Compilation of Today in Aerospace History: 6 June 2003 - First - TopicsExpress



          

Compilation of Today in Aerospace History: 6 June 2003 - First flight Rolladen-Schneider LS10 German 18 metre sailplane prototype Further developed by DG Flugzeugbau before production 6 June 1967 – First US transcontinental carrier-to-carrier jet flight: USS Bonhomme Richard in Pacific to Saratoga in Atlantic in Vought F8U 6 June 1964 – Collections of Canadian War Museum, National Aviation Museum & RCAF displayed together as National Aeronautical Collection. 6 June 1964 – Silver City Airline airlifted its 1 millionth car between England & continental Europe by Bristol Freighters/Super Freighters. 6 June 1955 - First flight Fuji LM-1 Nikko Japanese light communications aircraft developed from Beech T-34 Mentor 2-seat training aircraft 6 June 1944 – Huge airborne armada, nine planes wide & 200 miles long, carries Allied troops across the British Channel for D-Day invasion 5 June 1942 – The first nylon parachute jump made in the US by Adeline Gray, a parachute rigger at the Pioneer Parachute Company 6 June 1936 – Aviation gasoline first produced commercially Paulsboro NJ. 6 June 1935 - First flight Fairey Fantôme British fighter prototype Three production aircraft were assembled in Belgium by Avions Fairey. 6 June 1931 – Barker Field was opened at Toronto by Mrs. W. G. Barker and L/Col W. A. Bishop. 6 June 1927 – Canadian innovator Wallace Turnbull sells the patent of the variable-pitch propeller to Curtiss-Wright in USA & Bristol in UK 6 June 1918 - First operational sorties mounted by newly formed RAF: 10 x de Havilland DH4s attacked Coblenz; 5 x DH9s attack Thionville. 6 June 1917 – First flight Sopwith Cuckoo British torpedo bomber biplane The world’s first landplane designed for use as a torpedo bomber 6 June 1915 – LZ 37 becomes the first Zeppelin destroyed in air-to-air combat when it is bombed by Flt Sub-Lt Reginald Warneford, RNAS. 6 June 1910 – Robert Martinet wins the first cross-country air race, between Angers and Saumur, France (27 miles in 31 min 35s), in a Farman 6 June 1905 – Gabriel Voisin flies along the River Seine in his float-glider towed by a motorboat.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:23:56 +0000

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