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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of The Lockheed YF-12A Interceptor

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On August 7, 1963, the first Lockheed YF-12A interceptor, sn/ 60-6934, took off from a top-secret air base at Groom Lake, Nevada, on its first flight. Lockheed test pilot James D. Eastham was at the […]

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Today in Aviation History – Agello Sets World’s Speed Record

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On April, 10 1933 at Lago di Garda, Brescia, Italy, Warrant Officer Francesco Agello, Regia Aeronautica, flew the Macchi-Castoldi M.C. 72, MM 177, the first of five float planes in the series, over a 3-kilometer […]

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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of The XP-38 Lightning

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by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On January 27, 1939, First Lieutenant Benjamin Scovill Kelsey, Air Corps, United States Army, made the first flight of the prototype Lockheed XP-38 Lightning, serial number […]

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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of The Lockheed Constellation

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by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On January 9, 1943, at the controls of the United States Army Air Forces, Boeing’s Chief Test Pilot, Eddie Allen, made the first flight of the […]

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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of The Avro Lancaster

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by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On January 9, 1941 test pilot Captain Harry Albert (“Sam”) Brown, O.B.E., (1896–1953) made the first flight of the Avro Lancaster prototype, BT308, at RAF Ringway, […]

Today in Aviation History – First Flight of The Convair XB-58

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by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On November 11, 1956, in Fort Worth, Texas, Convair’s Chief Test Pilot, Beryl Arthur Erickson, takes the first prototype XB-58, serial number 55-0660, on its first […]

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Today in Aviation History – Jimmy Doolittle Wins The Schneider Trophy

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by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 26, 1925, Lieutenant James Harold Doolittle, Air Service, United States Army, won the Coupe d’Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider (commonly called the Schneider Trophy) when […]

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Today in Aviation History – First Flight of The Bell Model 204

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by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 20, 1956, Bell Aircraft Corporation Chief Pilot Floyd W. Carlson and Chief Experimental Test Pilot Elton J. Smith made the first flight of the […]

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Today in Aviation History – Chuck Yeager Breaks The Sound Barrier

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by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 14, 1947, at approximately 10:00 a.m., a four-engine Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber, piloted by Major Robert L. Cardenas, took off from Muroc Air […]

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Today in Aviation History – Chuck Yeager Becomes Ace In a Day

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by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 12, 1944, First Lieutenant Charles Elwood Yeager, Air Corps, Army of the United States (A.U.S.), shot down five Bf 109s in one sortie becoming “ace […]

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