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Los Angeles Municipal Airport on Army Day, c. 1931. The next year, the dirt runway was replaced with oiled decomposed granite which could be used year-round and two more hangars, a restaurant, office space, and a control tower were built. On June 7, 1930, the facility was dedicated and renamed Los Angeles Municipal Airport. [3]
The fire is put out in seven minutes and no nuclear explosion takes place. [4] January 25 – American Airlines begins its first jet service with a Boeing 707 flight between New York, New York, and Los Angeles, California. [5] January 31 – The United States deactivates its Ground Observer Corps.
Hughes Airwest Flight 706 The wreckage of the DC-9 at its crash site Accident Date June 6, 1971 (1971-06-06) 18:11 (6:11 PM) PDT Summary Mid-air collision Site San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, United States Total fatalities 50 Total survivors 1 First aircraft N9345, the Hughes Airwest DC-9-31 involved in the collision Type McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 Operator Hughes Airwest ...
The first flight of a jet-propelled aircraft to come to public attention was the Italian Caproni Campini N.1 motorjet prototype which flew on August 27, 1940. [9] It was the first jet aircraft recognised by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (at the time the German He 178 program was still kept secret). Campini began development of ...
Leif Viking (LN-LMP) from SAS was the first airplane to use the polar route for regular flights. Here Leif Viking becomes christened by Cyd Charisse on 18 November 1954.. Of the commercial airlines, SAS was first: their Douglas DC-6B flights between Los Angeles and Copenhagen, via Kangerlussuaq and Winnipeg, started on November 15, 1954. [4]
27 May – The Caproni Ca.1, the first aircraft manufactured entirely in Italy, is destroyed during its first flight. [14] 31 May – Glenn Curtiss wins a $10,000 prize from the New York World for flying in his Hudson Flyer from Albany, New York, to New York City in 2 hours 51 minutes, following the course of the Hudson River. [15]
The T-33 Shooting Star was used to train US Air Force pilots on jet aircraft until the early 1960s. The flight was an unforgettable glimpse into aviation history as modern fighters rule the skies.
The aircraft made its first flight a year later. The first commercial flight occurred in 1970. The 747 has an intercontinental range and a larger seating capacity than Boeing's previous aircraft. Boeing also developed hydrofoils in the 1960s. The screw-driven USS High Point was an experimental submarine hunter.