Compilation of 28 May in Aerospace History: 28 May 2010 – First Solar Impulse aircraft, HB-SIA, makes its first flight powered entirely by solar energy charging its batteries in flight 28 May 1999 - Caroline Aigle becomes the first woman to receive the French Air Forces coveted fighter pilot wings 28 May 1997 – Linda Finch, flying a restored & specially equipped 62-year-old Lockheed Electra 10E, recreated the 1937 Amelia Earhart flight 28 May 1989 – First flight AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo Taiwanese air superiority jet fighter with multirole capability 28 May 1987 – Mathias Rust flew illegally into Soviet airspace in a Cessna 172 and landed in Moscows Red Square. 28 May 1982 – No. 410 Squadron RCAF became first CF Voodoo squadron to disband. 28 May 1981 - First flight Yakovlev Yak-55 Soviet single seat aerobatic aircraft. Yak-55s have won several world aerobatic championships 28 May 1971 – First flight Dassault Mercure French twin-engined jet-powered airliner First production flight in 1973 It last flew in 1995 28 May 1970 - First flight Meridionali/Agusta EMA 124 Italian light utility helicopter, based on the Bell 47 28 May 1969 – First flight Saunders ST-27 Canadian regional airliner Designed as a conversion of the earlier de Havilland Heron 28 May 1959 – Twenty-five ex-RCAF Beech Expeditors flew across the Atlantic under the Military Assistance Program, to Portugal and France 28 May 1959 - US Army launched Able, a rhesus monkey, & Baker, a squirrel monkey, aboard Jupiter missile for suborbital flight Both survived 28 May 1948 – Royal Netherlands Navy commissions first fleet aircraft carrier, HNLMS Karel Doorman, formerly British Navys HMS Venerable 28 May 1948 - Flt Lt B. Bastable DFC, A&AEE TP & Miss B.R. Edmunds FTO killed in handling assessment flight crash Miles Marathon G-AGPD 28 May 1947 – British South American Airways trials non-stop flights from London to Bermuda using aerial refuelling over the Azores. 28 May 1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication 28 May 1931 – A Bellanca with a Packard DR-980 diesel engine flew for 84 hours, 32 minutes without landing for fuel setting a record. 28 May 1930 - First flight Blackburn B-1 Segrave British twin-engine four-seat monoplane touring aircraft designed by Sir Henry Segrave 28 May 1920 – The first Lewis & Vought VE-7 (Vought Experimental No.7) is delivered to the U. S. Navy. 28 May 1916 – First Flight of the Sopwith Triplane British single seat fighter aircraft triplane, flown by Harry Hawker 28 May 1914 – Glenn Curtiss successfully flies the refurbished Langley Aerodrome for a distance of approximately 150 ft. at Keuka Lake, NY
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