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Hello Folks, well, for the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum this is the “Big Week.” Right now the “Olde Aerodrome Days” Biplane Rally going on which features a re-enactment of the Commemoration of the first regularly scheduled U.S. Air Mail. This rally segues into this weekend which is the Geneseo Airshow “The Greatest Show on Turf” this year featuring “Flying Tigers Reunion” with a P-40 Gathering. On Air Show Saturday Night, the “USO Memories Show” will be held on the grounds. Dancing to the Big Band sound of 78 RPM will highlight this show. Three events all in one week. For details, refer to our website at www.1941hag.org. Hopefully, this week we will make some Air Show history, but for now let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?
Take Care and Be Safe,
Tom K.;)
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8 July 1908
A Frenchwoman Madame Thérèse Peltier becomes the first woman to fly as a passenger in an aeroplane when she is taken up by Léon Delagrange in a Voisin biplane.

7 July 1910
The Belgian war ministry establishes a flying corps.

10 July 1910
The first flight at an altitude of over a mile is made by Walter Brookins, flying at 1,900 metres (6,234 feet) in a Wright biplane in Indianapolis, USA.

13 July 1910
A German Erbslon non-rigid airship explodes near Opladen, killing five people.

7 July 1911
Lieutenant de Vaisseau Conneau wins the Circuit of Europe air race in a Blériot monoplane.

7 July 1914
Dr Robert H. Goddard receives a United States patent for a two-stage rocket with solid fuel propellant.

7 July 1917
A large formation of Gotha and Friedrichshafen bombers attacks London, leaving 57 dead and many injured.

10 July 1918
Leutnant F. Rumey is awarded the Pour le Mérite.

7 July 1937
Following clashes with Chinese troops at Lukouchiao near Peiping, Japan initiates a full scale invasion of China.

12-14 July 1937
Soviet ANT-25 (RD-2) Colonel M.M. Gromov, Commandant A.B. Yumashev and Ing S.A. Danilin establish a new distance record for the Soviet Union. The flight covers a total distance of 10,148 kilometers (6,306 miles) from Moscow to San Jacinto in California via the North Pole.

11 July 1938
Germany’s Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG becomes Messerschmitt AG. All existing aircraft designs retain the Bf prefix, for example, Messerschmitt Bf109, but all new projects are prefixed Me.

8 July 1940
The first airliner with a pressurized cabin, the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, enters service with Transcontinental Airways on the New York to Burbank in California route.

10 July 1945
The final United States aircraft carrier operations begin against targets on the Japanese home islands.

11 July 1945
The United States announces the transfer of the 8th United States Army Air Force (USAAF) via the United States to the Far East.

13/14 July 1945
The Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces is disbanded at midnight.

7 July 1953
A Sikorsky S-55 makes the first international helicopter flight into central London.

9-28 July 1960
Following the granting of independence to the Belgian Congo the Belgian state airline Sabena begins to airlift 25,711 Belgian nationals back to Europe.

10 July 1962
The Telstar 1 communications satellite is placed in earth orbit. The first transatlantic exchanges of television programs are now possible.

12 July 1966
The Northrop/NASA M2F2 lifting-body research aircraft makes its first un-powered flight after being dropped from a Boeing B-52 ‘motherplane’.

7 July 1978
Development of the Airbus A310 is announced.

13 July 1979
The McDonnell Douglas DC10 is re-cleared for flight, after being grounded on 25 May following an accident.

8 July 1983
General Dynamics completes its 1,000th F-16 aircraft at the company’s Fort Worth factory.
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That’s it for this week Folks. See Ya in seven.

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