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Today In Military/Aviation History 25 - 31 May

May 24, 2009 9:43 pm

Well Folks, another seven have left the building. I’m here to tell you it was a quick AND expensive one for me. I hate when that happens, but what are ya gonna do? Say, listen, tomorrow is Memorial Day (Observed) and next Saturday is the real Memorial Day. Would you do me a favor? On BOTH days, could you find some time and read what follows? I and the Folks mentioned would really appreciate it.

All Veterans and soldiers not alive, I thank you, WWII Veterans, I thank you, Korean Veterans, I thank you. Vietnam Veterans, I thank you. Persian Gulf and Desert Storm Veterans, I thank you. Those in Iraq and Afghanistan, I thank you. Some of you have been other places too, and I thank you also.

Now, let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?

Have an ABsolutely FANtastic week,

Take Care and Be Safe,

Tom K.

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26 May 1904
The Wright brothers begin a series of over 100 flights in Flyer No.II.

25 May 1910
The Wright brothers fly together for the first time at Dayton in Ohio.

27 May 1910
Italian Ugo Tabachi pilots the first trial flight of the Caproni Ca1 monoplane, built by Gianni Caproni.

30 May 1912
Pioneer aviator Wilbur Wright dies from typhoid fever.

28 May 1913
The full-size ‘Aerodrome’, designed by Samuel Pierpont Langley, is flown after modifications during reconstruction.

26 May 1915
Seventeen French Voisin biplanes of Groupe de Bombardment I conduct an attack on a strategic military target at Ludwigshafen in Germany.

Oberleutnant Kastner and Leutnant Georg Langhoff (observer) attack and shoot down a French Voisin in their Halberstadt C-type at Dournai in France. This is the first intentional attack by a German aeroplane on another armed aeroplane.

27 May 1915
Four days after Italy declares war, an Austrian Lohner L1 flying-boat is captured by the Italians off the Italian coast.

31 May 1915
German Zeppelin LZ38 makes the first bombing raid on London, dropping 3,000 pounds of bombs, killing seven civilians and injuring fourteen.

25 May 1917
Twenty-one aircraft attack Folkestone and Shorncliffe in Kent, in the first large daylight raid by German Gotha bombers. The attack leaves 95 dead and 260 injured and one Gotha is destroyed and another damaged by fighters based in France.

30 May 1917
After flying overnight from Chicago, the United States Navy’s B1 dirigible (steerable airship) arrives at Akron, Ohio.

31 May 1917
Austrian pilot Linienschiffleutnant G.Banfield, at the controls of a Pfalz AII fighter, forces down an Italian seaplane, achieving the first Austro-Hungarian victory against enemy night bombers.

29 May 1918
Brigadier General Mason Patrick is made Chief of the US Air Service in France.

31 May 1918
1st Lt Douglas Campbell shoots down his fifth German airplane to become the US Army’s first ace.

27 May 1927
The first French aircraft carrier, ‘Béarn’, is finally completed after 7 years of construction.

27 May 1933
Japan withdraws from the League of Nations.

29 May 1937
German battleship ‘Deutchland’ is attacked by Spanish Republican air units near Ivaza in the Balearic Islands. 28 people are killed and 71 injured.

31 May 1939
A German/Danish non-aggression pact is signed in Berlin.

29 May 1945
An advance party of the 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) arrives in the Mariana Islands.

31 May 1945
The United States War Department announces that a woman and five children have been killed by a Japanese bomb-carrying balloon on 5 March at Lake View in Oregon.

31 May 1950
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is to send a squadron of Douglas Dakota transport aircraft to assist British forces in Malaya.

29 May 1951
The first solo trans-Polar flight is made by American C. Blair, flying a North American P-51 Mustang from Bardufoss in Norway to Fairbanks in Alaska. He covers 3,375 miles in 10 hours 29 minutes.

31 May 1951
Captain Charles F. Blair lands at Idlewild Airport in New York after flying non-stop in a Mustang from Fairbanks in Alaska, covering 3,450 miles in 9 hours 31minutes. This is the first solo flight across the North Pole in a single engined aircraft.

26 May 1953
Twelve Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 jet fighters are shot down over North Korea.

25 May 1954
United States Navy (USN) ZPG2 airship, flown by Commander M.H. Eppes and crew, lands at Key West Florida after being airborne for just over 200 hours.

31 May 1955
Jacqueline Auriol flies the Dassault Mystere IVN to a speed of 715mph to obtain the women’s world speed record.

27 May 1956
Performance figures for Russian Tu-104 twin jet airliner are published at the Zurich airshow.

29 May 1956
The formation of Air League of New Zealand is announced.

30 May 1957
The United States Air Force (USAF) discloses the development of the Hughes Falcon air-to-air guided missile armed with a nuclear warhead.

28 May 1959
Two monkeys, Able and Baker are recovered unharmed after a 483 kilometer (300 mile) flight in a compartment in the nose cone of a Jupiter rocket.

29 May 1969
Following the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Airbus programme, France and Germany sign an agreement to initiate joint development of the A300B.

25 May 1970
The United States Government announces that its nuclear missiles are to be equipped with multiple warheads, called Multiple Individual Re-entry Vehicles (MIRVs).

26 May 1972
The Cessna aircraft company announces the completion of the company’s 100,000th aircraft, the first company in the world to achieve this figure.

30 May 1972
Three Japanese terrorists kill 25 people and injure 72 at Tel Aviv Airport in Israel when they remove guns and grenades from their luggage and begin shooting. The terrorists had just stepped off a flight from Rome.

30 May 1975
The European Space Agency (ESA) is founded.

25 May 1979
In a serious accident on take-off from Chicago Airport, involving a McDonnell Douglas DC10 which loses its engine - the aircraft is lost and the type is grounded for safety reasons.

29 May 1985
The world’s largest aircraft, the Antonov AN124 arrives at Le Bourget airport for the Paris Air Show, and makes its first public appearance.

29 May 1987
19 year old West German Mathias Rust lands a light plane in Moscow’s Red Square.

27 May 1988
The McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom celebrates 30 years of flying and is still operational with twelve air forces.

25 May 2003
Boeing 727 mysteriously disappears in Angola, along with pilot Ben Charles Padilla.

27 May 2004
Delta Air Lines begins service between Cincinnati and New Haven.

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That’s it for this week Folks. See ya in seven.

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Today In Military/Aviation History 18 - 24 May

May 17, 2009 10:49 pm

Greetings Folks. Seven more gone and I’m back. Where does the time go? Well, guess what? That camera I got last week was defective. I couldn’t get it to talk to my computer no matter how hard I tried. Even waterboarding wouldn’t work. I gave up and took it back Thursday. This one still won’t talk to the Canon software, but will talk to Picasa. Hey, I’ll take it. I passed up some nice pictures because I was reluctant to take a chance of not being able to get the shots from the camera to computer. Bah! It’s always something. Let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?

Have an AB FAN week,

Take Care and Be Safe,

Tom K.

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20 May 1909
A Frenchman, Paul Tissandier, makes the first officially recognized world speed record for an aeroplane in a Wright biplane, achieving 54kph (34mph).

18 May 1910
International talks open in Paris to form a legal basis for flight between countries.

21 May 1910
Frenchman Jacques de Lesseps wins 12,500 francs for a 37 minute flight from Calais and the £100 Daily Mail cup for the second English Channel flight.

24 May 1910
Prince Charles of Romania becomes the first royal aeroplane passenger, in a Farman piloted by M. Osmontat at Bucharest.

21 May 1911
French Minister of War Maurice Berteaux is killed and Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe is injured when a Train monoplane crashes in Paris at the start of the Paris-Madrid air race.

22 May 1912
A United States Marine Corps (USMC) officer is ordered to commence flying training.

24 May 1912
Anthony Fokker crashes his Goedecker-built B1912 monoplane at Berlin, just 10 days after demonstrating it to the German Army.

18 May 1914
The first regular Airmail service is inaugurated in German South West Africa with a Roland biplane, making its first flight between Swakopmund and Windhoek. The service comes to an end when British forces invade the country at the outbreak of the First World War.

21 May 1915
The Spad A2 biplane fighter undergoes it’s first flight tests in France.

18 May 1916
Lieutenant Kiffin Rockwell of the Escadrille Americaine, becomes the first American pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft.

19 May 1917
The United States Government agrees to send an Army division to France.

22 May 1917
Italian military air mail service is established between Turin and Rome.

24 May 1917
French Premier Alexandre Ribot requests American aid in the shape of 5,000 pilots, 4,500 aircraft and 50,000 mechanics.

18 May 1918
The 96th Aero Squadron, the first American bomber unit, forms in France.

19 May 1918
In the latest of a series of monthly raids on London and the Home Counties by German Gotha bombers and Staaken airships, 49 civilians are killed and 179 injured as bombs fell in residential areas before midnight

Hauptmann H Kohl receives the Pour le Mérite for flying 800 missions.

20 May 1918
Overman Act creates the Bureau of Aircraft Production and the Division of Military Aeronautics. The United States Army Air Service is formed from these on 24 May.

24 May 1918
US Army Air Service is formed.

The Chief Directorate of the Workers and Peasants Military Air Fleet (GU-RKKVF: Glavoce Upravlenie-Raboche-Krestyanskogo Vozdushhnogo Flota) replaces the All-Russian Air Board.

19 May 1924
Wing Commander Goble and Flight Lieutenant McIntyre of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) complete their round-Australia flight. The flight took 90 hours in a Fairey IIID.

20-21 May 1927
Captain Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, west to east transatlantic crossing in a specially-built Ryan NYP (New York to Paris) Monoplane, ‘Spirit of St Louis’.

It took Lindberg 33 hours 39 minutes to complete the flight from Long Island in New York to Paris in France. The distance covered was 5,778 kilometers (3,590 miles).

23 May 1928
The Italian airship ‘Italia’ attempts a flight to North Pole, but crashes on the return flight.

20 May 1929
The Peruvian Army and Naval Air Services are amalgamated into the Cuerpo de Aeronautica del Perú.

18 May 1930
The German airship LZ127 Graf Zeppelin makes its first crossing of the South Atlantic.

19-24 May 1932
A Dornier DoX flying boat flies back from New York to its base at Friedrichshafen in Germany.

20-21 May 1932
Amelia Earhart, flying a Lockheed Vega, becomes the first woman to make solo flight across the North Atlantic. The flight is from Harbor Grace in Newfoundland to Londonderry in Northern Ireland.

18 May 1935
The world’s worst air disaster to date occurs when ANT-20 Maxim Gorky collides with another aircraft near Tushino, causing the death of 56 people.

20 May 1939
The first large scale air battle between Soviet and Japanese aircraft occurs in Outer Mongolia near Khalkin Gol.

22 May 1945
United States authorities disclose that Japanese balloon attacks have been, and continue to be made on the United States. One balloon had come down in Montana and another in British Columbia.

20 May 1948
The Israeli air force is in action against Arab forces for the first time.

18 May 1949
The first New York helicopter station is established at Pier 41 East River.

21 May 1949
A Sikorsky S52 helicopter establishes a new helicopter altitude record of 6,468 meters (21,220 feet) over Stratford in Connecticut.

20 May 1951
Captain James Jabara of the 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing of the United States Air Force (USAF) in Korea, an F-86 Sabre pilot, becomes the first jet pilot to score five unconfirmed victories over jet aircraft, by destroying two Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s.

18 May 1953
American airwoman Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound, piloting a Canadian built version of the North American F-86E Sabre at a speed of Mach 1.01 (652mph).

20 May 1953
Another Polish pilot lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 jet on Bornholm Island.

18 May 1956
The United States press highlights the ‘Colonel’s revolt’, revealing bitter interservice rivalry.

21 May 1956
The first United States hydrogen bomb is released from an aircraft, a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress eight-engined jet bomber, and exploded over Bikini atoll in the Pacific.

24 May 1957
The Canadian airline Nordair begins scheduled operations.

23 May 1958
Frenchwoman Colette Duval sets a new world record by parachuting into the Atlantic without oxygen from an altitude of 40,700 feet.

24 May 1958
The Bell X-14 Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft makes its first transition from hovering to forward flight.

24 May 1962
Mercury capsule Arora 7 takes Lieutenant Commander M. Scott Carpenter of the United States Navy (USN) into a three orbit space flight. Problems with re-entry mean the capsule splashes down 420 kilometers (260 miles) from the intended target area.

19 May 1972
An Indian Government spokesman in New Delhi says that Indian security forces have orders to destroy all Pakistani aircraft violating India’s airspace.

23 May 1974
Europe’s first wide-body airliner, an Airbus A300B2 of Air France, makes its inaugural fare paying flight from Paris to London.

24 May 1976
Filipino Troops storm a Philippines Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC9 that was hijacked the day before by six terrorists and flown to Zamboanga airport. Three hijackers are killed, among ten deaths in the ensuing battle, and the remaining three hijackers are captured.

21 May 1977
Concorde makes a special flight from New York to Paris on the 50th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s flight of the same route. Whereas Lindbergh took 33 hours 29 minutes, Concorde took just 3 hours 44 minutes.

20 May 1978
McDonnell Douglas delivers its 5,000th McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom aircraft, twenty years after the first flight of the prototype.

21 May 1978
Tokyo’s new Narita International Airport becomes operational 4 years late, largely due to protest action.

20 May 1981
Hughes Helicopters announces the beginning of construction of a prototype helicopter that will use pressurized air instead of a standard tail rotor.

20 May 1982
Boeing Vertol delivers the first production CH-47D to the United States Army.

23 May 1988
The first Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft is completed.

22 May 1990
The final flight of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter in Luftwaffe service, before the aircraft is withdrawn from service.

19 May 1998
Fairchild Dornier launch a new regional jet at the Schonefeld Air Show. The 55-seat 528-JET and the stretched 100-seat 928-JET are both wide-body aircraft due to be available by 2003.

20 May 1998
France and Germany order the first 160 Tiger attack helicopters from Eurocopter.

23 May 2004
Frontier Airlines begins service to Philadelphia, Billings, Montana and Spokane, Washington.

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That’s all for this week Folks. See ya in seven.

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Today In Military/Aviation History 11 - 17 May

May 10, 2009 10:02 pm

Yep, already It’s Sunday evening and here I am again. Well, we reached a major milestone on the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum Website Message Board (AKA MB) which I moderate. On Tuesday we hosted our 100,000th visitor since the Visitor Count began in January 2007. I think this is outstanding and am really pleased with the support I’m receiving. I also had a setback on Wednesday. Somehow the LCD screen on my digital camera got hit and I had a nice black blob to look at. Well, today I went and got a new camera, because I was told that it would be more cost-effective to replace rather than repair, and to be honest, I really want to play with it, so let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?

Have an AB FAN week,

Take Care and Be Safe,

Tom K.

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14 May 1908
Charles W. Furnas of Dayton in Ohio, becomes the first aircraft passenger. One of the Wright brothers’ mechanics, Wilbur Wright took him on a flight of 1,968 feet which lasted 29 seconds at Kill Devil Hills in Kittyhawk, North Carolina.

11 May 1911
Edouard Nieport sets a new speed record of 74mph in his Nieuport monoplane with a 28 horse-power engine.

16 May 1911
Delag passenger carrying Zeppelin LZ8 ‘Ersatz Deutschland’ is destroyed in a docking accident, but there are no casualties.

13 May 1913
The Russky Vitiaz is the first aeroplane fitted with a lavatory. The aircraft was a passenger transport, designed by Igor Sikorski and test flown on this date. It has not been possible to confirm if the lavatory was a water closet although some references identify it as such. This 4-engined precursor to the heavy bomber was piloted by Igor Sikorsky at St Petersburg and had a wingspan of 28 meters (92 feet).

17 May 1913
Domingo Rosillo flies from Key West in Florida to Havana in Cuba, in a Morane-Saulnier monoplane.

11 May 1915
Continuous airship raids on England are ordered by the German High Command.

14 May 1915
The United States Navy (USN) orders it’s first airship from the Connecticut Aircraft Company.

14 May 1917
Zeppelin LZ64 (L22) is shot down by a British flying boat with the loss of all hands.

15 May 1917
German Leutnant Heinrich Gontermann is awarded the Pour le Mérite. Gontermann achieved eighteen victories against Allied balloons, once shooting down four in three minutes. He is killed in a crash while testing a new Fokker DRI.

11 May 1918
The American Expeditionary Force receives the first United States built de havilland DH4.

Italian Corpo Aeronautico Militare aircraft are used to fly an air service across the Tyrrhenian Sea, which lasts for a month.

15 May 1918
The United States Army Signal Corp establishes the first American airmail service between New York and Washington, using Curtiss JN and Standard J aircraft.

Captain Rudolph W. Schroeder attains a height of 10,093 meters. (33,113 feet) flying from Dayton, Ohio, in a Packard-Le Père LUSAC-11 fighter, powered by a liberty12 engine, fitted with a Turbocharger.

15 May 1919
The United States Post office inaugurates the first section of a transcontinental airmail service between Chicago and Cleveland.

11-14 May 1926
In the first airship flight over the North Pole, Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian expedition leader, uses the airship ‘Norge’ to fly from Spitzbergen to Teller in Alaska.

15 May 1928
The first Australian flying doctor service commences, with Dr K.H. Vincent Welsh using a de Havilland DH50

15 May 1930
Miss Ellen Church, a registered nurse from Iowa, becomes the first air hostess as she welcomes 11 passengers on board a United Airlines Boeing 80A tri-motor at Oakland in California.

For $125 a month the United Airlines female hostesses were involved in ground handling duties and in the air they dispensed unvarying meals consisting of fruit cocktail, fried chicken and rolls, and tea or coffee.

13 May 1934
United States airmail pilot Jack Frye sets a new United States coast-to-coast record, carrying mail from Los Angeles to Newark. The journey is completed in 11 hours 31 minutes.

16 May 1935
Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union conclude an alliance.

13 May 1936
Italy annexes Abyssinia.

15 May 1938
H.L. Ickes, United States Secretary of State for the Interior, confirms his refusal to supply helium gas to Germany.

13 May 1940
The Sikorsky VS300 single rotor helicopter, which uses a small rotor at the tail to overcome main rotor torque, makes its first free flight.

14 May 1940
The Rotterdam business center is bombed during surrender discussions. The raid is an error, as all bomber groups were recalled as soon as the negotiations began, but unfortunately one group failed to receive the recall instructions. The world is shocked by this bombing.

13-14 May 1941
The first major deployment of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft in the Pacific. The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) flies 21 aircraft from Hamilton Field in California to Hickham Field in Hawaii.

13 May 1943
Axis troops in North Africa surrender.

12 May 1949
The Soviet Union ends the blockade of Berlin, but the Allied airlift continues until 30 September 1949 to build up stocks in the city.

17 May 1950
Transcontinental & Western Air changes its name to Trans World Airlines (TWA), to reflect its world-wide operations.

14 May 1953
India’s air transport companies are nationalized, with the formation of Air India International Ltd for long distance flights and Indian Air Lines for internal routes and services to nearby countries.

15 May 1953
Central British Columbia Airways adopts the name Pacific Western airlines.

15 May 1954
Qantas Empire Airways takes over the Australia to United States and Canada service, previously operated by British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines, which then cease to exist as a separate company.

16 May 1955
Lufthansa begins its European international operations.

17 May 1956
Douglas Aircraft Company announces that the DC-7C, the first airliner with sufficient range for non-stop crossings of the North Atlantic or North Pacific, has been granted an airworthiness certificate.

12 May 1958
The joint United States-Canada, North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), is formally established.

16 May 1958
The first world speed record over 2,000kph is set by Captain W.W. Irvin of the United States Air Force (USAF), in a Lockheed F-104A Starfighter attaining a speed of 2,259kph (1,403mph).

11 May 1960
A United States Army Signals Corps balloon ascends to an altitude of 43,890 meters (144,000 feet) before bursting. This is a record breaking night time altitude ascent.

17 May 1960
Khrushchev angrily denounces American spying activities over the Soviet Union, resulting from the Gary Powers incident, causing the break-up of a Summit conference in Paris.

11 May 1964
Jacqueline Cochran sets a new world speed record for women over a 15/25 kilometer course of 2,300kph (1,499mph). Her aircraft is a Lockheed F-104G Starfighter.

12 May 1964
American Joan Merriam becomes the second woman to fly solo round the world. She takes 56 days to complete the journey in a route originally planned by Amelia Earhart. She makes the flight in a Piper Apache.

15 May 1980
Lufthansa-Unternehmen inaugurates Lockheed L101 1-500 TriStar services on its Dusseldorf to Los Angeles route.

12 May 1982
The airline Braniff International collapses due to the recession in the United States.

13 May 1982
Soyuz T5 is launched from Baikonur with two cosmonauts and successfully links up with the Salyut 7 orbiting laboratory.

15 May 1982
A SOCATA TB10 Tobago makes its first flight after having its Avco Lycoming engine converted to run on liquid petroleum gas (LPG).

17 May 1982
The crew of Salyut 7 place an amateur radio satellite into earth orbit. This is believed to be the first launch of a satellite from a space station.

17 May 1987
An Iraqi Exocet missile hits the USS Stark, killing 37 people.

15 May 1989
American Airlines becomes the 19th operator to be connected to the ‘Amadeus’ computerized reservation system.

14 May 1999
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) takes delivery of its first Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor.

16 May 2000
Singapore Airlines announces it is ‘in talks’ with Airbus with a view to purchasing up to sixteen A3XX aircraft.

15 May 2001
The Joint Strike Fighter Program Office begins talks with Brazil and Germany on possible participation in the engineering and manufacturing development phases of the program.

12 May 2004
The last F-4 Phantom fighters are withdrawn from service with the Israeli Air Force.

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That’s it for this week Folks, see ya in seven.

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Today In Military/Aviation History 4- 10 May

May 3, 2009 10:31 pm

Hello Folks, it’s about that time where I blatantly use this forum to advertise the two things I’m most involved with. 1. The 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Website Message Board which I moderate. Please stop by and check us out. You may see something you like. 2. The 2009 Greatest Show On Turf. This year’s theme is GO NAVY. Stop by the Museum’s Website for all the details : www.1941hag.org Hope to see you there!! Now, that being said, let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?

Have an AB FAN week,

Take Care and Be Safe,

Tom K.

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7 May 1910
The Antoinette Company builds a simulator at Mourmelon air school for pilots to practice the controls of an Antoinette monoplane.

5 May 1911
Anthony Fokker pilots his second Spinne (Spider) monoplane with a 50 horse-power engine.

Baron Sandji Narahara flies a biplane to 196 feet with a 50 horse-power Gnome engine.

7 May 1912
An American Wright biplane, flown by Lieutenant Thomas De Witt Milling at College Park in Maryland, becomes the first aeroplane to be armed with a machine gun.

9 May 1912
In Sydney, William Hart is fined £20 for causing a herd of cattle to stampede by flying over them.

10 May 1913
Didier Masson drops bombs from an aeroplane on Mexican gunships in Guaymas Bay.

4 May 1916
Zeppelin LZ32 is shot down and destroyed by British naval gunfire.

10 May 1916
The French Air Force places an order for 268 Spad VII fighters.

7 May 1917
The first night bombing raid on London by an aeroplane takes place.

2-3 May 1923
Lieutenant O.G. Kelly and Lieutenant J.A. Macready of the United States Army Air Service (USAAS) make the first non-stop flight across the United States. Flying a Fokker T2, the journey time is 26 hours 50 minutes. They leave Roosevelt Field, Long Island and land at Rockwell Field in California.

9 May 1926
Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd of the United States Navy (USN) and Floyd Bennett make the first over-flight of the North Pole, in Fokker F.VIIA-3m ‘Josephine Ford’.

8 May 1927
Charles Eugène Jules Marie Nungesser, the French First World War fighter ace, goes missing in a Levasseur PL8, during an attempted east to west crossing of the North Atlantic.

9 May 1932
The first blind solo-flight, controlled entirely on instruments, is made at Dayton in Ohio by Captain A.F. Hegenberger, flying a Consolidated NY2 trainer.

5 May 1935
Amelia Earhart makes non-stop flight from Mexico City to Newark in New Jersey, in 14 hours 19 minutes.

5 May 1936
Mussolini announces the occupation of Addis Ababa and the end of the Abyssinian war - a war in which modern weapons, such as aircraft and poison gas were used against a primitive poorly equipped enemy.

6 May 1937
German hydrogen-filled airship, the ‘Hindenburg’, is destroyed by fire whilst docking at Lakehurst in New Jersey. 33 of the 97 people on board are killed.

8 May 1937
A new altitude record is set at Montecelio in Italy when Lieutenant Colonel M. Pezzi flies a Caproni 161 to 15,655 meters (51,362 feet).

10 May 1940
The German invasion of the Low Countries begins. There is extensive use of paratroops and airborne Troops and Belgium’s Fort Eban Emael, considered impregnable, is quickly and easily overcome by glider-borne assault troops. Luftwaffe records show their losses for the first day are 304 gliders destroyed and 51 damaged.

10-11 May 1941
Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer of Germany, flies to United Kingdom in a Messerschmitt Bf 110 and lands by parachute in Scotland. While the purpose of the flight is still a matter of controversy, it is thought that when he eventually identified himself he claimed his mission was one of peace.

7-8 May 1942
The Battle of Coral Sea is fought. This is the first naval action to be fought by opposing carrier-based aircraft where the surface ships on both sides never sight the enemy. The United States Navy (USN) loses USS Lexington and 69 aircraft and the Japanese lose Shoho and 85 aircraft and Shokaku is also damaged.

10 May 1942
USS Ranger, operating off the west African Gold Coast flies off sixty United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Curtiss P-40 aircraft to Accra. They are then flown on by stages, to 10th USAAF in India.

10 May 1944
A major engineering task to construct bomber and fighter airfields in China, the Chengtu Project, is completed. The project used over 400,000 Chinese coolies, often using the most primitive of equipment, to finish the task.

7 May 1945
Documents for the unconditional surrender of all German forces are signed at General Eisenhower’s Headquarters. Ratified in Berlin, the war in Western Europe ends officially at midnight.

5 May 1948
The first carrier-based jet squadron, United States Navy (USN) 17A, is established with sixteen Phantoms and operates from the USS Saipan from 5 to 7 May.

8 May 1950
South African Airways receives its first Lockheed Constellation ZS-DBR, ‘Cape Town’.

7 May 1954
Britain, France and the United States reject a Russian application to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

7 May 1958
Major H.C. Johnson, flying a Lockheed F-104A Starfighter, sets the third new world altitude record in less than three weeks, attaining a height of 27,811 meters (91,243 feet).

6 April 1959
It is announced in the United States that seven pilots have been selected from the nation’s armed services for training as space vehicle pilots.

7 May 1960
A Lockheed U2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft over-flying the Soviet Union at an altitude of 43,890 meters (144,000 feet), piloted by Gary Powers, is shot down by a Soviet surface-to-air missile near Sverdlovsk.

5 May 1961
Alan B. Shepard becomes the first American in space, when he is carried into a sub-orbital trajectory in a Mercury capsule on a flight lasting 15 minutes 22 seconds.

5 May 1968
A Grumman Gulfstream II lands at London Gatwick after completing a 5,633 kilometer (3,500 mile) flight from Teterboro in New Jersey, becoming the first executive jet to make a non-stop transatlantic flight.

10 May 1972
Lieutenant Randy Cunningham and Lieutenant (Junior Grade) William Driscoll of the United States Navy (USN) shoot down Colonel Toon, the top North Vietnamese ace and two other MiG-17 aircraft and become the first United States aces of the Vietnam war. Later in the same mission, their aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom, is hit by a surface-to-air missile (SAM), but they successfully return to their aircraft carrier.

8 May 2001
The New Zealand Government announces the disbandment of its two squadrons of A-4 Skyhawks and abandons all fast jet training. All flying tasks will end by 1 December 2001.

5 May 2004
Air France and Netherlands-based KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) merge, the two airlines are now known as Air France-KLM.

9 May 2004
Southwest Airlines begins service to Philadelphia International Airport.

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Today In Military/Aviation History 27 April - 3 May

April 26, 2009 9:47 pm

Hello Folks, yeah seven more down and dirty. To be honest, I’ve spent a very busy day on the Message Board I moderate on the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum Website, and I’m suffering from ODD (Ocular-digital Disorder) this shows up when I get tired and what it is is my eyes see one thing and my fingers type another. It could get ugly, so let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?

Have an AB FAN week,

Take Care and Be Safe,

Tom K,

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May 1909
The first aerial navigational chart is published. It is a 5-color chart showing routes out of Paris by Cartes Guides Campbell.

30 April 1910
Alberto Santos-Dumont retires from flying, suffering from multiple sclerosis.

May 1911
A Belgian female pilot, Helene Dutrieu, wins the Coppa del Re (Kings Cup) after beating 14 male rivals.

27 April 1912
The first passenger flight in Central America is piloted by Bob Fowler. En Route in the floatplane Raymond Duhem makes the first aerial film of Central America.

30 April 1915
German Navy Zeppelin L9, commanded by Kapitaltn Mathys, makes an attack on three British submarines, damaging the conning tower of one of them.

May 1915
The first Canadian flying school, the Curtiss Aviation School, opens at Long Branch.

1 May 1916
The German Schutte-Lanz airship crashes near Gotland.

May 1917
Fast and well-armed Spad XIII single-seat fighters enter service with French squadrons on the Western Front.

The first Airmail stamps are issued by the Italian Post Office. 200,000 25c Express Letter stamps were overprinted ‘Esperimento Posta Aerea - Maggio 1917 - Torino-Roma-Roma-Torino’

29 April 1918
Captain Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, who would later become America’s top ace of the First World War, with 26 victories, claims his first victory, an Albatros Scout.

May 1919
Two Italian ex-military SCA M-class semi-rigid airships are used to inaugurate a passenger and mail service between Rome and Naples.

2-3 May 1923
Lieutenant O.G. Kelly and Lieutenant J.A. Macready of the United States Army Air Service (USAAS) make the first non-stop flight across the United States. Flying a Fokker T2, the journey time is 26 hours 50 minutes. They leave Roosevelt Field, Long Island and land at Rockwell Field in California.

1 May 1925
The Imperial Japanese Army Air Corps is formed.

2 May 1935
France concludes an alliance with the Soviet Union.

May 1941
The Soviet Union brings RUS-1 and RUS-2 air defense radar sets into service.

1 May 1944
A major allied offensive against the rail transportation system in Europe begins

28 April 1945
Benito Mussolini is captured at Dongo, near Lake Como and is shot by Italian Communist partisans.

29 April 1945
The war in Italy comes to an end with German envoys signing terms of unconditional surrender.

30 April 1945
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide in the air raid bunker beneath the German Chancellery in Berlin.

1 May 1949
The Air Arm, Hong Kong Defense Force is established with Royal Air Force (RAF) assistance. It adopts the title Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force in 1970.

29 April 1952
An Air France airliner is attacked by Russian jet fighters near Koennern in the Frankfurt-Berlin international air corridor.

1 May 1952
Pan American World Airways inaugurates its Rainbow tourist fare services to Europe with Douglas DC6 airliners.

30 April 1953
A civil aviation agreement is signed between Denmark and South Africa.

A Polish pilot who landed on Bornholm Island leaves Britain for the United States.

29 April 1954
The Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation becomes the Convair Division of the General Dynamics Corporations.

1 May 1954
The first United States Air Force (USAF) airborne Early Warning and Control Division is formed and equipped with Lockheed R121 Constellation aircraft for radar surveillance.

28 April 1956
United States Military Assistance Advisory Group begins work in South Vietnam.

30 May 1957
The United States Air Force (USAF) discloses the development of the Hughes Falcon air-to-air guided missile armed with a nuclear warhead.

28 April 1961
The Soviet Union regains the world altitude record when Colonel G. Mossolov, flying a Mikoyan Ye 66A, reaches 34,714 meters (118,898 feet).

30 April 1962
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) pilot Joe Walker takes the North American X-15A to a new altitude record of 75,195 meters (246,700 feet).

30 April - 12 May 1963
American Betty Miller makes the first transpacific solo flight by a woman. The 4-stop flight is from Oakland in California to Brisbane in Australia.

1 May 1963
Jacqueline Cochran, flying a Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter sets a new 100 kilometer closed circuit world speed record for women of 1,937kph (1,203mph).

1 May 1965
Colonel R.L. Stevens, flying a Lockheed YF-12A establishes a new world speed record of 3,331kph (2,070mph).

30 April 1975
The last United States Personnel leave Vietnam in a dramatic helicopter air lift from secured locations in Saigon. In total, 7,014 United States and South Vietnamese personnel are evacuated in the days before the North Vietnamese capture the city, ending American involvement in the Vietnam conflict.

30 April 1982
Pilatus Britten-Norman delivers its 1,000th Islander/Trislander aircraft.

30 April 1985
The Lockheed Starfighter ends all front-line service when the Danish Air Force disbands its ESK726 squadron.

May 1988
The Soviet Union begins to withdraw its armed forces from Afghanistan.

May 1992
Plans to retire the McDonnell Douglas F-4G Phantom II from American service are shelved. As a result of its success in Operation Desert Storm, it has been decided to keep the F-4G in service in the anti-aircraft radar countermeasures role with the United States Air Force (USAF) for several more years.

28 April 1997
The first five production V-22 Osprey tiltrotors are delivered by Bell Boeing for use by the United States Marines.

28 April 2000
Lockheed Martin delivers the 4,000th F-16 aircraft. The F-16C is delivered to the Egyptian Air Force as part of an order of 21 machines.

30 April 2001
The Pentagon appointed panel investigating the V-22 Osprey program publishes its recommendation that it should not be abandoned, although extensive redesign and repair work is required to return it to flight. With a disastrous safety record of 23 deaths in 4 crashes, the fleet had been grounded since December.

May 2001
United States Marine Corps (USMC) Commandant General James L. Jones reaffirms support for the V-22 Osprey Tiltrotor aircraft, saying it remains the program of choice for the USMC. The V-22 program faces cancellation by the Government.

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That’s it for this week, Folks. See ya in seven

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Today In Military/Aviation History 20 - 26 April

April 19, 2009 10:03 pm

Well Folks, as you may have noticed, there was no History post from me last week. That was because my CPU was in the shop and when I tried to use my better half’s computer to post here, I forgot my username and couldn’t get in to post. BAH! Up until then it had been an “automatic” log in with my username and password automatically filled in so all I had to do was hit the login button. Just another example of “don’t get too comfortable with computers and pitbulls, they’ll turn on ya in a heartbeat.” All it took for mine to go all to heck was a bad printer driver I downloaded. My operating system had to be almost fully reinstalled. Luckily my e-mail and some other stuff was saved, but I’m still finding things I had but don’t anymore. Always remember: “COMPUTERS ARE OUR FRIENDS!” Bull sh..! Well let’s get down to some serious history once again, shall we?

Have an AB FAN week,

Take Care and Be Safe,

Tom K.

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25 April 1914
Lieutenant P.N.L. Bellinger makes the first American operational sortie by aeroplane, searching for sea mines during the Santa Cruz incident. A total of five Curtiss AB flying boats are involved in the operation, flying from the battleship USS Mississippi and the cruiser USS Birmingham in an operation lasting 43 days.

20 April 1916
Escadrille Americaine, a squadron in the French Air Force composed of American volunteers, is formed and the unit is later renamed Lafayette Escadrille on 6 December.

24 April 1917
Lieutenant Colonel William ‘Billy’ Mitchell becomes the first United States army officer to over fly the German lines.

21 April 1918
Baron Manfred Von Richthofen, the ‘Red Baron’, is shot down and killed. Manfred von Richthofen was the most successful fighter pilot of the First World War and at the time of his death, he had shot down 80 Allied aircraft in air combat.

Although Captain Roy Brown of No.209 Squadron is credited with the destruction of von Richthofen’s Fokker Triplane, it has also been suggested that the Red Baron actually fell victim to ground fire whilst being pursued by Captain Brown.

21 April 1933
The first flight of new United States Navy (USN) dirigible (steerable airship) USS Macon.

26 April 1937
German aircraft of the Legion Condor, operating with Spanish Nationalist Forces, bomb Guernica, seat of the Basque government. This act becomes a symbol of the inhumanity of aerial bombing.

26 April 1939
Flugkapitän Fritz Wendel, flying Messerschmitt Me 209V1, establishes a new world top speed record of 755kph (469mph). This record will not be broken for 30 years.

25 April 1940
The USS Wasp aircraft carrier is commissioned.

22 April 1942
Assam, Burma, China Ferry Command is established to air ferry supplies into China over the Himalayas (The Hump).

23 April 1945
United States Navy Consolidated PB4Y Liberators of Patrol Bombing Squadron 109 launch two Bat missiles against Japanese shipping in Balikpapan harbour in Borneo. This is the first use of automatic homing missiles during the Second World War.

26 April 1945
Hanna Reitch, flying a Fiesler Fi156 Storch, flies General Ritter von Greim from Berlin, Gatow into Berlin. In Hitler’s underground bunker he is promoted to command the Luftwaffe in place of Hermann Göring.

24 April 1946
Winged Cargo Inc. begins operations in the USA. This glider (sailplane) commercial freight service uses Waco gliders, towed by Douglas DC3s.

26 April 1949
A flight-refueled world endurance record is completed in the United States, when Bill Barris and Dick Reidel, flying an Aeronca Chief lightplane ‘Sunkist Lady’, stay airborne for 1,008 hours 1 minute (one minute over six weeks). Fuel and food is hauled up daily from a Jeep speeding below.

20 April 1955
McDonnell XV1 experimental convertiplane makes its first transition from vertical to horizontal flight.

23 April 1959
The United States Hound Dog thermonuclear stand-off missile makes a successful first flight after launching from a Boeing B-52D Stratofortress bomber.

24 April 1959
Cathay Pacific begins service with its first Lockheed Electra.

21 April 1961
Major Robert White of the United States Air Force (USAF), pilots a North American X-15A during a full throttle flight to a speed of 4,947kph (3,074mph).

23 April 1967
The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 1, but Colonel Vladimir Komarov is killed when the spacecraft crashes on its return to earth. This is the first known man to have died in the course of a space flight.

24 April 1970
China launches its first satellite into Earth orbit, using its own nationally built rocket.

23 April 1974
Bell helicopters announces the delivery of the company’s 20,000th helicopter, 80% of which have been delivered since 1964.

20 April 1978
A Korean Airlines Boeing 707 crash lands after being strafed by a Soviet fighter jet. A Japanese and a South Korean are killed in the attack when the airliner strays off course, ending up over Soviet territory.

20 April 1979
The 16th and last Concorde makes it’s first flight.

24 April 1980
Operation Eagle Claw: an attempt to rescue American hostages held in Iran, is abandoned when a Lockheed C-130 Hercules and a Sikorsky RH-53 Sea Stallion collide at the first desert landing site.

25 April 1983
The Dornier company return to their roots when the government-backed Dornier Do 24TT technology demonstrator amphibian makes its first flight.

25 April 1987
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) receives the last of its eighteen Boeing E-3A Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft.

25 April 1992
The second Boeing YF-22 prototype suffers control problems while landing at Edwards Air Force Base and is damaged in the resulting fire. The pilot escapes with only minor injuries.

26 April 1995
A Lockheed-Martin SR-71A flies for the first time after renovation. Two SR-71As are returned to United States Air Force (USAF) service to carry out reconnaissance flights after being in storage since 1990.

A new world altitude record of 27,460 metrers (90,092 feet) for Class C1h aircraft is set by a Russian Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29.

22 April 1999
A Boeing 727 is damaged beyond repair by a heavy hail storm when landing at Johannesburg.

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Tat’s it for this week Folks. See ya in seven. (Computer willin’)

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Today In Military/Aviation History 6 - 12 April

April 5, 2009 5:17 pm

Hello Folks, another seven yadda yadda. I’ve got stuff to do tonight, so let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?

Have an AB FAN Week,

Take Care and Be Safe,

Tom K.

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11 April 1911
The United States Army flying school is established at College Park.

12 April 1911
Frenchman Pierre Prier makes the first non-stop flight from London to Paris, carrying passengers. He flies a Blériot for 3 hours 45 minutes from Hendon to Issy-les-Moulineaux in Paris.

6 April 1912
Belgian M.V. de Jonckheere demonstrates that aeroplanes can follow ships at night as he flies his monoplane in experiments at League Island in California.

9 April 1915
The first meeting of the Australian Aero Club is held at the Café Francais in Melbourne.

11 April 1915
The prototype German Zeppelin-Staaken VGO1 heavy bomber flies for the first time. This later becomes the Zeppelin-Staaken R1.

6 April 1917
The United States declares war on Germany. The United States Army Signal Corps possesses 250 aircraft and the United States Marine Corps (USMC) has a further 54.

7 April 1917
Cuba declares war on Germany.

12 April 1917
Breguet 14s are introduced into service with French squadrons on the Western Front.

12 April 1918
German Gotha bombers bombed Paris, hitting a hospital and killing a mother, baby and a nurse. Bombs also exploded in the city and northern suburbs. A further attack that night left 26 dead and 72 injured.

The Loughead brothers fly their F1 Seaplane from Santa Barbara to San Diego.

6 April 1919
Customs examination of airline passengers begins at Brussels.

7 April 1922
The first airliner collision takes place when a French Farman Goliath of Grands Express flies into the path of a de Havilland DH18 operated by Daimler Airways. The collision takes place over Poix in northern France.

12-13 April 1928
The first east-west transatlantic flight is made from Baldonnel in Dublin to Greenly Island, just off the coast of Labrador by Captain James Fitzmaurice of the Irish Free State Air Service, Captain Hermann Köhl and Baron von Hünefeld in a Junkers W33 Bremen.

11 April 1934
Commander R. Donati, flying a modified Caproni 113, establishes a new altitude record of 14,433 meters (47,352 feet) at Rome.

6-9 April 1937
Mitsubishi Type 97 (Ki125) J-BAAI ‘Kamikaze’ is flown by Masaaki Iinuma, with Kenji Tsukagoshi as his navigator, from Tashikawa to Croydon to capture the Japan to England record. The flight takes 51 hours 17minutes 23 seconds and covers a distance of 15,356 kilometers (9,542 miles).

7-9 April 1939
Italy occupies Albania.

9 April 1940
German forces overrun and occupy Denmark.

The German invasion Norway includes the use of paratroop assaults on Oslo and Stavanger.

6 April 1941
The first aircraft ejection seat, a compressed air unit, is fitted to the German Heinkel He280 jet fighter.

9 April 1941
An agreement is reached between the Danish government in exile and the United States, allowing the United States to build and operate airfields in Greenland.

6 April 1942
Japanese carrier aircraft make the first air attack on India.

12 April 1942
United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and North American B-25 Mitchells based in Australia make the first attack against Japanese shipping and installations in the Philippines.

7 April 1945
The 71,000 ton Japanese battleship ‘Yamato’, a cruiser, and four of eight destroyers are sunk by endless air attacks from United States Navy (USN) carrier aircraft as they fruitlessly attempt to disrupt the United States landings on Okinawa.

United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Boeing B-29s receive fighter escort for all future missions against the Japanese Home Islands.

10 April 1945
The last wartime sortie over the United Kingdom is made by an Arado Ar 234B reconnaissance aircraft operating from Norway.

In an attack on targets in the Berlin area the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) loses 19 bombers and 8 fighters to German Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighters.

12 April 1945
The destroyer USS Mannert L. Abele is sunk by a Japanese Ohka suicide aircraft off Okinawa.

8 April 1950
Russian fighters shoot down an unarmed United States Navy (USN) aircraft over the Baltic, killing ten airmen.

11 April 1952
No.14 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF), equipped with de Havilland Vampire jet fighters, will be stationed with British forces in the Middle East area.

11 April 1955
An Indian Constellation airliner is brought down by a bomb on board with the loss of fifteen lives.

12 April 1957
The United States announces that the Ryan X-13 Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft has completed a full transition.

6 April 1959
It is announced in the United States that seven pilots have been selected from the nation’s armed services for training as space vehicle pilots.

12 April 1961
The Soviet Union launches Vostok 1 into earth orbit from Baikonur in Western Siberia and Flight Major Yuri Alexeyvich Gagarin becomes the first man in space. He lands successfully after one orbit of the Earth. The flight time is 1 hour 48 minutes.

6 April 1965
The Hughes Early Bird I communications satellite is launched into geo-stationary earth orbit. It becomes operational on 28 June and is the world’s first commercial satellite for public telephone calls.

11-17 April 1970
Apollo 13 suffers an oxygen tank explosion during the outward flight of an attempt to land on the Moon. The resulting emergency is resolved through brilliant improvisation and returns Astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise to Earth.

6 April 1971
Dutch airline KLM inaugurates a trans-Siberian service with aircraft leased from the Russian state airline, Aeroflot.

6 April 1978
Eastern Airlines orders 25 Airbus A300B4 airliners.

12 April 1981
Space Shuttle Columbia is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral for its first mission.

6 April 1986
Lufthansa flies its restored pre-Second World War Junkers Ju52/3m transport and the aircraft receives passenger-carrying certification on 6 June.

9 April 1996
The EMD Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is rolled out.

9 April 1997
The first production Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22A Raptor is rolled out.

7 April 1998
McDonnell Douglas AH-64D Longbow Apache attack helicopters are ordered by the Dutch Government.

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That’s it for this week Folks. See ya in seven.

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New Aviation Themed Steak House in Wichita

8:15 am

WIX User Green Goggles reports in:

“Hangar One Steakhouse had its grand opening Friday April 3rd. Since I like airplanes and I needed to get out of town, I drove up to check things out on Saturday. The entire places is aviation themed from the tables to the restrooms, from the bar to the menu. B-17 Bomber Burgers, KC “Landing” Strip, T-6 Texan T-Bone, B-24 Lobster Tail Guns, Mach 1 Mac & Cheese, etc.

Overall, it was a really decent place. The food was not the best thing to ever touch my lips, but it was very good. Wait times were high and things were a bit chaotic and disorganized, but I think that was mostly due to the busyness of the establishment’s first weekend. In time, I am sure they will get things running smoothly.
The view from the bar upstairs overlooks Wichita Mid-Continent Airport (ICT) and it is a very, very cool view.”

Thanks GG for letting us know about this interesting place. For more pictures check out Green Goggles original thread on WIX.

FMI: Hanger One Steak House

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Today In Military/Aviation History 30 March - 5 April

March 30, 2009 12:05 am

He’s Baaaack! Yep, yet another seven are gone. Soon there will be another month gone too. Where does this time go? I’ve spent quite a busy day on this thing today, so with your indulgence, let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?

Have an AB FAN week,

Take Care and Be Safe,

Tom K.

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5 April 1907
Louis Blériot makes a brief flight in his Type V monoplane.

April 1910
The French Army forms a ‘Service Aéronautique’.

Two Japanese army officers, Captain Tokugawa and Humazo Hino, are sent to France and Germany respectively to learn to fly.

3 April 1912
American Calbriath P. Rodgers dies when he crashes into the Pacific during a Long Beach air show.

3 April 1913
The second competition for seaplanes is held in Monaco.

April 1914
The Fokker M5k is developed and becomes the prototype for the famous Fokker EIII Eindecker fighter monoplane.

The battleship USS Mississippi and the cruiser USS Birmingham become the first aircraft carriers to be used in warfare. They operate off Vera Cruz with five United States Navy (USN) seaplanes making reconnaissance flights over Mexican lines. The seaplanes are lowered over the side and take-off and land on the water.

1 April 1915
Lieutenant Roland Garros shoots down a German Albatros two-seater with the Hotchkiss machine-gun fitted to his Morane-Saulnier Type L monoplane. Steel wedge deflectors allow the bullets to pass through the propeller arc without damaging the propeller.

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