Happy birthday to Lufthansa! United Grounds Ted, the US Marines take delivery of their first AV-8 Harrier and more... The post Today in Aviation History: January 6 appeared first on NYCAviatio...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2015/01/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-january-6th/6476
The Space Shuttle program is launched, Amelia Earhart is declared legally dead, Independence Air ceases operations, and more... The post Today in Aviation History: January 5th appeared first o...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2015/01/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-january-5th/6464
The world's first airport opens near Paris, the last moon mission returns to earth, a Chalk's Ocean Airways crash is captured on video, and more... The post Today in Aviation History: December ...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/12/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-december-19th/6166
The midair collision of a United DC-8 and TWA Constellation over New York City, Concorde makes the first sub-3-hour Atlantic crossing, an Air Canada CRJ crashes, and more... The post Today in A...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/12/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-december-16th/5961
In a near disaster, KLM Flight 867 loses all engines temporarily after flying through a cloud of volcanic ash, McDonnell Douglas and Boeing merge, the Boeing 787 makes its first flight, and more....
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/12/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-december-15th/5888
Airbus launches the A320neo program, NASA's Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft flies for the first time, LaGuardia Airport in New York opens for business, and more... The post Today in Aviatio...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/12/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-december-2nd/5398
TWA ceases operations, Northwest Orient Flight 6231 crashes in NY, the Civil Air Patrol is born, and more... The post Today in Aviation History: December 1st appeared first on NYCAviation .
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/12/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-december-1st/5371
KLM Flight 861 is hijacked while enroute to New Dehli, aircraft carrier USS Enterprise is commissioned, the first successful parachute jump in Antarctica and more... The post Today in Aviation ...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/11/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-november-25th/5269
DB Cooper jumps out of a Northwest Orient plane, BOAC is formed through a merger, and more... The post Today in Aviation History: November 24th appeared first on NYCAviation .
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/11/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-november-24th/5243
America's first municipal airport opens in Tucson, an aircraft reaches Mach 2 for the first time, several tragic crashes, and more... The post Today in Aviation History: November 20th appeared...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/11/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-november-20th/5132
China launches their first spacecraft, TAP Flight 425 crashes, Apollo 12 lands on the Moon, construction of Ronald Reagan Airport begins, and more. The post Today in Aviation History: November ...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/11/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-november-19th/5106
Boeing's first monoplane makes its first flight, the X-15 sets a Mach 6 speed record, the Battle of Berlin begins, and more... The post Today in Aviation History: November 18th appeared first ...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/11/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-november-18th/18295
President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, the Soviets land a robot on the Moon, the Daily Mail offers a prize for the first London-Manchester flight, and more... The pos...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/11/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-november-17th/18252
Female aviator Amy Johnson breaks a speed record, Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes with the Marshall University football team, the 747-8 program is launched, and more... The post Today in Av...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/11/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-november-14th/5008
A Wright Flyer completes the first air freight flight, BOAC retires its last flying boat, Sabena flies for the last time, and more... The post Today in Aviation History: November 7th appeared ...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/11/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-november-7th/18067
Two important milestones for aircraft carriers, the third National Airlines folds, the Sumburgh helicopter disaster kills 45 people in England, and more... The post Today in Aviation History: N...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/11/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-november-6th/4728
Milestone: The first ever airship flight is completed between England and France. Tragedies: China Airlines and Bali Air Service flights overrun runways, and Balkan Bulgaran Airlines and Iberia f...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/11/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-november-4th/4715
Historically, Halloween has proven itself not the safest day to fly, as it is the anniversary of five airliner crashes killing a total of over 600 people, including EgyptAir Flight 990. It was al...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/10/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-october-31st/4604
On this day in 1985, Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on what would be its final successful mission; in 1976 a Pan Am 747SP sets a speed record for a trans-polar round-the-world flight; in 19...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/10/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-october-30th/4576
The US Dept. of Justice approves the Delta/Northwest merger, John Glenn becomes the oldest man to enter space, a plane carrying the California Polytechnic State University football team crashes, ...
https://www.nycaviation.com/2014/10/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-october-29th/4549