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2nd March 1965: USA launches Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam

  • 2nd March 2021
  • Tagged as: Aircraft, America, Bomb, Cold War, Communism, Technology, USA, Viet Cong, Vietnam, War

On the 2nd March 1965 the United States military, alongside the Republic of Vietnam Air Force, began Operation Rolling Thunder as part of the Vietnam War.

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18th February 1930: Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly

  • 18th February 2021
  • Tagged as: Aircraft, America, Animals, Flight, Science, Technology, USA

On the 18th February 1930, Nellie Jay – better known as Elm Farm Ollie – became the first cow to fly in an aeroplane.

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6th February 1958: Munich air disaster kills Manchester Utd players

  • 6th February 2021
  • Tagged as: Aircraft, Britain, Culture, Football, Germany, Sport, Yugoslavia

On the 6th February 1958, British European Airways flight 609 crashed at Munich-Riem Airport while carrying the Manchester United football team, supporters and journalists.

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3rd February 1961: Operation Looking Glass begins its 29-year Cold War flight above the USA

  • 3rd February 2021
  • Tagged as: Aircraft, Atomic Bomb, Cold War, Nuclear, USA, USSR

Operation Looking Glass began flying an Airborne Command Post above the United States 24 hours a day.

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29th November 1929: Richard E. Byrd completes the first flight over the South Pole

  • 29th November 2020
  • Tagged as: Aircraft, America, Antarctica, Exploration, South Pole, United States, USA

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.

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23rd October 1910: Blanche Stuart Scott becomes the first American woman to pilot an aircraft in public

  • 23rd October 2020
  • Tagged as: Aircraft, Flight, Technology, Women

She continued making exhibition flights until 1916, earning her the nickname the ‘Tomboy of the Air’.

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20th October 1977: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane crashes during an emergency landing, killing three members of the band

  • 20th October 2020
  • Tagged as: Aircraft, America, Culture, Louisiana, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Music, United States, USA

Lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and backing singer Cassie Gaines were all killed in the crash.

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6th August 1945: The USA drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima

  • 6th August 2020
  • Tagged as: Aircraft, Atomic Bomb, Bomb, Japan, Second World War, USA, War in the Pacific

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.

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25th July 1909: Louis Blériot makes the first powered cross-Channel flight

  • 25th July 2020
  • Tagged as: Aircraft, Aviation, Daily Mail, English Channel, Flight, France, Invention, Science, Technology

French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft.

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21st May 1927 & 1932: First male & female solo transatlantic flights

  • 21st May 2020
  • Tagged as: Aircraft, America, France, Ireland, Technology, USA, Women

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.

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