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The airline’s South Africa country lead points to digital convenience, personalisation and sustainability as the forces reshaping how people choose to fly. As South Africa observes Transport Month in October, Cathay Pacific said evolving traveller expectations around convenience, personalisation and
1983 – First flight of the CASA/IPTN CN-235
1982 – Canadian Anik C3 satellite was launched from the space shuttle Columbia.
1982 – Launch: Space shuttle Columbia STS-5 at 12:19:00 UTC. Mission highlights: Multiple comsat deployments. First EVA of program canceled due to suit problems.
1979 – Hawaiian Airlines celebrates 50 years of accident-free air passenger service.
1970 – The British government agrees to fund development of the Rolls-Royce RB211 turbofan, rescuing the project from Rolls-Royce‘s bankruptcy
1970 – A USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes in the North Sea after an engine fire. Both crew eject.
1966 – Gemini 12, the 18th manned American space-flight, launched.
1966 – Republic F-84F Thunderstreak of the 104th Tactical Fighter Group, Massachusetts Air National Guard out of Barnes Municipal Airport, Westfield, Massachusetts, goes into flat spin during simulated combat over Porter, Maine and crashes on Colcord Pond Road in Freedom, New Hampshire. Capt. Edward S. Mansfield has minor injuries; plane is destroyed. Star of the 551st AEWCW, out of Otis AFB, Massachusetts, crashes in the North Atlantic ~125 miles E of Nantucket, Massachusetts by unexplained circumstances, approximately the same general area as the one lost 11 July 1965. All 19 crew members are KWF, bodies never recovered.
1966 – A USAF Lockheed EC-121H-LO Warning Star of the 551st AEWCW, out of Otis AFB, Massachusetts, crashes in the North Atlantic ~125 miles E of Nantucket, Massachusetts by unexplained circumstances, approximately the same general area as the one lost 11 July 1965. All 19 crew members are KWF, bodies never recovered.
1956 – First flight of the Convair B-58 Hustler
1946 – First flight of the Sud-Ouest Triton, France’s first jet
1946 – First flight of the Avions Fairey Belfair
1946 – First flight of the Short Solent.
1941 – Saro Lerwick flying boat, L7257, of No. 4 OTU, sinks at mooring, Invergordon, when caught in a gale.
1940 – regular ferry flights of US-built warplanes commence across the Atlantic.
1937 – The Messerschmidt ME-109 V13 flies world record 379mph/610kph.
1935 – 11-13 – Jean Batten becomes the first woman to fly solo across the South Atlantic, taking 2 days 13 hours to cross from Senegal to Brazil in a Percival Gull. She also breaks the speed record for this crossing, by a full day.
1935 – A. W. Stevens and O. A. Anderson set a new balloon altitude record of 72,395 ft (22,066 m).
1929 – Inter-Island Airways – The future Hawaiian Airlines – commences operations.
1924 – Lt Dixie Kiefer makes the first night catapult launch from a ship, the USS California.
1922 – 1st Lt. Frank B. Tyndall is the second U.S. Army Air Service pilot to utilize a parachute in a life-saving effort when the Boeing-built MB-3A, (probably AS-68380) he is testing at Seattle, Washington sheds its wings in flight almost directly over the Boeing factory. He would later perish on 15 July 1930 in the crash of Curtiss P-1F Hawk, 28-61, near Mooresville, North Carolina. Tyndall Air Force Base is named in his honor.
1922 – Etienne Oehmichen flies 525 m (1,722 ft) in a helicopter.
1918 – The Armistice with Germany brings World War I to an end. The Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service, and Royal Air Force have suffered 16,623 casualties during the war, while the German Air Service has suffered in excess of 15,000.
