Aviation Historical anniversaries. What happened today in aviation from 1903 untill 2013.
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On February 17, 1956, test pilot Herman Richard (“Fish”) Salmon made the first flight of the Lockheed YF-104A service test prototype, Air Force serial number 55-2955 […]
On February 9, 1969, at 11:34 a.m., Boeing Chief Test Pilot Jack Wadell, with Engineering Test Pilots Brien Singleton Wygle, co-pilot, and Jesse Arthur Wallick, flight engineer, took off from Paine Field, Everett, Washington, aboard […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On November 1, 1954, the United States Air Force begins to retire the Boeing B-29 Superfortress from service. In the above photograph, B-29A-20-BN 42-94012 is at […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 24, 2003, at 4:05 p.m. BST, the final commercial flight of the British Airways Concorde came to an end with the landing of G-BOAG […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 24, 1953, at Edwards Air Force Base, California, Richard Lowe Johnson, Chief Test Pilot for the Convair Division of the General Dynamics Corporation, took […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 21, 1947, at Northrop Field, Hawthorne, California, Northrop Corporation Chief Test Pilot Max R. Stanley took off in the first YB-49, 42-102367, and flew […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 7, 1963, the first of two Learjet 23 prototypes, made its first flight at Wichita, Kansas, with test pilots Henry Grady (“Hank”) Beaird, Jr., […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 1, 1947, after three years of development in which 801,386 engineering hours and 340,594 drafting hours had been expended, the first prototype North American […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On September 29, 1954, at Edwards Air Force Base in the high desert of southern California, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation test pilot Robert C. Little made the […]
Today marks the 68th anniversary of the Lockheed YC-130’s maiden flight. While some may not consider the mighty Hercules a ‘warbird’ yet (the type is still in production and operating in large numbers with air […]
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