Warbirds Online » Blog Archive » This Week In Military/Aviation History 14-20 June

Hello Folks, yep, here I am again, That must mean another seven days are gone that we can’t ever get back. Darn, that was fast. I hope your week went well. A bit more work was done on the A-20 being reassembled in Geneseo. The engine cowlings have been installed. I don’t know why, but because the cowlings are on, it looks more like an aircraft to me. This aircraft will be on display in the hanger for all to see during the airshow for which aircraft arrival day is only 27 short days away. I will, (God willing), of course, be there promoting the Website Message Board and signing up new members. Hope to see you Folks there. Well, i think it’s about time we take our weekly trip down History Lane, shall we? Yes, once again, I think should and we shall.

Tom K.

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20 June 1909
Zeppelin LZ3 is delivered to the German Army.

17 June 1910
The Vlaicu I parasol monoplane makes it’s first flight in Romania.

Zeppelin LZ7 ‘Deutschland’ begins passenger services in Germany.

18 June 1911
The Circuit of Europe air race starts in Paris.

17 June 1912
Julie Clark becomes the first American woman to be killed flying when she hits a tree at Springfield in Illinois.

18 June 1916
Oberleutnant Max Immelman ,’The Eagle of Lille’, is killed in combat with 2nd Lieutenant G.R. McCubbin of No.25 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps (RFC).

H.Clyde Balsley of the Lafayette Escadrille, becomes the first American pilot to be shot down, but although wounded, he survives the engagement.

14 June 1917
Zeppelin LZ92 (L43) is shot down by British aircraft over the North Sea.

16 June 1917
93 civilian mechanics sail from the United States for England to study the British and French aviation industries.

17 June 1917
Zeppelin LZ95 (L48) is shot down by British aircraft over Suffolk in England by British aircraft.

Zeppelin LZ28 (L40) is wrecked at Neuenwald in Germany.

16 June 1922
Henry A. Berliner demonstrates his helicopter at College Park in Maryland.

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

19 June 1931
The Canadian opera singer Lissaint Beardmore uses a Professor glider (sailplane) to make the first cross-Channel glider flight from Lympne in Kent to St. Inglevert near Boulogne.

20 June 1939
The first flight of the Heinkel He176 is piloted by Flugkapitän Erich Warsitz at Peenemünde in Germany. This is the first flight of a manned, specifically designed rocket-powered aircraft.

20 June 1941
The United States Army Air Force (USAAF) is formed with Major General H.H. Arnold as its Chief.

18 June 1942
Major General Carl Spaatz is appointed to command the 8th United States Army Air Force (USAAF) in the United Kingdom.

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 B-29 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.

18-19 June 1948
All road traffic between Berlin and West Germany is halted by Soviet military authorities.

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

17 June 1951
United States Air Force (USAF) Superfortresses bomb Pyongyang and Sariwon airfields. Air fighting between USAF North American Sabre jet fighters and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s results in one enemy aircraft being shot down.

18 June 1951
An agreement is signed between the United States and Saudi Arabia giving the United States special rights to use Dharan airfield on the Persian Gulf for the next 5 years.

In air fighting over Korea between Sabre and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 aircraft, five North Korean aircraft are destroyed.

20 June 1951
North Korea loses ten planes, including four Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s, in air fighting over North West Korea.

16 June 1952
Russian Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 jet fighters attack a Swedish Consolidated Catalina amphibian.

17 June 1952
The world’s largest non-rigid airship (ZPN1) is delivered by the Goodyear Aircraft Company to the United States Navy (USN).

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

18 June 1953
The world’s first air disaster involving more than 100 deaths occurs when a United States Air Force C-124 Globemaster II crashes after take-off in Japan.

20 June 1956
The United States Navy (USN) commissions its first helicopter assault carrier, the USS Thetis Bay.

16 June 1963
The launch of the second Soviet spacecraft in two days. Vostok 6 carries the first woman into space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who makes 48 orbits of the earth.

17 June 1967
The Chinese People’s Republic detonates its first thermonuclear device.

17 June 1977
The Soviet Union’s Cosmos 918 satellite is launched and intercepts the Cosmos 909 target, which was launched on 19 May.

20 June 1980
Beech Aircraft return to the commuter airliner market with the first flight of their C99 aircraft.

15 June 1981
The Pakistani Foreign Minister announces the purchase of General Dynamics F-16s for the national air force.

18 June 1983
The Space Shuttle Challenger launches on a mission that will see the first satellite retrieval and the first American woman in space. Dr Sally Ride, aged 32, is also the youngest United States astronaut to date.

20 June 2004
Frontier Airlines begins service to Nashville, Tennessee.

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

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