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5 June 1969 – Tupolev Tu-144 went supersonic for the first time

5th June 2020 Jacek Domański

A prototype of Tupolev Tu-144 passenger jet went supersonic for the first time, becoming the first passenger jet to break the sound barrier. Tupolev´s jet did this a four months before its only competitor – […]

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1 May 1960 – U-2 incident

1st May 2020 Jacek Domański

´U-2 incident´ Francis Gary Powers, flying the U-2 spy-aircraft, was shot down near Sverdlovsk. If you want to learn more about the incident and its background, we recommend to check one of our ´Photo of […]

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Mikoyan Project 1.44 / МиГ 1.44 МФИ

25th February 2020 Jacek Domański

Mikoyan project 1.44 prototype (NATO reporting name ´Flatpack´) at the static exhibition of XIII International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2017, Zhukovsky airfield, Moscow area. In early 1980s, the United States of America launched an Advanced […]

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21 February 1972 – Luna-20 landed on the Moon

21st February 2020 Kacper Kolibowski

Luna-20 soft landed on the Moon Луна-20 (´Moon-20´) was one of eight in general, and the second of three unmanned space probes successfully sent to the Moon, with the task to bring a lunar ground […]

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31 January 1970 – Mikhail Leontyevich Mil

31st January 2020 Kacper Kolibowski

Mikhail Leontyevich Mil (Михаил Леонтьевич Миль) died from stroke, at the age of 60. Mikhail Mil was one of the aviation pioneers and one of the greatest aviation designers. Despite the fact that his first […]

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4 October 1957 – the Earth’s first artificial satellite

4th October 2019 Kacper Kolibowski

The mankind has launched the Earth’s first artificial satellite into space. Sputnik 1 – as that was the name of the satellite, was launched by Soviet Union on 4th October 1957, at 19:28 UTC from […]

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