1976:   Boeing’s YC-14 flies its maiden flight around Seattle.

1944:   MEDAL OF HONOR. For valorous actions while leading 33 B-26 Marauders against a railroad bridge on the Seine River, Capt Darrell R. Lindsey is […]

  1946:   First flight of the Convair XB-36 Peacemaker prototype 42-13570 at Fort Worth.

1916:   The Wright Company and the Glenn L. Martin Company merge into the Wright Martin Aircraft Corporation.

Flying his “Enola Gay” B-29 from Tinian Island, Lt Col Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. and his crew drop the atomic bomb “Little Boy” on Hiroshima. […]

  1981:   Directed by President Reagan, USAF air traffic controllers man civilian airport facilities in the US to replace striking civilian controllers.

1987:   The 552d Airborne Warning and Control Wing from Tinker AFB completes its 5,000th mission for the Elf One deployment to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Elf […]

1943:   Operation TIDAL WAVE-Ploesti Raid. Five Medals of Honor were received for Ploesti, three posthumously, more than for any other mission in WW II: Baker, […]

1952:   PROJECT HOP-A-LONG. Two Military Air Transport Service Sikorsky UH-19b helicopters complete the first trans-Atlantic helicopter flight. They touch down five times en route between […]

1971: The last F-100 leaves Vietnam for the CONUS. Its departure ends a combat employment which began in 1964 and produced 360,283 combat sorties with […]