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• Dragan Lazic 06/03/2013

  Record-Breaking Aircraft Known as "Missile With a Man in It" Lands at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor

  HONOLULU, May 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The iconic Lockheed F-104A Starfighter, Serial No. 56-817 made its final landing at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor on May 9, 2013, bringing the Museum's ever-expanding iconic aircraft collection ...

• Dragan Lazic 12/21/2012

  A piece of aviation history for 20 December

  Nancy Love BiographyNancy Harkness Love was born on February 14, 1914 in Houghton, Michigan, the daughter of a wealthy physician. She developed an intense interest in aviation at an early age. At 16 she took ...

• Dragan Lazic 12/18/2012

  A piece of aviation history for 17 December

  Seventy-two years ago today, representatives of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand signed the British Commonwealth Air Training Planagreement.  This agreement committed the countries to training 50,000 airmen per annum until the ...

• Dragan Lazic 12/17/2012

  A piece of aviation history for 13 December

  The Fairey Seafox was a pre-war maritime floatplane version of the biplane Fairey Fox which first flew on 3 January, 1923.  It was designed to meet specification S.11/32 for a spotting and reconnaissance ...

• Dragan Lazic 12/17/2012

  A piece of aviation history for 12 December

  Fifty-seven years ago this month, USAF Major Arthur W. “Kit” Murray set a new world altitude record of 90,440 feet in the rocket-powered Bell X-1A.  In doing so, Murray reported that he could detect ...

• Dragan Lazic 12/17/2012

  A piece of aviation history for 11 December

  11 December 1917: Katherine Stinson flew her custom-built Curtiss biplane from Rockwell Field, North Island, San Diego to the Presidio of San Francisco, a distance of 606 miles (975 kilometers)*, in 9 hours, 10 minutes ...

• Dragan Lazic 12/17/2012

  A piece of aviation history for 10 December

  HMS Ark Royal. The Royal Navy's first purpose built aircraft carrier. The Royal Navy allocated £81,000 for the acquisition and conversion of a merchant ship. Mercantile hull lying on the stocks at Blyth ...

• Dragan Lazic 12/02/2012

  A piece of aviation history for 30 November

  November 30  1934 – The record-setting FrenchaviatrixHélène Boucher dies when the Renault Viva Grand Sport she is piloting on a test flight crashes into the woods at Guyancourt, France.

• Dragan Lazic 12/02/2012

  A piece of aviation history for 29 November

  American explorer Richard Byrd and three companions make the first flight over the South Pole, flying from their base on the Ross Ice Shelf to the pole and back in 18 hours and 41 minutes ...

• Dragan Lazic 12/02/2012

  A piece of aviation history for 28 November

  1938 – 28-30 – A Lufthansa Fw 200 (right) makes the airline's first flight to Japan, flying non-stop from Berlin to Tokyo via Basra,Karachi, and Hanoi. The 14,228 km (8,841 mile) flight breaks ...

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