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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Wed Aug 05, 2020 9:46 pm

90 years ago today:
on this date in 1930 Neil Alden Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Armstrong went on to fly Panthers in the Navy, fly X-15s, and crewed Gemini 8 and Apollo 11. He went for a stroll on the moon too.
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77 years ago today:
It was #OTD in 1943 that the WASP were born! To find out more about the amazing women of the WASP, follow the RISE ABOVE WASP page on Facebook! https://bit.ly/31hCKDk
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66 years ago today:
On this date in 1954 the first pre-production Douglas A2D-1 Skyshark, BuNo 125480, suffered a catastrophic in-flight failure of its gearbox forcing pilot George Jansen to eject. Jansen suffered severe back injuries. The Skyshark program was canceled a month later.
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49 years ago today:
On this date in 1971 the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 entered service with American Airlines.
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Thu Aug 06, 2020 4:48 am

24 years ago today, the Kawasaki OH-1 helicopter, nicknamed "Ninja", flew for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTWOGqJ5rz4
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Thu Aug 06, 2020 2:36 pm

67 years ago today:
on this date in 1953, slugger Ted Williams returned to the Red Sox after flying 39 missions with VMF-223 Bulldogs over Korea.
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51 years ago today:
#OTD in 1969, the biggest helicopter ever built, the Soviet Mil V-12 set world lifting record for rotary-winged aircraft of 88,636 lb. While it's past WWII, it's a record that still hasn't been beaten! Do you think it ever will be?
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Fri Aug 07, 2020 4:42 am

79 years ago today, the Grumman TBF (later General Motors TBM) Avenger torpedo bomber flew for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRl0Y1PPdgo

69 years ago today, the McDonnell F3H Demon flew for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_XyJB-h4cM

57 years ago today, the Lockheed YF-12 flew for the first time. The YF-12 would serve as the basis for the SR-71 Blackbird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s442wFNzCo
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Fri Aug 07, 2020 2:52 pm

75 years ago today:
on this date in 1945 the Nakajima Kikka (Orange Blossom) flew for the first time. We'll never know how this Messerschmitt Me 262 knock-off would have matched up against Twentieth Air Force B-29s.
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30 years ago today:
On this date in 1990 Operation Desert Shield kicked into high gear.
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Sat Aug 08, 2020 4:49 am

85 years ago today, the Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 flew for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGj4F9SQfr8

74 years ago today, the Convair B-36 (nicknamed Peacemaker) flew for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzTzmQhalOI

53 years ago today, the Boeing 737-200 flew for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlNd7f_3LsY

38 years ago today, the Cessna 208 Caravan flew for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UcLb7NhBmc

34 years ago today, the EAP (Experimental Aircraft Programme), a technology demonstrator aircraft developed by British Aerospace, flew for the first time. It eventually formed the basis for the Eurofighter Typhoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nszPMzlaRmU

31 years ago today, the HH-60 Jayhawk (now designated as the MH-60), a Coast Guard variant of the SH-60 Seahawk, flew for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LsDJ9GrArA
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Sun Aug 09, 2020 5:11 am

64 years ago today, the Fiat G.91 flew for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ialLrsvAw

44 years ago today, the Boeing YC-14, a twinjet short take-off and landing (STOL) tactical military transport aircraft, flew for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WY2k-uYz5E

24 years ago today, the Boeing E-767, an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) variant of the Boeing 767, made its first flight with a rotodome installed on the aircraft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srh9z8JnxFg
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Sun Aug 09, 2020 4:12 pm

44 years ago today:
on this date in 1976 the first Sikorsky YUH-60A prototype to fly made an emergency landing in a wooded area with 14 Army troops aboard. The main rotor cut down 40 pines up to five inches in diameter but the main rotor blades did not shatter and the passengers and crew were unhurt. After repairs the rotorcraft was flown out of the clearing it created three days later. The Army, duly impressed by the toughness of the rotorcaft, awarded the contract for the UTTAS (Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System) to Sikorsky.
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Mon Aug 10, 2020 2:49 pm

76 years ago today:
#OTD in 1944, Seventh Air Force B-24 Liberators launching from Saipan conduct the first bombing raid against Iwo Jima. There would be 10 more such raids in August alone. The naval bombardments and air raids against Iwo Jima would become the longest and most intense in the Pacific theater and would go on for nine months before the Allies finally moved to take the island. Do you know on what date the Allies first landed troops on Iwo Jima?
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18 years ago today:
on this date in 2002 US Airways filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Post by n33d4sp33d_85 » Tue Aug 11, 2020 5:20 am

48 years ago today, the Northrop F-5E Tiger II, an updated variant of the F-5A Freedom Fighter, flew for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTo6sm0MGZA
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