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The record was set on 28 July 1976 by Eldon W. Joersz and George T. Morgan Jr. near Beale Air Force Base, California, USA. It was able to take off and land unassisted on conventional runways. [ 47 ] SR-71 pilot Brian Shul claimed in The Untouchables that he flew in excess of Mach 3.5 on 15 April 1986, over Libya , in order to avoid a missile .
1918 - The Royal Air Force, the world's first independent air force is formed. 1918 - HMS Argus (I49) became "the world's first carrier capable of launching and landing naval aircraft". [6] 1940 - The Battle of Britain, the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, was fought.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 forced Western air forces to undergo a shift from the massive numbers felt to be necessary during the Cold War to smaller numbers of multi-role aircraft. The closure of several military bases overseas and the U.S. Base Realignment and Closure program have served to highlight the effectiveness of aircraft ...
This is a timeline of aviation history, and a list of more detailed aviation timelines. The texts in the diagram are clickable links to articles. The texts in the diagram are clickable links to articles.
Hughes Aircraft Co H-4 Hercules: 1948 1,540 km/h (957 mph) USA Charles Yeager Bell X-1 March 26, 1948 19,507 m (64,000 ft) USA Charles Yeager Bell X-1 May 26, 1948 2,740 kgf thrust (6,041 lbf thrust) USSR Klimov Klimov VK-1: 1949 37,165 km (23,093 miles) USA James Gallagher Boeing B-50A March 2, 1949 21,916 m (71,902 ft) USA Frank Everest Bell ...
This is a list of aircraft by date and usage. The date shown is the introduction of the first model of a line but not the current model. For instance, while "the most popular" aircraft, such as Boeing 737 and 747 were introduced in 1960x, their recent models were revealed in the 21st century. [1]
The Wright 1908 Model A Military Flyer arrives at Fort Myer, Virginia aboard a wagon Unloading of a Blériot XI-2 artillery spotting monoplane of the Romanian Army during the Second Balkan War in 1913 Austro-Hungarian soldiers transport a military balloon during World War I in 1914. The first military uses of aviation involved lighter-than-air ...
International Warbirds: An Illustrated Guide to World Military Aircraft, 1914-2000. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-57607-364-5. Gordon, Yefim; Komissarov, Dmitry; Komissarov, Sergey (2005). OKB Yakovlev: A History of the Design Bureau and its Aircraft. Hinckley, UK: Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-203-9.