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Category Archives: Aviation
Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine
The Wright Brothers Patent the Miracle of Flight This Day in 1903 On March 23, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright filed the first patent for their “Flying Machine” which they would fly successfully on December 17 of the same year. Other inventors were making strides elsewhere around the world, but the Wrights achieved the first [...]
Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off on its final mission
Injured US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords sees husband Mark Kelly take the helm as Nasa shuttle nears retirement Endeavour has blasted off on its final space shuttle flight as the mission commander’s wounded wife, the US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, watched along with an exhilarated crowd well into the thousands.Nasa is winding down its 30-year-old shuttle programme [...]
SAS jetliner crashes off L.A. coast, Jan. 13,1969
Posted By: Scott Harrison Posted On: 9:05 a.m. | May 10, 2011 Jan. 13, 1969: Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) Flight 933 crashed about six miles offshore in Santa Monica Bay while on approach to Los Angeles International Airport. Fifteen passengers and crew were killed and 30 survive.
Also posted in Man Made Disasters, Today in History
Tagged 1969, Jan. 13, SAS jetliner crashes off L.A. coast
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RICHARD E. BYRD AND FLOYD BENNETT: FIRST TO FLY OVER THE NORTH POLE
Aviation History | Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:05 pm Icy winds swept across Spitsbergen, an island group on the Arctic Circle north of Norway. In May of 1926, Spitsbergen’s barren, frozen landscape erupted with activity as two international expeditions struggled to become the first to fly over the North Pole. Famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, [...]