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Hello Folks, Geez, talk about a case of CRS (Can’t remember Stuff). Would you believe I forgot to publish last week’s post until I went to work on this one? What a yutz! Sorry. Well Folks, New York finally made me do something that all kinds of other stuff failed to make me. And that is quit smoking! Yep, I’ve got three pre-tax cigarettes left, and when they’re gone…that’s it. I guess I’m really ready now because I, no matter how hard I try, cannot justify the expense. I guess that was the idea in the first place. Can’t go to the reservation. Can’t justify the gas expense. I now have to pay sales tax on what I buy on the Internet. I have more important things to buy anyway. Overpriced food, medications and power bills. I’m on a budget for the power, but I know I’m gonna get crushed on the last payment. It happened last year. I’m told by stuff I get in the mail that my Social Security is in danger of going away because of a multitude of reasons, none of them good. It’s no wonder I can’t sleep at night. I hope your situation is a lot better. Have a great week, and let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?
Take Care and Be Safe,
Tom K.

10 June 1908
The Aeronautical Society of New York, the first flying club, opens with facilities at Morris Park Racetrack.

12 June 1909
The Blériot Type XII becomes the first aeroplane to carry two passengers (Santos-Dumont and Fournier) at Issy-les-Moulineaux in France.

9 June 1910
The first aircraft reconnaissance is made by Captain Marconnet and Lieutenant Fequant of the French Army. They used a single seat Henri Farman biplane on a 2½ hour, 145 kilometer flight from Camp de Châlons at Mourmelon to Vincennes. Fequart piloted the aircraft while Marconnet, armed with a hand held camera, squeezed into a narrow space between the seat and the engine. During the flight, photographs were taken of roads, railways, towns and the countryside.

10 June 1910
The French Army obtain a Wright biplane.

13 June 1910
Charles Hamilton wins the New York Times’ $10,000 prize for a return flight between New York and Philadelphia.

10 June 1912
The first German airmail is flown by airships ‘Schwaben’ and ‘Gelber Hund’ from Darmstadt to Frankfurt/Main.

10 June 1913
The longest flight between sunrise and sunset wins Marcel Brindejonc des Moulinais the Pommeroy cup. He flies 900 miles from Paris to Warsaw.

13 June 1917
Fourteen Gotha bombers execute the first large-scale daylight bombing raid on London, leaving 162 dead and 432 injured. These casualties represent nearly 20% of all those caused in Britain by aeroplanes between 1914 and 1918.

Hauptmann Ernst von Brandenburg, the leader of the mass Gotha raids, wins the Pour le Mérite.

14 June 1917
Leutnant Karl Allmenroder, who honed his skills as a combat pilot under Manfred von Richthofen in Jasta 11, is awarded the Pour le Mérite. He scores 30 air combat victories during the First World War.

Zeppelin LZ92 (L43) is shot down by British aircraft over the North Sea.

12 June 1918
American aircraft of the 96th Aero Squadron carry out the first bombing raid by US aircraft on the Western Front, attacking the railway yards at Dommany-Baroncourt.

12 June 1919
Baroness Raymonde de Laroche breaks the women’s altitude record by flying to a height of 16,896 feet.

14 June 1919
The French Nieuport-Delage 29 Biplane fighter attains an altitude of more than 9,100 meters (29,850 feet) and is ordered into production. Eventually 25 squadrons fly the type, while a large number of aircraft serve in Belgium, Italy and Japan.

9 June 1922
The first airliner night flight is made by Grands Express, from Le Bourget in France to Croydon.

14 June 1923
The New Zealand Permanent Air Force is formed.

11 June 1926
The first flight of the Ford 4AT Tri-motor.

11 June 1928
The Ente sailpane is fitted with two Sanders solid fuel rocket motors and becomes the first rocket powered aircraft to fly. The flight of 1.2 kilometers (0.75 miles) is undertaken by Friedrich Stamer at Wasserkuppe Mountain in Germany.

12 June 1942
Twelve United States Air Force (USAF) Consolidated B24 Liberator bombers make an unsuccessful attack on the Romanian oil refineries at Ploesti.

11 June 1943
The Italian garrison on the island of Pantellaria surrenders after an intensive air bombardment by allied aircraft. This is the first time that a large defended area has been conquered by air power alone.

10 June 1944
Allied aircraft begin to operate from airstrips in the Normandy beachhead.

11 June 1944
United States Navy (USN) Task Force 58, comprising seven heavy and eight light carriers, is assembled and begins the opening phase of the Mariana Island campaign.

13 June 1944
The first German V1 to be launched against British targets falls at Swanscombe near Gravesend and a few minutes later, another drops at Cuckfield in Essex.

15 June 1944
With massive air support from Task Force 58 carrier aircraft, United States forces begin landings on Saipan in the Mariana Islands.

15-16 June 1944
Boeing B29 Superfortress aircraft of the 20th United States Army Air Force (USAAF) carry out their first raid against Japan from airfields near Chengtu in China. The raid is a night attack on the iron and steel mills at Yawata, Kyushu.

11 June 1945
Boeing B29s of the 393rd Very Heavy Bomber Squadron, the only combat aircraft of the 509th Composite Group, land at Tinian in Marianas.

12 June 1951
The 16th Independent Parachute Brigade Group arrive in Cyprus using the aircraft carriers Warrior and Triumph.

15 June - 1 July 1951
The 19th International Air Exhibition is held in Paris.

11-14 June 1953
A Chinese offensive in Korea.

14 June 1953
Communist aircraft bomb Kimpo and Inchon near Seoul.

9 June 1955
Plans for the production of the Electra, a propeller-turbine airliner, are announced by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.

10-19 June 1955
The 21st Salon International de l’Aéronautique is held at Le Bourget airport near Paris.

9 June 1959
A submarine armed with Polaris ballistic missiles, the USS George Washington, is launched at Groton in Connecticut.

10 June 1977
The first operational Republic A10 Thunderbolt aircraft is delivered to the United States Air Force (USAF).

13 June 1977
United States President Jimmy Carter gives permission to British Airline entrepreneur Freddie Laker for the trial of a low cost airline ‘Skytrain’ service across the North Atlantic.

12 June 1979
The Gossamer Albatross, designed and built by Dr Paul MacCready, wins the £100,000 Kremer prize for a first crossing of the English Channel by a man powered craft.

15 June 1981
The Pakistani Foreign Minister announces the purchase of General Dynamics F16s for the national air force.

13 June 1983
The first spacecraft to travel beyond the solar system: the Pioneer, a 10,570 pound United States space probe travelling at 30,000mph and due to reach first star beyond solar system 32,621 years after launch in 1972, crosses the orbit of Neptune on its way out of Solar System.

11 June 1999
A new company, Aerospatiale Matra, has been formed in France. It is the second largest aerospace company in Europe and the 5th largest in the world.
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That’s it for this week, Folks. See ya in seven.

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