On 5 December 1941, the prototype of the two-seat Japanese floatplane Kawanishi E15K Shiun (Allied reporting name: Norm) made its first flight. In 1939, the Imperial Japanese Navy assigned the Kawanishi Aircraft Company the challenging […]
On 28 November 1938, the first prototype of the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor (also known as Kurier) transport aircraft began its record flight from Berlin to Tokyo. The journey, which included stops in Basra, Karachi […]
On 21 November 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes made the world´s first untethered flight in a Montgolfier hot air balloon. The aerostat reached an altitude of 3,000 feet and remained airborne […]
On 14 November 1935, the Noorduyn Norseman, a Canadian bush plane, performed its first flight. The aircraft was designed by Robert B.C. Noorduyn, a Dutch-born aviation engineer. His aviation career began in 1913, when Noorduyn […]
On 7 November 1910, an aeroplane designed by Emma Lilian Todd performed a powered hop at the Garden City airfield in New York. Emma Lilian (Lily) Todd was born in Washington, D.C. on 12 June […]
On 31 October 1974, the first flights of prototypes of a new ground-attack aircraft – jointly developed by Romania and Yugoslavia – took place in both respective countries. The Romanian- and Yugoslav-built prototypes both flew […]
On 24 October 1919, Frank Nicholas Piasecki, an American engineer and pioneer of rotorcraft aviation, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Piasecki, the son of Polish immigrants, began his engineering career at a young age. During […]
On 17 October 1922, the first aircraft, a Vought VE-7 biplane, was launched from USS Langley, the first aircraft carrier of the US Navy. Although it was neither the first time an aeroplane had taken […]
On 10th October 1976, the prototype of a small utility aircraft, the Embraer EMB 121 Xingu, performed its first flight. The EMB 121 was one of the aircraft belonging to the Family 12X, a series […]
On 3rd October 1968, the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle #1 (LLTV-1) performed its maiden flight at Ellington Air Force Base. The flight between lunar orbit and the surface of the Moon – and back – […]
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