1976: Boeing’s YC-14 flies its maiden flight around Seattle.
Category Archives: History
August 9, 1944
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 […]
August 8, 1946
1946: First flight of the Convair XB-36 Peacemaker prototype 42-13570 at Fort Worth.
August 7, 1916
1916: The Wright Company and the Glenn L. Martin Company merge into the Wright Martin Aircraft Corporation.
August 6, 1945
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. […]
August 3, 1981
1981: Directed by President Reagan, USAF air traffic controllers man civilian airport facilities in the US to replace striking civilian controllers.
August 2, 1987
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 […]
August 1, 1943
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, […]
July 31, 1952
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 […]
July 30, 1971
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 […]