Elle Dolinar

aviation enthusiast / patient advocate / 412 native

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Today in Aviation History
8/1/1983 – America West Airlines begins flying, from Phoenix, AZ. After 24 years they would merge with US Airways
Photo: Torsten Maiwald
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Today in Aviation History
7/31/1913 – Alys McKey Bryant becomes the first woman pilot to fly in Canada, over Vancouver, in a Curtiss-type pusher biplane.
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Today in Aviation History
7/30/1910 – First flight of the Bristol Boxkite.
Photo: Alan Winston
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Today in Aviation History
7/29/1959 – QANTAS introduces the Boeing 707 on its Sydney-San Francisco route, the first transpacific service flown by jet.
Photo: Barry Lewis
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Today in Aviation History
7/28/1914 – World War I Aviation changes war in a twofold way. The aeroplane turns the sky into a new battle field where about 20,000 flyers, most of them trained pilots die.
Photo: Serbian Army, Bleriot XI
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Today in Aviation History
7/27/1983 – First flight of the Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia.
Photo: Eric Salard from Paris, France
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Today in Aviation History
7/26/2007 – First flight of the Embraer Phenom 100 (in São José dos Campos, Brazil)
Photo: Alan Lebeda
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Today in Aviation History
7/25/1947 – US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Department of Defense, and now known as the the Department of War.
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Today in Aviation History
7/24/1897 – Amelia Earhart is born on this date. We celebrate this great American's birthday!
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Today in Aviation History
7/23/1983 – Air Canada Flight 143, a Boeing 767, runs out of fuel above Manitoba because of a miscalculation; the crew successfully glides the aircraft to a safe landing at Gimli, Manitoba & becomes known as the "Gimli Glider"
Photo: FAA

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Today in Aviation History
7/22/1929 – Lufthansa uses a catapult to launch a Heinkel He 12 mail plane from the passenger liner Bremen, 249 miles out of New York, so the mail arrived before the ship reached port.
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Today in Aviation History
7/21/1969 - Neil Armstrong set his left boot on the lunar surface then said, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."
Photo: Buzz Aldrin
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Today in Aviation History
7/20/1956 – First flight of the Aerotécnica AC-12 (they put a cute little face on it back then!)
Photo: Diego Dabrio
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Today in Aviation History
7/19/1924 – First flight of the Blériot 135
Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse. Agence photographique (commanditaire)
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Today in Aviation History
7/18/1966 – Gemini 10, the first mission to complete a double rendezvous with other spacecraft, is launched from Cape Canaveral.
Photo: NASA
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Today in Aviation History
7/17/1996 – TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747, explodes in mid-air above the ocean off East Moriches, New York, killing all 230 people on board.
Photo: Alain Durand (actual aircraft)
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Today in Aviation History
7/16/1969 – Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.
Photo: NASA
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[Elle Dolinar @elle_dol]

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Today in Aviation History
7/15/1975 – The first international manned space flight occurs between the Soviet Soyuz 19 and an Apollo spacecraft.
Photo: NASA
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