The four-man crew boarded a Ford Trimotor airplane, and at 1am on 29 November reached the South Pole where they flew beyond and to the left and right in case of any navigational errors.
She continued making exhibition flights until 1916, earning her the nickname the ‘Tomboy of the Air’.
Lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and backing singer Cassie Gaines were all killed in the crash.
On the 6th August 1945, the USA dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima from the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay.
French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft.
On the 21st May 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to make a solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic when he flew 3,600 miles from New York to Paris.
The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval battle in which the participating ships never came in sight of each other, ended.
Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a Parisian plumber.
The German Empire established its first air force, the Fliegertruppe, in 1910 which saw extensive action in the First World War.
On the 9th February 1969, the first test flight of the Boeing 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ took place.
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