French engineer, Henri Giffard, flies the 1st powered, manned airship. Powered by a steam engine and propeller, the airship flies at about 5-mph and covers 17 miles from Paris to Trappes, France. The craft marks the beginning of the practical airship.
Earle Lewis Ovington carries the first US AirMail in a Bleriot XI from Garden City to Mineola, New York. 640 letters and 1,280 postcards in a sack were tossed over the side as he flew over Mineola. The sack burst on impact scattering the mail.
The Learjet 45, built by Bombardier received FAA certification.
Frenchman Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the 1st parachute descent in England, jumping from a balloon over London.
Wilbur Wright flies the first complete circle in an airplane.
The first piloted helicopter rises above the ground. It attains an altitude of 2 feet. Piloted by Volumard in Douai, France.
The 1st flight of a delta-wing jet airplane is made with the Convair XF-92A.
The North American X-15 rocket plane makes its 1st powered flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Carried aloft by a B-52, a single rocket engine generated 57,000 pounds of thrust.
In 1967 on it’s 188th flight, the X-15 piloted by Pete Knight reached a top speed of 4,159 mph, a record that still stands to this day. Astronaut Neil Armstrong flew the X-15 in 1962.
The Canadian Aviation Corps is authorized by the Minister of Militia and Defence to be formed. This is the beginning of Canada’s military air force. The Corps consists of 2 pilots and a mechanic. The aircraft, a Burgess-Dunne, never sees military service and the Corps is disbanded a year later.
The CAC was:
Capt. E.L. Janney, Lt. W.F.N. Sharpe and Lt. H.A. Farr.
The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is launched during the Space Shuttle mission STS-48 carrying the Canadian designed Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII) which measures wind, temperature and emission rate from the aurora. The satellite was decommissioned in 2005 but continues to orbit.
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