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24.03.
1869 - Aerodynamic scientist S.A. Chaplygin is born.
1908 - Odessa aeroclub is formed.
1918 - �Flight Laboratory� organized at the Moscow airfield. It was a flying department of the design and experimental bureau of the MVTU. (The Bureau chief was N.E. Zhukovskiy).
1927 - M.V. Frunze unified machine building plant No. 24 is formed (now the Salyut MMPP).
1937 - Test pilot V.I. Loychikov is born.
1941 - Plant No. 99 for production of aviation technical equipment is formed.
1947 - General Designer of the M.L. Mil� MVZ (1997-1999) G.A. Sinel�shchikov is born.
1949 - First flight of the swept-wing �82" jet bomber (the Tu-22-2), crew led by A.D. Perelet.
1951 - V.M. Myasishchev�s OKB-23 if formed.
1949 - First flight of A.I. Sukhov's hypersonic (Mach-8...9) model.
1960 - First flight of the Tu-124 passenger airplane.
1966 - First full profile flight of the Yak-36 VTOL.

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25.03.
1893 – Birth of Romolo Ticconi, Italian World War I flying ace.
1931 – First flight of the Hawker Fury (Mk.1 shown), a British biplane fighter.
1950 – A Mandated Air Lines Lockheed Hudson IVA crashes into a house while trying to make an emergency landing at Law-Nadzab Airport in Papua New Guinea.
1956 – The last Martin XB-51, an American “tri-jet” ground attack prototype, crashes during takeoff.
2001 – Death of Ernest Brian Trubshaw, notable test pilot and the first British pilot to fly the Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde.
2013 – The rebel Kachin Independence Army reports that Myanmar Air Force aircraft attacking its positions in northern Myanmar have overflown the People’s Republic of China during the day, penetrating as far as a half-mile into Chinese airspace.

1909 - Fighter pilot I.S. Lyubimov is born.
1916 - Three first fighter squadrons formed - the start of the creation of domestic fighter aviation.
1929 - Marshall of Aviation A.N. Volkov is born.
1952 - Start of program of state tests of the 88/1 bomber (prototype of the Tu-16).
1957 - For the first time in the country Mach 2.335 and an altitude of 25,600 meters are reached in a Ye-50 from the MiG OKB by Vp.P. Vasin.
1964 - Start of regular passenger service to the Domodedovo airport.
1971 - First flight of the Il-76T assault transport aircraft from the M.V. Frunze Central Airfield.
1984 - International flights in Tu-154 between Moscow and Frankfurt-on-Main are begun.

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26.03.
1911 - Test pilot N.S. Rybko is born.
1923 - Ukrainian society of air service communications �Ukrvozdukhput�� is created.
1931 - Navigator tester Yu. M. Gubarev is born.
1932 - Name �Aeroflot� given to chief directorate of the Civil Air Fleet.

The Curtiss C-46 Commando flew for the first time 75 years ago today. Developed from the CW-20, the C-46 was the largest and heaviest twin-engine cargo aircraft of World War II. Curtiss built 3,181 aircraft and it was used by the United States Army Air Forces as well as the Navy and Marine Corps. Although it never achieved the elegance of the Douglas DC-3, the Commando had a greater capacity to carry troops and cargo and found fame flying supply missions in the Far East over the Himalayas - the "Hump." C-46s remained in active military service long after the end of World War II, participating in the Korean and Vietnam wars. The CIA employed the type for clandestine operations with the "airline" known as Air America and hundreds became servants with air carriers in dozens of countries.

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27.03.


1905 – Birth of Elizabeth Muriel Gregory “Elsie” MacGill, known as the “Queen of the Hurricanes;” she becomes the world’s first female aircraft designer.
1936 – First flight of the Fokker D.XXI , a Dutch low-wing monoplane fighter.
1945 – Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan’s ports and waterways, begins. The mining runs are made by individual U.S. Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortresses at night at moderately low altitudes with radar providing mine release information. The effort will sink more ship tonnage in the last six months of the war than the efforts of all other sources combined.
1962 – A Cubana de Aviacion Ilyushin IL-14 crashes into the sea about a mile from Santiago, Cuba, just after take off; all 22 aboard perish.
1969 – Death of René Alphonse Pelissier, French World War I flying ace.
2004 – NASA’s X-43 unmanned experimental hypersonic aircraft breaks the world speed record for an atmospheric engine by briefly flying at 4,780 miles per hour or seven times the speed of sound.

1913 - Tests (Taxiing and short hops) of I.I. Sikorsky�s �Grand� biplane begin.
1914 - I.I. Sikorsky sets world record for speed with 4 passengers of 106 km/hr in his S-6A airplane.
1941 - Leningrad Institute of the Civil Air Fleet Engineers reorganized into the A.F. Mozhayskiy air force academy.
1943 - For the first time in the USSR a speed of nearly 800 kph was reached in the BI-1 aircraft with a liquid fuel jet engine. The flight ended in catastrophe and the pilot G.Ya. Bakhchivandzhi was killed.
1956 - First flight of the upgraded V.M. Myasishchev 3M (201M) strategic bomber.
1968 - World's first cosmonaut, Yuriy A. Gagarin, is killed in an aviation catastrophe.

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28.03.
The Consolidated PBY Catalina flew for the first time 80 years ago today. The PBY was named "Catalina" for the resort island off the coast of California by the British, which satisfied the Royal Air Force requirement that aircraft names be representative of the manufacturer. A World War II long-range maritime patrol bomber, the PBY Catalina became famous for its braced parasol wing and seagoing hull and was built in larger numbers than any other flying boat in aviation history! Catalinas were produced either as pure flying boats or as amphibians, with retractable tricycle landing gear. The main landing gear pulled up into wheel wells above the hull line and were left exposed. The large, unobstructed plank-like wing gave the Catalina excellent endurance while outrigger stabilizing floats hinged upward to form the wingtip fairing in flight. The large "greenhouses" on each side of the fuselage could mount heavy machine guns and were perfect for observation. Crew fatigue was often the limiting factor on mission length with pilots being expected to occupy the flight deck for up to 20 hours at a time. The well-loved "Cat" could carry 4,000 pounds of bombs or depth charges at a range of over 2,000 miles to attack the enemy's fleet and submarines! Catalinas fought on all the world's oceans and were instrumental in denying the Axis forces the use of the sea. It was a Catalina that first spotted the Japanese fleet approaching Midway Island, which began the Battle of Midway and changed the tide of the war. The aircraft also achieved thousands of rescues in all circumstances throughout the war - a PBY piloted by Lieutenant Commander Adrian Marks rescued 56 sailors from the USS Indianapolis after the ship was torpedoed and sunk on July 30, 1945.

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29.03.
1912 - Military aviatrix M.M. Raskova is born.
1916 - Resolution to form a Russian fighter aviation unit.
1940 - Founding of the air force academy (called the Yu. A. Gagarin Academy after 1968).
1954 - Leader of A.S. Yakovlev OKB A.N. Dondukov is born.
1990 - First flight of the regional Il-114 from the M.V. Frunze Central Airport built at the S.V. Il�yushin OKB. The Il-114 has received an American certificate of flightworthiness.

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30.03.
1894 – Birth of Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin, Soviet aircraft designer who later founds the Ilyushin aircraft design bureau.
1936 – The first successful bail-out from a rotary-winged aircraft takes place when William H. “Bill” McAvoy and engineer John Wheatley abandon their Pitcairn YG-2 Autogiro when the rotor fails.
1941 – The first powered flight of the Heinkel He 280, a German fighter prototype; it is the first turbojet-powered fighter in the world.
1954 – Joe DeBona, with a North American P-51C Mustang (shown), sets a transcontinental speed record for piston-engine planes when he flies from Los Angeles, Calif., nonstop to New York’s Idlewild Airport in four hours, 24 minutes and 17 seconds; he averaged 560 mph.
1973 – Death of Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Scottish nobleman and pioneering aviator.
2008 – A privately registered Cessna 501 Citation, carrying five people, crashes into two homes in Farnborough, England, after taking off from a London airport.

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01,04,
The North American Aviation T-6 Texan flew for the first time 80 years ago today. A two-seat pilot trainer, the T-6 developed from the NA-16 prototype and was the most extensively used trainer ever produced! More than 300,000 American and Allied pilots earned their wings in "the pilot maker." Known as the AT-6 in the United States Army Air Forces, the SNJ in the United States Navy and the Harvard in the RAF and Commonwealth air forces, the aircraft is one of the most famous of all time. More than 15,000 trainers in this series were manufactured before, during and after World War II and the Texan served with the air arms of more than three dozen countries! Hundreds of Texans are still airworthy today among the private warbird community and can be seen on the air show circuit and at the Reno Air Races.

1906 - Birth of aircraft designer A.S. Yakovlev
1910 - Birth of test pilot S.N. Anokhin.
1932 - First series-produced amphibious aircraft, the Sh-2 designed by V.B. Shavrov, built in Russia.
1932 - Uniforms and rank insignia introduced for workers of the civil air fleet.
1950 - Two Il-12D towing Ts-25 gliders land at the North Pole.
1960 - "Aeroproject," the State Design Institute and Scientific Research Institute of the Civil Aviation Fleet, is formed.
1960 - I. Sukhomlin and crew establish eight world speed records over a 2,000 km closed circuit of 857.277 kph with a load of 1 to 25 tonnes aboard a Tu-114.
1992 - First flight of the series produced multirole Su-35 fighter.

1918 – The Royal Air Force is born; it is formed from the army’s Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
1939 – First flight of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero (A6M3 Model 22 shown), a long-range fighter operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service.
1973 – Birth of Sergei Aleksandrovich Volkov, Russian Air Force pilot and cosmonaut; he is the first second-generation cosmonaut.
1976 – Piper’s 100,000th airplane, a PA31T Cheyenne II, is rolled out from the company’s Lock Haven, Pa., plant.
1977 – Death of John Herbert Hedley, British World War I flying ace.
2011 – Southwest Airlines Flight 812, a Boeing 737-300 with 123 people aboard, suffers an in-flight structural failure which opens a six-foot-long hole in its fuselage and triggers an explosive decompression and the deployment of oxygen masks. Only two people suffer minor injuries, and the airliner makes a successful emergency landing in Arizona. Southwest Airlines grounds all 80 of its 737-300s for inspection.

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02.04.
22 years ago today, the British Aerospace Sea Harrier FA2 was delivered to the Royal Navy. The Sea Harrier FA2 (informally known as the "SHAR") was a single-seat, Vertical/Short-Takeoff and Landing (V/STOL) fighter aircraft optimized for shipboard operations. British Aerospace upgraded 33 surviving Sea Harrier FRS1s to FA2 standards, with a batch of 18 new FA2s being delivered between 1995 and 1998. The FA2 upgrade of the original Sea Harrier FRS1 involved changes to the airframe, cockpit, avionics, radar and armament. The most obvious change with the FA2 was the Blue Vixen radar mounted in a new radome. The new pulse-Doppler radar featured lookdown/shootdown capability, track-while-scan, multiple target tracking and improved surface target detection capabilities. The FA2 was the first UK aircraft to carry the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM). The pairing of Blue Vixen and AMRAAM gave the FA2 a true Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air interception capability. The Rolls-Royce Pegasus Mk 106 powerplant offered a slight thrust increase and improved thrust at lower operating temperatures. Sea Harrier FA2s participated in deployments to the Adriatic Sea and Persian Gulf before being retired from service in 2006.
1918 - N.I. Petrov and his mechanic Schnor makes the first Soviet non-stop flight from Petrograd to Moscow in a Sopwith aircraft.
1925 - First class of engineers and mechanics graduates from the N.E. Zhukovskiy Air Fleet Academy.
1960 - V. Kovalev and crew establish six world speed records over a 2000-km closed circuit of 959.94 kph without payload and with a paylod of 1 to 15 tonnes aboard a Tu-104 powered by two RD-3M turbojets
1996 - First flight of the highly-maneuverable Su-37 fighter with vectored thrust engines.

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06.04.
1897 – Birth of James Fitz Morris, Scottish World War I fighter ace and instructor.
1926 – Varney Speed Lines begins operations in the U.S.; it will later become Continental Airlines.
1938 – First flight of the Bell P-39 Airacobra, a principal American fighter in service at the start of World War II. It is the first fighter in history with a tricycle undercarriage and the first to have the engine installed in the center fuselage, behind the pilot.
1962 – The Royal Canadian Air Force retires the last Canso flying boat at Downsview, Ontario.
1974 – Death of Sir Wilmot Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman, World War I flying ace and founder of the Australian airline Qantas.
2012 – A McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet of the U.S. Navy crashes on take-off from Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia Beach, Va. Both crew eject and the aircraft smashes into a block of apartment complexes, but no ground injuries are reported.