Compilation of Today in Aerospace History: 16 May 1992 - STS-49, maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour lands at Edwards AFB. 16 May 1992 – The 2,000th Lockheed C-130 Hercules four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft rolls off the production line. 16 May 1992 - Munich-Riem Airport is closed down. Operations moved to the new location near Freising of Munich Franz Josef Strauss Airport. 16 May 1986 - The movie Top gun opened in the USA Some great flight footage spoiled by the storyline 16 May 1979 – New York Airways Sikorsky S-61 tips over at the Pan Am Building in NY City, killing five. The heliport is permanently closed 16 May 1968 – BOAC Super Vickers VC10 makes the airline’s first fully automatic approach and landing in London. 16 May 1967 - Death of John F Taylor, British aircraft designer, killed in the crash of the Taylor Titch prototype. 16 May 1961 - First flight of Mikoyan/Gurevich Ye-152/1, Soviet single-seat fighter/interceptor aircraft. 16 May 1959 – Newly-formed RCAF aerobatic team, the Golden Hawks, flying gold-finished North American F-86 Sabre, performed its first demo 16 May 1958 – Capt Walter W. Irwin sets airspeed record of 1,404 mph (2,259 km/h) in a F-104 Starfighter, the first record over 2,000 km/h 16 May 1957 – First flight Saunders-Roe SR.53 British prototype interceptor aircraft of mixed jet and rocket propulsion developed for RAF 16 May 1953 - First flight production version Hunter F.1 subsonic British jet aircraft with Avon 113 engine 16 May 1951 - First flight LWD Żuraw (Crane) Polish high-wing monoplane single engine prototype utility and liaison aircraft 16 May 1943 – Launch of Operation Chastise, attack on German dams by RAF No. 617 Squadron (Dambusters), using Wallis bouncing bombs 16 May 1942 – Canadian Pacific Airlines was formed. 16 May 1930 – First flight Blériot Bl-110 Joseph Le Brix French high wing single engine monoplane prototype designed for endurance records 16 May 1929 - First flight Fairey Fleetwing British 2-seat, single-engine biplane for Air Ministry contract for carrier-based reconnaissance 16 May 1929 - Wings, a silent film about WWI fighter pilots, is first film, & only silent film ever, to win Academy Award for Best Picture 16 May 1928 - E.R.C. Scholefield, Vickers Chief Test Pilot killed in crash Vickers Vanguard G-EBCP during test flight 16 May 1924 - First Outdoor tethered flights of the Brennan Helicopter, with Louis Brennan, English aviation pioneer, at controls 16 May 1919 - First transatlantic flight is made (in 2 stages) by U.S. Navys Curtis N-4 seaplane flown by Lt. Cdr. A. C. Read and his crew 16 May 1918 – Imperial German Navy recommissions the light cruiser Stuttgart after her conversion into a seaplane carrier
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