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2010 – Wind Jet Flight 243, operated by Airbus A319-132 EI-EDM, [1] landed short of the runway at Punta Raisi Airport, Palermo, Italy after encountering a thunderstorm and windshear on approach. The aircraft was substantially damaged when it impacted the localiser. Both main undercarriage sets collapsed and the aircraft was evacuated by the ...
1991 – First flight of the British Aerospace Jetstream 41; 1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a Cessna 172 over San Diego, California, United States; all 135 aboard the airliner, both pilots of the Cessna, and 7 people on the ground are killed, making this the worst aviation disaster in California history.
Propeller. Patented a design for a steam-powered “flying machine” (1889, and refined in 1891); [131] successful track-tethered test of a steam-engine powered biplane (Jul 1894); [132] designed and constructed a biplane that never flew (1910) [133] John Alexander Douglas McCurdy. 2 Aug 1886. 25 Jun 1961.
1966 - A Thor-Burner launches a DMSP satellite; 1973 - A Proton-K/D launches Luna 21.; 1986 - A Soyuz-U rocket launches a Zenit-8 spy satellite.; 1990 - An EVA is performed by the crew of Mir to install star tracking equipment.
The Wright Military Flyer aboard a wagon in 1908. French reconnaissance balloon L'Intrépide of 1796, the oldest existing flying device, in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna. Leonardo da Vinci 's ornithopter design. The history of aviation extends for more than 2000 years, from the earliest forms of aviation such as kites and attempts at ...
This is a timeline of aviation history, and a list of more detailed aviation timelines. The texts in the diagram are clickable links to articles. The texts in the diagram are clickable links to articles.
Cosmonautics Day (Russian: День Космона́втики, romanized: Den' Kosmonávtiki) is an anniversary celebrated in Russia and some other post-Soviet states on 12 April. [1][2] In 2011, at the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly, 12 April was declared as the International Day of Human Space Flight in dedication of the ...
U.S. Army Captain Meriwether Lewis and 2nd Lt. William Clark — plus the Corps of Discovery — returned to St. Louis after epic travels to the Pacific Ocean on this day in history, Sept. 23, 1806.