Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Boeing and Millennium Space Systems are expanding satellite production and introducing a new mid-class platform to meet growing demand. PRODUCTION CAPACITY EXPANDED Boeing and its
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Baltic Ground Services has expanded its fueling partnership with Wizz Air, supporting operations across key Baltic airports. PARTNERSHIP EXTENDED Baltic Ground Services (BGS) has strengthened its long-standing partnership with Wizz Air, extending aircraft fueling services across multiple Baltic airports. Â The agreement covers operations at Tallinn,
2010 – A Spanish Air Force Bell 212 crashed in Haiti near the border with the Dominican Republic killing all 4 crew on board.
2004 – CH-47D Chinook 92-0301 from C Company/193rd Aviation Brigade (Hawaii Army National Guard) makes hard landing during sandstorm and was later destroyed. Crew members safe.[1]
1988 – First flight of the McDonnell Douglas T-45 Goshawk
1980 – A contract was signed at CFB Uplands for 173 CF-18 A Hornet fighter aircraft.
1973 – Entered Service: Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante with Transbrasil
1970 – US Navy McDonnell Douglas TA-4F Skyhawk from NAS Oceana, Virginia, and USAF North American T-39A-1-NA Sabreliner, 61-0640, c/n 265-43, en route from Shaw AFB, South Carolina to Langley AFB, Virginia, collided in mid-air, the T-39 coming down over residential area of Weldon, North Carolina, but no one on the ground was injured and wreckage missed homes.
1969 – First flight of the Let L-410 Turbolet
1961 – First flight of the Beagle Airedale.
1958 – U.S. Air Force pilot 1st Lt. Robert Yoshizumi, 26, of Honolulu, survives ejection from his disabled North American F-100C-25-NA Super Sabre, 54-1982, at 300 feet (91 m) altitude. Fighter, of 36th Fighter-Day Wing, 22nd Fighter-Day Squadron, Bitburg Air Base, crashes in eastern suburb of Matzen, West Germany after entering spin. He suffers only minor injuries as his parachute swings one time before landing.
1956 – Entered Service: Douglas F4D Skyray, the United States Navy’s first supersonic fighter, with Composite Squadron 13 (VC-13)
1949 – First flight of the Lockheed F-94 Starfire
1941 – Lt. j.g. Yasushi Nikaido, fighter squadron leader of the Imperial Japanese Navy carrier Kaga, survives close call when Mitsubishi A6M, number 140, loses both port and starboard ailerons as well as part of the upper wing surface while performing dive of 550 km/h at 2,300 rpm, but pilot makes skilful emergency landing at Kisarazu Air Field. Accident is reported to Naval Aeronautical Headquarters, the Naval Aeronautical Technical
Establishment, and the Yokosuka Air Corps.
1941 – Igor I. Sikorsky impressively demonstrates the capabilities of his VS-300 helicopter by hovering virtually motionless over Stratford (Connecticut) Airport for one hour, five minutes. Powered by a large, 90-hp engine, it sets a new helicopter record.
1937 – Entered Service: Supermarine Stranraer
1935 – 16-17 – A Pan Am Sikorsky S-42 makes the first airline flight from the continental US to Hawaii.
1935 – Flying Officer Clive Newton Edgerton takes off from Laverton in RAAF Westland Wapiti, A5-31, but after entering a steep dive from 15,000 feet is unable to recover. “The structure of the aircraft failed during the test flight and the aircraft crashed at Werribee.” Witnesses reported that the wings failed and folded back along the fuselage. The lower starboard wing landed in a paddock 1½ miles from the fuselage. The Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee (AAIC) reported that “The tailplane actuating gear was in full forward position…the aircraft had five ballast weights in the tail…when there should have been six, and in addition another four in the passenger’s cockpit, so that the aircraft was obviously tail light and nose heavy. Apparently the pilot had his tail actuating gear into the full forward, giving maximum lift to the tail to enable him to go into a dive.” The speed of Edgerton’s dive was so great that the blades of the airscrew were pulled from the boss by the centrifugal force.
1929 – First flight of the Short Gurnard(two-seat biplane naval fighter) in his landplane form.
1923 – 17 – Lt John A. Macready and Lt Oakley G. Kelly establish a new endurance record, staying aloft for 36 hours 5 min in a Fokker T-2, covering a distance of 2,518 miles (4,052 km).
1922 – Taking advantage of the Treaty of Rapallo, a flying school for German pilots is set up at Lipetsk. By 1933, 450 German military pilots will have trained here.
1915 – The United States Navy conducts the first catapult launch of an aircraft (an AB-2 seaplane) from a floating platform, launching an airplane from Navy Coal Barge No. 214 at Naval Air Station Pensacola at Pensacola, Florida.
1914 – The Canadian Aviation Corps is formed.
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