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2008 – First flight of the Boeing 777F
1993 – Introduction: Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
1988 – First flight of the SOCATA TBM F-WTBM
1982 – First flight of the Harbin Y-12, Chinese high wing twin-engine turboprop utility aircraft.
1978 – After receiving orders from United Airlines, Boeing begins full-scale development of the Boeing 767.
1971 – First flight of the VFW-Fokker 614
1965 – The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the First close-up photos of another planet.
1959 – Maj V Ilyushin sets a new altitude record of 28,852 m (94,659 ft) in the Sukhoi T-431
1954 – First prototype Handley Page Victor bomber, WB771, is lost when the tailplane detaches while making a low-level pass over the runway at Cranfield, causing the aircraft to crash with the loss of the crew. Attached to the fin using three bolts, the tailplane was subject to considerably more stress than had been anticipated and the three bolts failed due to metal fatigue.
1954 – First flight of the McDonnell XV-1
1951 – First flight of the production version of the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation.
1948 – Vampire F3 s of No. 54 Squadron RAF became the first jet aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. The six aircraft, commanded by Wg Cdr D S Wilson-MacDonald, DSO, DFC, go via Stornoway, Iceland and Labrador to Montreal on the first leg of a goodwill tour of Canada and the US where they gave several formation aerobatic displays.
1948 – First flight of The Supermarine Seagull ASR-1, British amphibious prototype, military flying boat and last to be built by the Supermarine company.
1948 – Silver City Airways makes the first car-carrying flight between England and France.
1938 – Howard Hughes flies a Lockheed 14N around the world in 3 days 19 hours, to and from Floyd Bennett Field New York, more than halving the time that Wiley Post took to make the trip.
1937 – Mikhail Gromov, A. B. Yumashev and S. A. Danilin established a new non-stop flight distance record of 10,148 km (6,306 mi) from Moscow to San Jacinto, California, U. S., via the North Pole in a Tupolev ANT-25.
1936 – First flight of the Kawanishi H6K (Allied reporting name “Mavis”).
1933 – July 14–22, Wiley Post, flying a Lockheed Vega, makes the first around the world solo flight. His flight begins and ends at Floyd Bennett Field in New York, with stops at Berlin, Moscow, Irkutsk and Alaska – A total distance of 25,099 km (15,596 miles).
1919 – A Fiat BR makes the first direct flight from Rome to Paris.
1919 – To protest against the fact that pilots have to parade on foot at the World War I victory parade on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, French pilot Charles Godefroy flies his Nieuport fighter under the arches of the Arc de Triomphe.
1916 – First flight of The Bristol M.1 Monoplane Scout, British WWI monoplane fighter.
1913 – First flight of the Cody Floatplane (also referred to as the Cody Hydro-biplane) was designed and built as an entrant in the 1913 Daily Mail Circuit of Britain race.
1914 – Dr. Robert H. Goddard is granted a patent for his liquid fuel rocket engine.
1905 – Orville Wright has a serious crash with Wright Flyer III, upon which the Wright Brothers radically alter the aircraft. The front rudder is mainly the culprit for the Flyer’s insistent pitching.
