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9th February 1969: First test flight of the Boeing 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ at Paine Field in Washington State

9th February 2023
Tagged as: Aeroplane, Aircraft, America, Boeing, Pan Am, Technology, Transatlantic, Travel, USA

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.

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21st May 1927 and 1932: Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic, followed five years later by Emilia Earhart as the first woman

21st May 2022
Tagged as: Aircraft, Aviation, Charles Lindbergh, Emilia Earhart, Flight, Transatlantic

The very first non-stop transatlantic flight had occurred in 1919 when John Alcock and Arthur Whiten Brown flew a modified Vickers Vimy bomber aircraft from Newfoundland to Ireland in just under 16 hours.

Tag: Transatlantic

9th February 1969: First test flight of the Boeing 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ at Paine Field in Washington State

21st May 1927 and 1932: Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic, followed five years later by Emilia Earhart as the first woman

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

21st March 1921: The New Economic Policy introduced to the USSR by Vladimir Lenin

20th March 1602: The Dutch East India Company established

19th March 1962: Bob Dylan, the American singer-songwriter, releases his eponymous debut album

18th March 1834: Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation to Australia

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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