This Day in Aviation

The Strategic Air Command’s very first operational Boeing B-52, Boeing RB-52B-15-BO Stratofortress 52-8711.

McDonnell F-101A-1-MC Voodoo 53-2418 parked on Rogers Dry Lake, Edwards Air Force Base, California.

The world record-setting flight crew of The Turtle, left to right, Commander Eugene P.

Supermarine S.6B S.1595 at the London Science Museum.

Second Lieutenant Frank Luke, Jr., Air Service, United States Army.

Dassault Mystère IV 01 (Dassault Aviation) 28 September 1952: At Aérodrome de Melun Villaroche, test pilot Kostia Rozanoff made the first flight of the Dassault MD.454 Mystère IV jet fighter prototype, 01.

Lieutenant David Rittenhouse, United States Navy, with Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company CR-3 serial number A-6081, circa 1923.

First Lieutenant John Arthur Macready, Air Service, United States Army, dressed in high-altitude clothing with parachute, stands in front of a Packard Lepère L USA C.II, circa 1921 (Air Service, United States Army, A-11270 A.S.)

Coupe Gordon-Bennett d’ aviation, sculpted by André Auroc (airrace.com) 28 September 1920: The fifth Gordon Bennett Aviation Trophy Races was held.

2nd Lieutenant Lewis Cassidy Rockwell, 10th Infantry, United States Army.

Sikorsky MH-53M Pave Low IV, 68-8284, “Cowboy 26,” prepares for its final combat mission, Iraq, 27 September 2008.

Boeing 727-214, N533PS, PSA Flight 182, on fire after mid-air collision, 25 September 1978.

Commander John Franklin (“Jeff”) Davis, United States Navy, with a McDonnell F4H-1 Phantom II.

From left to right, Polina Osipenko, Valentine Grizodubova and Marina Raskova, with the record-setting Tupolev ANT-37, Rodina.

Test pilot Joseph Sadi-Lecointe with a Nieuport Delâge Ni-D 40R World Altitude Record-setting biplane, circa 1923.

Le Marquis Bernard Henri Marie Léonard Barny de Romanet with the SPAD S.20 bis-6, 9 October 1920.

Captain Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, Air Service, American Expeditionary Force.

The Wright Brothers’ camp at the Kill Devil Hills.

John Watts Young (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) JOHN W.

Lieutenant James Harold (“Jimmy”) Doolittle, Air Corps, United States Army, in rear cockpit of the Consolidated NY-2 Husky, NX7918, a trainer equipped with experimental flight instruments.

Newton House, 118–119 Picadilly, Mayfair, London.

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Colonel Robin Olds, USAF, in the cockpit of McDonnell F-4C-21-MC Phantom II, 63-7668, on his last flight out of Ubon-Rachitani RTAFB as Wing Commander, 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, 23 September 1967.

North American Aviation P-51B Mustang fighter in the Full-Scale Tunnel, NACA Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, Hampton, Virginia, 23 September 1943.

Le Marquis Bernard Henri Marie Léonard Barny de Romanet with a Spad-Herbemont, (S.20bis6) 9 October 1920.

Leutnant Werner Voss, Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte.

Roland Garros’ Morane-Saulnier G monoplane. 23 September 1913: Pioneering aviator Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros (6 October 1888–5 October 1918) was the first pilot to fly across the Mediterranean Sea.

Ansett-ANA Vickers Viscount Type 832, VH-RMI.

Lockheed AH-56A-LO Cheyenne 66-8827 hovering at Van Nuys Airport, 21 September 1967.

North American Aviation XB70A-1-NA 62-0001 takes off for the first time, Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California, 21 September 1964.

Vertol YCH-1B-BV 59-4983 hovers in ground effect.

Boeing XB-29 prototype takes off from Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, 1942.

Seversky SEV-1XP R18Y, with Jacqueline (Jackie) Cochran in the cockpit.

The first of two prototypes, Avro Type 698 VX770.

Geoffrey de Havilland, Jr., exits the cockpit of one of the company’s jet aircraft.

Lieutenant (j.g.)

Wilbur Wright, 1867–1912.

The first prototype V-24.

Operation Market Garden (Department of National Defence) 19 September 1944: Air Ministry, 13th November, 1945.

Stanley Spencer’s airship over London. 19 September 1902: The New York Times reported: AN AIRSHIP TRAVELS NEARLY THIRTY MILES Stanley Spencer, the Aeronaut, Astonishes Londoners.

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Earth and The Moon, photographed by Voyager 1, 18 September 1977.

Jackie Cochran with her record-setting Northrop T-38A-30-NO Talon, 60-0551, at Edwards Air Force Base, California, 1961.

Vanguard 3 is launched aboard Vanguard SLV-7 from Launch Complex 18A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, 12:20:07 a.m., EST, 18 September 1959.

Lieutenant Ellis Dent Shannon, Air Corps, United States Army 18 September 1948: The first delta-winged aircraft took flight for the first time when Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation test pilot Ellis D.

In a visual reminder of United States Air Force heritage, a World War II-era Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress four-engine heavy bomber flies in formation with a Boeing B-52H Stratofortress eight-engine strategic bomber.

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Graf Zeppelin over the airship hangars at Friedrichshafen.

Roland Rohlfs after setting an FAI altitude record of 9,241 meters (30,318 feet) at Garden City, New York, 20 July 1919.

Captain Rudolph William Schroeder, Air Service, United States Army, with the Bristol fighter which he flew to a world record altitude, 18 September 1918.