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August 30 – Two Cuban patrol boats fire on a U.S. Navy Grumman S2F Tracker with a crew of three United States Naval Reserve personnel on a training flight 15 nautical miles (28 kilometres) off Cárdenas, Cuba. August 31 – The U.S. Navy conducts its last blimp flight at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, marking the end of its airship program. [25 ...
Varig Flight 810 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro to Los Angeles with stopovers in Lima, Bogotá, Panama City, and Mexico City. On 27 November 1962, the Boeing 707-441 operating the route crashed into a mountain on approach to Lima, killing all 97 passengers and crew.
Flight 62 of the North American X-15 was a sub-orbital spaceflight conducted by NASA and the US Air Force on 17 July 1962. The X-15 was piloted by astronaut Robert Michael White to an altitude of 95.9 km (59.6 mi) surpassing the U.S. definition of space.
On 9 November 1962, McKay undertook Flight 74 of the X-15 program on the X-15 56-6671 which was the Number-Two X-15 on its 31st flight. The X-15 was attached to its mothership the Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress 53-008, nicknamed Balls 8. McKay's mission was to reach an altitude of 125,000 feet (38,000 m) at Mach 5.5 and to fly the aircraft ...
The first official flight took place on 30 April and subsequent supersonic flight on 4 May 1962, reaching speeds of Mach 1.1 at 40,000 ft (12,000 m). [ 20 ] In 1962, the first five A-12s were initially flown with Pratt & Whitney J75 engines capable of 17,000 lbf (76 kN) [ citation needed ] thrust each, enabling the J75-equipped A-12s to obtain ...
Twelve pilots flew the X-15 over the course of its career. Scott Crossfield and William Dana flew the X-15 on its first and last free flights, respectively. Joseph Walker set the program's top two altitude records on its 90th and 91st free flights (347,800 and 354,200 feet, respectively), becoming the only pilot to fly past the Kármán line, the 100 kilometer, FAI-recognized boundary of outer ...
The flight took off from Ankara at 16:28 local time without taking any new passengers and headed to Adana Airport (ADA/LTAF) as a scheduled domestic flight. [5] The estimated arrival time was 17:40. At 17:28, the pilots reported that they were at flight level 175 (17,500 feet (5,300 m)) and requested clearance to approach. [ 3 ]
Continental Airlines Flight 11, registration N70775, was a Boeing 707 aircraft which exploded in the vicinity of Centerville, Iowa, United States, while en route from O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois, to Kansas City, Missouri, on May 22, 1962.