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.
The 3rd February 1959 was the Day The Music Died, when rock and roll pioneers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
The first aerial crossing of the English Channel was conducted by Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries in a gas-filled balloon.
On the 17th December 1903, American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight.
On the 1st November 1911, the first aerial bombing using an aeroplane took place when Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti dropped four grenades on Turkish troops in Libya.
Piazza made history’s first reconnaissance flight when he observed the Turkish lines from a Blériot XI aircraft.
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