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3 September 1916 – SL 11 German dirigible is shot down over England

2 September 2021 Jacek Domański

On 3rd September 1916, Schütte-Lanz SL 11, a German dirigible that just performed a bomb raid over St Albans in Hertfordshire, was shot down by Lt. William Leefe Robinson of the No. 39 Home Defence […]

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27 August 1783 – the world´s first hydrogen balloon

26 August 2021 Jacek Domański

On 27th August 1783, French scientist, professor Jacques Charles and engineers Anne-Jean Robert and Nicolas-Louis Robert, have launched the first ever hydrogen-filled balloon. Although the idea of ballooning was as old as ancient China (approximately […]

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20 August 1942 – István Horthy dies in aviation accident

19 August 2021 Jacek Domański

On 20th August 1942, István Horthy de Nagybánya, the eldest son of Hungarian regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy, was killed when his Héja fighter crashed near Ilovskoye, Soviet Union. István Horthy was born on 9th December […]

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6 August 1941 – V.V. Talalikhin rams a He 111 over Moscow

5 August 2021 Jacek Domański

6 August 1941 – night-ramming of a German Heinkel He 111 bomber by V.V. Talalikhin. Viktor Vasilevich Talalikhin (Виктор Васильевич Талалихин) was born on 18th September 1918 in Tepolvka village, near Saratov. In 1934, his […]

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30 July 1921 – François Durafour lands at Dôme du Goûter

29 July 2021 Kacper Kolibowski

François Durafour, a Swiss aviation pioneer, was born on 27th November 1888 in Geneva. After completing his mechanical studies, Durafour initially worked at Ateliers Sécherons and then in 1910 he was employed as Hanriot aeroplane […]

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9 July 1944 – Ingvar Fredrik Håkansson

8 July 2021 Jacek Domański

Death of F/Sgt Ingvar Fredrik Håkansson, Swedish volunteer pilot in the Royal Air Force. Håkansson was born in the United Kingdom, in a mixed family of British mother and Swedish father (who was a navy […]

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2 July 1934 – transatlantic flight of Bellanca J-300 Special

2 July 2021 Kacper Kolibowski

Józef and Bolesław Adamowicz land their Bellanca J-300 Special in Warsaw, after a successful transatlantic flight from New York. Józef and Bolesław Adamowicz, businessmen and amateur aviators of Polish nationality, were born in 1893 and […]

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25 June 1975 – first flight of Yakovlev Yak-50

24 June 2021 Kacper Kolibowski

First flight of Yakovlev Yak-50, aerobatic trainer aircraft. Between 1946 and 1965, Yakovlev design bureau created, under common designation Yak-18, a series of quite different training and aerobatic aircraft. It included a variant designated Yak-18PM, […]

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18 June 1951 – ´Black day´ at the RAF Biggin Hill station

17 June 2021 Jacek Domański

´Black day´ at the RAF Biggin Hill station, with three crew fatalities and three Gloster Meteor aircraft lost within a few minutes. The Royal Air Force station at Biggin Hill was an airfield well known […]

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11 June 1937 – first flight of Kawanishi E11K

10 June 2021 Kacper Kolibowski

Kawanishi E11K, a Japanese experimental flying boat performed its first flight. The story of this aircraft began in 1936, when the Imperial Japanese Navy drew up a request for a new small flying boat, intended […]

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