This Day in Aviation

Enterprise rollout at Palmdale, California, 17 September 1976.

North American Aviation X-15A 56-6670 is carried under the right wing of Boeing NB-52A Stratofortress 52-003.

Bell Model 47D-1 N167B with modified landing gear and multiple fuel tanks.

Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiher von Richtofen.

First Lieutenant Thomas Etholen Selfridge, United States Army, by Robert B.

Unlimited Division racer The Galloping Ghost just before impact.

NASA 008, known as “Balls 8,” a modified Boeing RB-52B-10-BO Stratofortress, serial number 52-008, with NASA 824, a Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter, N824NA, 14 September 1979.

Pilot John Washington with the Strojnik S-4, Laminar Magic.

Mikoyan Design Bureau E-155MP 83/1 (OKB Mikoyan) Alexander Vasilyevich Fedotov 16 September 1975: Alexander Vasilyevich Fedotov, Mikoyan Experimental Design Bureau’s chief test pilot, took the Product 83 prototype, E-155MP 83/1, for its first flight.

North American Aviation NA-246 Sabreliner prototype, N4060K, during its first flight, 16 September 1958.

Actors Kirby Grant and Gloria Winters with a Cessna 310B, N5384A, the Songbird.

Supermarine S.6B S.1596 (BAE Systems) 16 September 1931: Flight Lieutenant George Hedley Stainforth of the Royal Air Force High-Speed Flight was flying the second Supermarine S.6B, S.1596, to test an alternate propeller before attempting a 3-kilometer spe…

Bessica Faith Curtis Medlar Raiche, M.D., 1910.

Cessna Fanjet 500 N500CC.

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

Major Richard Lowe Johnson, United States Air Force.

Jackie Cochran with her record-setting Seversky AP-7A, NX1384.

Captain Chris Stricklin ejects from his F-16C approximately 140 feet (43 meters) above the ground at Mountain Home AFB, 14 September 2003.

Major Fitzhugh L.

The prototype VS-300 helicopter clears the ground for the first time, 14 September 1939.

McDonnell Douglas F-15A-17-MC Eagle, 76-0084, “Celestial Eagle,” ASAT missile launch, 13 September 1985.

Flight Lieutenant John Smith, RAF, and Flight Officer Jean Oakes, WRAF, in the cockpit of an English Electric Lightning T Mk.4, at RAF Middleton St.

Howard Hughes in the cockpit of the Hughes H-1 Special, NR258Y, 1935.

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

Gemini XI lifts off from Launch Complex 19 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, 9:42:26.546 a.m.

President John F.

The Gloster G.37, prototype of the Gloster Gladiator Mk.I (Gloster Aircraft Co., Ltd.) 12 September 1934: Hawker Aircraft Company test pilot Flying Officer Phillip Edward Gerald Sayer made the first flight of the Gloster G.37, a prototype fighter for the…

Bell Helicopter Company prototype Model 206L LongRanger, N206L.

Pyotr Maksimovich Ostapenko (Encyclopedia of Safety) 11 September 1962: Flying the E-152\1, a record-setting prototype Mikoyan Gurevich interceptor, test pilot Pyotr Maksimovich Ostapenko set a new Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Record…

A Grumman F6F-5K Hellcat drone awaits its fate on “death row” at Armitage Field, NOTS China Lake, California.

North American Aviation XFJ-1 Fury.

Edison E.

The Sikorsky S-21 Russky Vityaz, in the four-engine configuration.

The 1,000th Boeing 747 is rolled out.

North American Aviation F-107A 55-5118 rolling out at Edwards Air Force Base.

An XF-99 BOMARC surface-to-air missile for booster research.

Captain Charles Barbin DeBellevue, United States Air Force, with his McDonnell F-4D Phantom II at Udorn RTAFB, 1972.

North American Aviation NA-73X prototype, NX19998, at Mines Field, California, 9 September 1940.