomber, designed and built as a company project, suffers loss of vertical fin and rudder during demonstration flight over Mines Field (now Los Angeles International Airport, California), flat spins into parking lot of North American Aviation, burns. Another source states that the test pilot ...
1889 – Birth of Giuseppe ‘Jean’ Cei, Italian aviation pioneer. 1886 – Birth of Dean Ivan Lamb, American pilot, hired as a mercenary during the Mexican Revolution who made that was quite possibly the first dogfight in history (pilots firing pistols at each other) against Phil Rader. He also helped to establish the Honduran Air Force.
Based at Soluch Field in Soluch (today Suluq and Benina International Airport, Libya) as part of the 514th Bomb Squadron, 376th Bomb Group, it failed to return from a bombing raid on Naples, Italy. At the time, the plane was assumed to have crashed into the Mediterranean Sea and its nine crew members were classified as Missing in Action.
Despite decades of improvements in air traffic control systems and jet safety, midair collisions have remained a recurring, although extremely rare, part of aviation history.
1900 – Birth of Richard Halliburton, American traveler, adventurer, and author, Best known today for having swum the length of the Panama Canal and paying the lowest toll in its history (36 cents), and having flown round the world (Flying Carpet Expedition) in a Stearman C-3 B. 1898 – Birth of Albert Edward Woodbridge, British WWI flying ace.
1889 – Birth of Giuseppe ‘Jean’ Cei, Italian aviation pioneer. 1886 – Birth of Dean Ivan Lamb, American pilot, hired as a mercenary during the Mexican Revolution who made that was quite possibly the first dogfight in history (pilots firing pistols at each other) against Phil Rader. He also helped to establish the Honduran Air Force.
“The history (of aircraft) goes back well over 100 years in terms of aviation,” said Ben Sauceda, president and CEO of the Aviation Museum. “About 17%, roughly, of our workforce are involved ...
It is a significant step forward in the development of Argentine aviation. 1918 – President Woodrow Wilson creates a Bureau of Aircraft Production responsible for aeronautical equipment. 1908 – First flight of the AEA June Bug; 1878 – Glenn Hammond Curtiss was born in Hammondsport, New York.