The landing ropes were dropped at 7.21pm, and shortly afterwards the Hindenburg was engulfed by flames.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The landing ropes were dropped at 7.21pm, and shortly afterwards the Hindenburg was engulfed by flames.
Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a Parisian plumber.
Operation Rolling Thunder lasted for three and a half years and saw hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs dropped on North Vietnam.
The German Empire established its first air force, the Fliegertruppe, in 1910 which saw extensive action in the First World War.
Elm Farm Ollie gave a total of 24 quarts (23 litres) of milk which was then packed into paper cartons and dropped by parachute to the crowds at the St Louis International Air Show.
The plane, named the City of Everett, left the Paine Field runway near Everett in Washington State – about 30 miles north of Seattle – and successfully performed a number of tests before landing at 12.50pm.
Operation Looking Glass began flying an Airborne Command Post above the United States 24 hours a day.
Although nobody was injured during Italy’s attack, the Ottoman Empire complained that aerial bombing contravened the Hague Convention.
Piazza made history’s first reconnaissance flight when he observed the Turkish lines from a Blériot XI aircraft.
Rust approached Moscow in the early evening and, after passing the city’s ‘Ring of Steel’ anti-aircraft defences, touched down on a bridge next to St Basil’s Cathedral and taxied his aircraft into Red Square.
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