December 17, 1903
1903: Orville Wright makes the first sustained, controlled power airplane flight in the Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk. In the fourth and longest flight of the day, flown by Wilbur, the Wright Flyer […]
1903: Orville Wright makes the first sustained, controlled power airplane flight in the Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk. In the fourth and longest flight of the day, flown by Wilbur, the Wright Flyer […]
1995: Two 436th Airlift Wing C-5s from Dover AFB airlift gas turbine generators from Ramstein AB to Incirlik AB to provide electrical power for Kurdish refugees living in northern Iraq.
1944: Harry Crosby, company pilot, flies the Northrop MX-324, the first US rocket-powered aircraft, for the first time at Harper Dry Lake, CA.
1944: General Electric’s XJ79 turbojet engine makes its first flight in the NB-45 test aircraft over Schenectady, N.Y. This engine later develops and is tested in December 1955, becoming the J79. This engine will subsequently
1968: Gen Carl Spaatz (USAF retired) receives the Thomas D. White National Defense Award for 1968. The above book is published by the Air Force Historical Foundation.
1903: Orville Wright makes the first sustained, controlled power airplane flight in the Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk. In the fourth and longest flight of the day, flown by Wilbur, the Wright Flyer flies
1956: MACKAY TROPHY. At Edwards AFB, Capt Iven C. Kincheloe sets an altitude record for manned flight by flying the Bell X-2 rocket-powered aircraft to 126,000 feet. He later receives the Mackay Trophy.
1964: North Vietnamese torpedo boats attack US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. On 7 August, Congress authorizes President Johnson to use all measures to assist South Vietnam. That decision leads to a buildup of
1968: Gen Carl Spaatz (USAF retired) receives the Thomas D. White National Defense Award for 1968.
1960: Soviet air defenses shoot down a U-2 flying from Pakistan to Norway, capturing CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers.