On This Day In Aviation History

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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:29 am

On this day in 1947 (75 years ago) the McDonnell F2H Banshee flew for the first time.

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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Mon Jan 10, 2022 7:36 am

On this day in 2011 the Chengdu J-20 flew for the first time.

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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Mon Jan 10, 2022 4:24 pm

On this date in 1934 a flight of six US Navy Consolidated P2Y flying boats departed San Francisco westbound for Pearl Harbor. The P2Ys set a new distance record for formation flying of 2,400 miles and set a new speed record for the Frisco to Pearl crossing of 24 hours and 35 minutes
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Mon Jan 10, 2022 6:57 pm

On this date in 1966 the Bell OH-58 Kiowa flew for the first time.
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Mon Jan 10, 2022 9:20 pm

On this date in 1990 the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flew for the first time.
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Mon Jan 10, 2022 11:57 pm

80 years ago today:
On this date in 1942 the US Army announced the delivery of its first troop-transport gliders. Men of steel flew them!
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Tue Jan 11, 2022 4:09 pm

The story of the first and only B-52H Stratofortress’s tailless landing! OTD in 1964
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Tue Jan 11, 2022 8:52 pm

On this date in 1944 James Howard made history.
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Wed Jan 12, 2022 4:16 pm

On this date in 1973 a US Navy VF-161 Chargers F-4B Phantom II flown by LT Victor Kovaleski with RIO LTJG Jim Wise from the USS Midway (CVA-41) scored the 197th and final US air-to-air victory of the Vietnam War.
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Wed Jan 12, 2022 7:45 pm

On this date in 1965 Boeing delivered the last of the 820 KC-135s they built to the US Air Force.
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