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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2008-12-29, 11:45 |
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December 29
- 1940 - 29-30 - the Luftwaffe makes a devastating attack on London, making extensive use of incendiary weapons.
- 1927 - Georg Wulf, co-founded of Focke-Wulf is killed in the crash of the Focke-Wulf Fw 19
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-01, 02:46 |
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December 30
- 1935 - Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia.
- 1972 - President Richard Nixon halts aerial bombing of North Vietnam and announces peace talks.
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-01, 02:48 |
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December 31
- 1970 - Jeanne Holm becomes the USAF's first female General.
- 1967 - the Royal Air Force's V-bomber force begins to be dismantled, pending the deployment of the Polaris missile aboard Royal Navy submarines to act as Britain's nuclear deterrent.
- 1967 - NASA begins initial talks to develop guidelines for a re-usable spaceplane.
- 1922 - the first German aircraft flies over Britain since the end of World War I, a Deutsche Luft-Reederei Dornier Komet
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-01, 02:49 |
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January 1
- 1987 - US Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphins and US Navy H-3 Sea Kings help rescue people trapped inside the Dupont Plaza hotel Puerto Rico after a fire there on New Year's Eve
- 1978 - British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley, and Scottish Aviation are absorbed into British Aerospace
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-01, 12:36 |
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January 2 1967 - Seven North Vietnamese Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21s are destroyed by F-4 Phantoms of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing USAF in Operation Bolo 1965 - Denis Healey, the UK's Secretary of Defence cancels the nation's fighter and military transport programmes and orders the purchase of the US-built F-4 Phantom and C-130 Hercules in their place.
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GOOSE
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-03, 08:42 |
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January 3 Nothing of military interest
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-04, 07:09 |
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January 4
- 1989 - US Navy F-14 Tomcats shoot down two Libyan Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23s
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-05, 13:16 |
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January 5
- 1972 - US President Richard Nixon announces $US 5.5 billion in funding for the Space Shuttle program
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-06, 07:33 |
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January 6
- 1971 - the United States Marine Corps takes delivery of its first AV-8 Harriers
- 1931 - Gen Italo Balbo leads the first formation flight across the South Atlantic. Twelve Savoia-Marchetti S.55s fly from Portuguese Guinea to Brazil.
- 1928 - 6-8 - Lt Christian Schilt makes ten flights in an O2U Corsair to evacuate wounded marines from the besieged village of Quilali, Nicaragua. He is awarded the Medal of Honor.
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-07, 11:18 |
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January 7
- 1987 - French Air Force jets attack the Libyan Air Force base in Ouadi Doum to avenge a raid by Libya against the French military 3 days before.
- 1949 - No. 208 Squadron RAF loses four Supermarine Spitfires and a Hawker Tempest to Israeli Air Force fighters
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-08, 12:06 |
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January 8 Nothing of military interest
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-09, 13:35 |
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January 9
- 1986 - the UK Defence Secretary, Michael Heseltine, resigns amidst a political furore over the future of Westland Helicopters. Two weeks later, Leon Brittan, the Trade and Industry Secretary, will also resign.
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-10, 07:31 |
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January 10
- 1962 - 10-11 - a B-52 Stratofortress is flown from Okinawa to Madrid, establishing a new distance record of 12,532 miles (20,168 km)
- 1946 - a Sikorsky R5 sets an unofficial helicopter altitude record of 6,400 m (21,000 ft) at Stratford, Connecticut.
- 1934 - 10-11 - A flight of six US Navy Consolidated P2Y flying boats set a new distance record for formation flying, 2,400 miles (3,862 km) between San Francisco and Pearl Harbor, also setting a new speed record for this crossing of 24 hours 35 minutes.
- 1919 - Airco DH.4s of No.2 Squadron, RAF are converted for transporting passengers and mail between London and Paris, in support of the Versailles Peace Conference
- 1912 - Lieutenant commander Charles Samson flies a Short S.38 from the deck of battleship HMS Africa moored in the River Medway, England, becoming the first British naval aviator.
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-11, 09:12 |
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January 11
- 1990 - The US Defense Department awards Bell Helicopter a $US 123 million development contract for the V-22 Osprey
- 1944 - in one of the largest air raids to date, 570 USAAF bombers strike Brunswick, Halberstadt, and Oschersleben.
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-12, 14:30 |
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January 12
- 1979 - Pilatus Aircraft acquires Britten-Norman
- 1973 - A US Navy F-4 Phantom scores the 197th and final US air-to-air victory of the Vietnam War
- 1939 - the RAF Auxiliary Air Force Reserve is formed
- 1916 - German aces Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke, with 8 kills, are the first pilots awarded with Pour le Mérite ("the Blue Max")
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-13, 11:44 |
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January 13
- 1913 - Brazilian naval aviation commences with the foundation of a flying school.
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-14, 11:11 |
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January 14
- 1975 - the F-16 Fighting Falcon is announced as the winner of the LWF (Light Weight Fighter) competition
picture copyright GD / Lockheed
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-15, 12:11 |
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January 15
- 1992 - the USAF loses a Lockheed U-2 in the Sea of Japan
- 1973 - final B-52 Stratofortress mission of the Vietnam War
- 1935 - Maj James Doolittle establishes a record for a transport flight across the United States, from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey in 11 hours 59 minutes.
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-16, 11:55 |
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January 16 1919 - Maj A.S.C. MacLaren and Cpt Robert Halley arrive in Delhi, completing the first England-India flight, in a Handley Page V/1500
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-17, 02:28 |
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January 17
- 1991 - US-led forces attack Iraq in a massive air assault after a United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from occupied Kuwait passes unheeded.
- 1966 - a B-52 Stratofortress collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker during aerial refueling near Palomares, Spain. Seven crewmembers are killed in the crash, and two of the B-52's four nuclear weapons rupture, scattering radioactive material over the countryside. One bomb lands intact near the town, and another is lost at sea. It is later recovered intact 5 miles (8 km) offshore.
picture copyright USAF
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Subject: Today in Military Aviation History. 2009-01-17, 08:04 |
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The 17th, January, 1975 Ben Rich took over The Skunk Works (Lockheed) from The Legendary Kelly
Johnson. Ben Rich was resonsible for the design and development of the Have Blue Project which
later became The F117. which first flew in August 1979.
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-18, 08:47 |
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January 18
- 1992 - the United States armed forces retire the last F-4 Phantom II from front-line service
- 1981 - Bell Helicopter delivers its 25,000th production helicopter.
- 1973 - Results of the USAF A-X fly-off announced, with the Fairchild YA-10 selected over the Northrop YA-9.
- 1957 - Three Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses make the world's first round the world, non-stop flight by turbojet-powered aircraft. The flight is completed in 45 hours 19 minutes, with an average speed of 534 mph (859 km/h)
- 1911 - Eugene Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-19, 11:39 |
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January 19
- 1916 - the second and last Zeppelin raid on Paris inflicts 54 casualties.
- 1915 - First Zeppelin raid on the UK by the German Navy.
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-19, 11:41 |
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January 20 1938 - A Flight Refuelling Ltd Armstrong Whitworth AW.23 refuels an Imperial Airways Short Empire over Southampton Water (posted early - long shift tomorrow)
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Subject: Re: Today in Military Aviation History (Now includes first flights) 2009-01-21, 11:06 |
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January 21
- 1968 - a US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashes in the sea near Thule AFB Greenland, carrying four nuclear weapons.
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