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[@ron_eisele](/creator/twitter/ron_eisele)
"Modern flying reproductions of WWI SE5a's Masterton New Zealand"  
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"28 July 1973. First flight of the Boeing YQM-94 B-Gull (Compass Cope B). American developmental reconnaissance drone that could operate at high altitudes for up to XX hours to perform surveillance communications relay or atmospheric sampling"  
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"Born XX July 1891 in Mount Stanley Queensland XX victory Australian ace Major Roderic Stanley "Brguet" Dallas DSC and Bar"  
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"11 July 1944. First flight of the third prototype Vickers Windsor (Type 461) NK136. British four-engine heavy bomber. Powered by four 1635 horsepower Merlin XX engines. Designed by Barnes Wallis and Rex Pierson at Vickers-Armstrong Brooklands"  
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"Hauptmann Godwin Brumowski. XX July 1889 X June 1936 was the most successful Austro-Hungarian Air Force ace of WW1 with XX credited air victories"  
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"30 July 1940. Death of Ademaro Nicoletti Altimari (b. X April 1903). Italian parachute pioneer and WWII pilot in the crash of his bomber after engine failure on take-off. Killed attempting to save his crew from the fire of the wreckage. Awarded the Gold Medal for Military Valour"  
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"Avro Shackleton British long-range maritime patrol aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and South African Air Force. Developed from the Avro Lincoln bomber itself had been a development of the Avro Lancaster bomber. Seen here with a Hawker Siddeley Nimrod"  
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"27 July 1955. El Al Flight XXX (LondonParisViennaTel Aviv) Lockheed L-049 Constellation 4X-AKC was shot down by two Bulgarian MiG-15 over Bulgarian airspace killing all aboard X crew and XX passengers. The deadliest loss of a Constellation up to that time"  
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"Dassault Rafale French twin-engine canard delta wing multirole fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation"  
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"General Motors/Fisher P-75 Eagle fighter aircraft designed by Fisher Body Division of General Motors. Development started in September 1942 in response to United States Army Air Forces requirement for a fighter possessing an extremely high rate of climb"  
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"30 July 1970. Operation Rimon XX. Aerial battle between Israeli Air Force and Soviet fighter pilots stationed in Egypt during the War of Attrition. X Soviet flown MiG-21s were downed by Israeli F-4 Phantoms and Mirage IIIs. One of the final engagements of the War of Attrition"  
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"26 July 2010. The sole Sikorsky X2 American experimental high-speed compound helicopter with coaxial rotors unofficially broke the speed record for rotorcraft achieving a maximum XXX knots (259 mph) in a one-hour test flight"  
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"25 July 2003. Death of Ludwig Blkow (b. XX June 1912). German aeronautical pioneer. In January 1943 he was appointed head of the Messerschmitt Bf XXX development office in Vienna. Post-war he formed Blkow GmbH in Ottobrunn which became Messerschmitt-Blkow-Blohm (MBB)"  
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"23 July 1958. The first prototype Brguet Br.1001 Taon French jet strike fighter aircraft powered by a Bristol Orpheus B-Or-3 turbojet broke its own international speed record for a 620-mile closed circuit achieving XXXXXX mph. Flown by Bernard Witt"  
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"26 April 1935. Death of Kthe Paulus (b. XX December 1868) German aeronaut aviatrix and parachute pioneer. Inventor of the first collapsible parachute"  
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"25 July 1944. Supermarine Seafire L.III of RNAS XXX Squadron on the deck of HMS Khedive entering the Grand Harbour of Valletta in Malta"  
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"Supermarine Spitfire Mk XII code EB-B MB882"  
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"28 July 1965. Prince Philip at the controls of the royal helicopter"  
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"15 July 1939. American adventurer Clara Adams landed back in New York the first woman to complete a round world flight (as passenger). Traveling on Pan American Deutsche Lufthansa KLM and United Airlines she circled the globe in XX days and XX hours"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1944879426149261763) 2025-07-14 21:59:23 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Stampe et Vertongen SV.5 Tornado was a military trainer aircraft designed and built in Belgium in the 1930s. It saw service with the Belgian Air Force and Latvian Air Force"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948146090865275367) 2025-07-23 22:19:57 UTC 61.3K followers, XXX engagements


"24 July 1938. Colombian Air Force Lieutenant Csar Abadia performing aerobatics at Campo de Marte Santa Ana Colombia crashed his Curtiss Hawk II XXX after misjudging a gap between two grandstands impacting the Presidential stand. XX killed 100+ injured"  
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"Royal Air Force SEPECAT Jaguar GR.3 fighter aircraft (s/n XZ114 XZ117) from No.6 Squadron RAF Coltishall East Anglia England take off from St. Louis Airport Illinois USA on X March 2006"  
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"17 July 1989. First flight of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit also known as AV-1 / Air Vehicle One. American heavy bomber with low observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defences and deploy both conventional and nuclear weapons"  
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"28 July 1944. First flight of the de Havilland DH.103 Hornet prototype RR915. Land and naval-based fighter aircraft powered by two 2070 hp Rolls-Royce Merlin XXX / XXX (left-hand and right-hand rotation) V-12 liquid-cooled piston engines"  
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"25 July 2000. Air France Flight 4590 Concorde F-BTSC caught fire after take-off and crashed at Gonesse France killing all XXX passengers nine crew and four people on the ground. The cause was debris left on the runway by a Continental Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30"  
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"Prototype Sea-Hornet F.20 on the aircraft carrier HMS Ocean April 1945"  
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"Killed in a flying accident XX July 1943 in Madagascar X victory French Air Service ace with N38 Adjudant Gustave Douchy"  
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"28 July 2011. Asiana Airlines Flight XXX Boeing 747-48EF HL7604 crashed to the sea near Jeju Island after experiencing an in-flight cargo fire. Both pilots the only two people on board were killed"  
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"28 July 1953. Two Boeing XXX B-47 Stratojet bombers of the 305th Air Mobility Wing set speed records; one flew from RCAF Goose Bay Labrador to RAF Fairford England in 4:14 hours and the other flew from Limestone AFB Maine to RAF Fairford in 4:45 hours"  
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"Born XX July 1912. Lieutenant General Carlos Bayo Alessandri (d. X February 1979). XX victory Spanish Nationalist flying ace of the civil war. Volunteered for combat in Russia with 1a Escuadrilla Azul part of the German LuftFlotte X and later in the Spanish Air Force"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949256499806736387) 2025-07-26 23:52:19 UTC 61.3K followers, XXX engagements


"18 July 1918. Vizefeldwebel Willi Gabriel of Jasta XX downed four allied aeroplanes in a single day. Three SPADS and a Brguet 14"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1945920510186950916) 2025-07-17 18:56:17 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Consolidated XP4Y (company Model 31) was an American twin-engine long-range maritime patrol flying boat built by Consolidated Aircraft for the United States Navy. Only one was built and a production order for XXX was cancelled"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948146489005400258) 2025-07-23 22:21:32 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"17 July 1924. Five victory French ace Georges Pelletier d'Oisy completed a flight from Paris to Tokyo in Breguet 14A2 No.2097 he had borrowed from the Republic of China government. The trip was XXX hours in the air over XX days"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1945557857790767232) 2025-07-16 18:55:14 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"24 July 1897. Birth of Amelia Mary Earhart (disappeared X July 1937). American aviation pioneer record breaker and author. First woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948139130820472938) 2025-07-23 21:52:18 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Major Roderic Stanley Dallas DSC and Bar. XX July 1891 X June 1918"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1950241654792974373) 2025-07-29 17:06:58 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"27 July 1931. First flight of the de Havilland DH.72. British large three-engine biplane bomber prototype. Powered by three XXX hp Bristol Jupiter XFS supercharged 9-cylinder radial engines"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949262116650917998) 2025-07-27 00:14:38 UTC 61.3K followers, XXX engagements


"SE5a D3511. Flown by Major Roderick Stanley Dallas (DSO DSC & Bar C de G). Australian ace of WW1"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1950241750200750440) 2025-07-29 17:07:21 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Lieutnant Alfred Niederhoff (left) at Jasta XX with Commanding Officer Oblt. Fritz Heising (centre) and Ltn.d.R. Eberhard Voss (right). The Albatros far right is Leutnant Niederhoff's personal machine. The furthest belongs to Eberhard Voss"  
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"19 July 1954. First flight of the Dassault Mystere IVN. French two-seat all-weather interceptor version of the Mystere IV fighter-bomber. Equipped with the AN/APG-33 radar powered by a Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet and armed with 5568 mm Matra rockets in a retractable belly tray"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1946322441011167632) 2025-07-18 21:33:25 UTC 61.3K followers, XXX engagements


"29 July 1960. Death of Mary Lady Bailey DBE (ne Westenra; b. X December 1890). The first woman to fly across the Irish Sea. On X July 1927 she set a world's height record of 17283 ft. She made a return solo flight from Croydon to Cape Town 1928/9"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949905579817808172) 2025-07-28 18:51:32 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"25 June 1918. U.S. Army Air Service pilot Harold Ross Harris (20 December 1895-28 July 1988) and co-pilot George Lewis commanded the first American owned & crewed aircraft (Caproni Ca.5) to cross the Alps. Flying a from Turin Italy to Lyon then on to Paris where they crashed"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948453045781889531) 2025-07-24 18:39:41 UTC 61.3K followers, XXX engagements


"28 July 1929. French aviatrix Maryse Basti set a FAI world record. Flying a Caudron C.109 parasol-winged strut-braced monoplane F-AHFE she achieved a flight duration of XX hours XX minutes XX seconds at Le Bourget"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949589364641821155) 2025-07-27 21:55:00 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"29 July 1957. USAF C-124 Globemaster aircraft from Dover Air Force Base Delaware was carrying X Mark X nuclear bombs over the Atlantic Ocean when it experienced a loss of power. The crew jettisoned X nuclear bombs to protect their safety which were never recovered"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949592416404504576) 2025-07-27 22:07:08 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"19 July 1973. First flight of the Colomban MC-10 (F-WTXJ) 'Cri-Cri' smallest twin-engine manned aircraft in the world. Piloted by Robert Buisson. Engines mounted on pylons to the nose of the aircraft in tractor configuration. Powered by two Rowena engines of X hp each"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1946323805384683798) 2025-07-18 21:38:50 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"27 July 1960. Death of Captain John Richard Crane advance pilot and narrator for the US Aerobatic demonstration team 'Thunderbirds'. Killed during a solo proficiency flight in a North American F-100C-1-NA Super Sabre 53-1740 at Nellis AFB Nevada"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949266665688187179) 2025-07-27 00:32:43 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"26 July 1957. First flight of the Breguet 1001 Taon. French prototype single-seat jet strike fighter aircraft. Powered by a Bristol Orpheus BOr.3 engine"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1948834628225376290) 2025-07-25 19:55:57 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Clip from WW1 film 'Tails Up France' shows how airmen were trained and how they and their aircraft worked"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949599951186477373) 2025-07-27 22:37:04 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit. First flight XX July 1989"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1945616141700747356) 2025-07-16 22:46:50 UTC 61.3K followers, XXX engagements


"27 July 2010. Lufthansa Cargo Flight 8460 McDonnell Douglas MD-11F D-ALCQ crashed on landing at King Khalid International Airport Riyadh Saudi Arabia Killing both crewmembers. Touching down too hard it to bounced three times on the runway causing the aft fuselage to rupture"  
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"27 July 1942. Death of Furio Niclot Doglio (b. XX April 1908). Italian test pilot record breaker and WWII fighter pilot shot down over Malta in his Macchi C202 by Canadian fighter ace George Beurling who four victories on that single day"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949263249150456313) 2025-07-27 00:19:08 UTC 61.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Killed in action XX July 1917 X victory French Air Service ace Capitaine Alfred Victor Robert Auger"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949561635447750844) 2025-07-27 20:04:49 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"29 July 1939. Deutsche Lufthansa Focke Wulf Fw-200-V1 S-1 'Condor' D-ACON landed in Bangkok Siam after flying from Flugplatz Berlin-Staaken inaugurating a regular service"  
![@ron_eisele Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::3195245890.png) [@ron_eisele](/creator/x/ron_eisele) on [X](/post/tweet/1949904391575597536) 2025-07-28 18:46:49 UTC 61.4K followers, XXX engagements


"26 July 1896. Birth of Major Alford Joseph Williams (d. XX June 1958). USN USMC and USAAC pioneering aviator. 1930s Naval speed record breaker developed dive bombing techniques for the Marines. 1940s advocate for an independent Air Force. Volunteer in the Army Air Corps"  
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"26 April 1929. French aviator (right) Joanny Burtin (3 October 1893-19 August 1977) set an FAI altitude record of 26531 ft. with a one-ton load in Farman 12We powered Breguet XX GR demonstrating fuel consumption drops considerably at high altitudes along with wind resistance"  
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"1918 RAF XX Squadron SE5a of Australian ace Major Roderic Stanley "Brguet" Dallas DSC and Bar"  
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"P-39Q 42-19597 P-39 flying with the Commemorative Air Force in San Marcos Texas. Registered N6968 it was recovered from a hulk used as a playground in New Mexico"  
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"30 July 1962. First flight of the Fairchild YC-123H Provider 54-2956 with two auxiliary General Electric CJ610 jet engines installed on the underwing gondolas. Prototype version of the American troop and cargo transport"  
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"Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler fires flares"  
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"28 July 2010. USAF Boeing C-17 Globemaster III 00-0173 crash resulted in the deaths of all four crew members: Major Aaron Malone (pilot) Major Michael Freyholtz (co-pilot) Lt. Col. Paul F. "Rocky" Kippenberger (safety observer) and MSgt. Thomas Cicardo (loadmaster)"  
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"20 July 1951. First flight of the Breguet Br XXX 'Provence'. French double-deck four engine transport aircraft powered by four 2400 hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800-CA18 engines. It entered service with Air France during autumn 1952"  
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"30 July 1971. All Nippon Airways Flight XX Boeing 727-281 JA8329 collided with a JASDF F-86 Sabre fighter 92-7932 over Shizukuishi Iwate Prefecture. All XXX on the airliner were killed the JSDF pilot parachuted to safety"  
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"25 July 1977. First flight of Aero Design DG-1. American racing prototype built to break the world airspeed record for piston-engine aircraft. Single-seat with two XXX hp Mazda RX-3 rotary engines installed one driving a tractor propeller the other a pusher"  
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"North American F-82 Twin Mustang was the last American piston-engine fighter ordered into production by the United States Air Force. Based on the P-51 Mustang the F-82 was originally designed as a long-range escort fighter in World War II"  
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"27 July 1943. XXX RAF bombers attacked Hamburg with a loss of XX aircraft. Atmospheric conditions created a self-propagating tornadic firestorm with winds of XXX mph and flames reaching 1000 feet altitude resulting in one of the most destructive air raids in history"  
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"28 July 1945. A B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building between the 79th and 80th floors. One engine penetrated the building and landed in a neighbouring block the other went down an elevator shaft. Fourteen people were killed"  
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"26 July 1973. First flight of the Sikorsky S-69 (73-21941) military designation XH-59. American experimental compound co-axial helicopter developed as the demonstrator of the Advancing Blade Concept (ABC)"  
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"Spitfire V (tropical) of RAF XXX Squadron and XX Squadron. Italy 1944"  
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"25 July 1939. A Deutsche Lufthansa Focke Wulf Fw-200 'Condor' took off from Berlin to Bangkok in Siam inaugurating a regular service"  
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"Pilot Officer Walter Sinclair Kennedy of XX Sqn RAF inspects the damage to his Vickers Wellesley Mk.I (K7715) 'KU-H' at Agordat Eritrea"  
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"Spitfire Mk.XXI of XXX Squadron Biggin Hill 1947"  
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"25 July 1944. Death of James Cairn 'Bud' Mars The Curtiss Daredevil (b. X March 1875). American aviation pioneer who on XX December 1910 made the first aeroplane flight in Hawaii (Curtiss B18 biplane Skylark)"  
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"Died aged XX on XX July 1951 in Ehrwald Austria XX victory ace with Flik 51J Feldwebel Eugen Bnsch"  
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"30 July 1954. First flight of the Grumman F-11 Tiger prototype XF9F-9 single-seat carrier-based United States Navy fighter aircraft. Powered by a single Wright J65-W-18 turbojet"  
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"26 July 1944. North American Aviation P-51D-5-NA Mustang 44-13410 E2 C. flown by group commander Colonel Thomas J.J. Christian Jr. and named Lou IV after his wife Marjorie Lou Ashcroft Christian"  
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"27 July 1996. The General Dynamics F-111F "Aardvark" attack aircraft were retired from USAF service with a ceremony at their original manufacturing site in Fort Worth Texas"  
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"The original Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis while lowered from its suspended position in the National Air and Space Museum for renovation work in 2005"  
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"28 July 1967. Death of Karl Wendell Richter (b. X October 1942). USAF pilot killed ejecting from his F-105 in Vietnam. He was the youngest pilot in that conflict to shoot down a MiG in air-to-air combat and flown XXX missions over North Vietnam more than any other airman"  
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"27 July 1941. First flight of the Westland P.12 Lysander Delanne. British prototype fighter with twin tailed Delanne tandem wing and 4-gun Nash & Thomson power-operated tail gun turret replacing the empennage"  
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"Spitfire Mk IXB MH809 LO-P of XXX Squadron RAF at Ford aerodrome Sussex"  
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"Spitfire XIVs of XX Sqn flown by Flt. Lt. Peter Cowell & F.O. Wally Jallands intercept Focke-Wulf 190D-9s of 15/JG XX "Mlders" X May 1945"  
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"Pilot Officer Jerry Smith RCAF lands his Spitfire on the deck of USS Wasp off the coast of Malta"  
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"30 July 1863. Birth of Henry Ford (d. X April 1947). American industrialist founder of the Ford Motor Company who entered the aviation business during WWI and produced the famous Ford Trimotor. In the late 20s Ford was ranked as Americas largest commercial aircraft builder"  
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"30 July 1959. First flight of the Northrop F-5A (US Air Force designation YF-5A). Primarily designed for a day air superiority role the aeroplane was also a capable ground-attack platform"  
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"Born XX July 1896 in Toronto Ontario Canada XX victory ace Captain Arthur Bradfield Fairclough MC"  
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"XCG-16 was a military transport/assault glider ordered by the Army Air Force from General Airborne Transport Co. for competition against the Waco CG-13A"  
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"Albatros C.III C.766/16 of Oberleutnant Erwin Bhme Kasta XX at Kavel aerodrome on the Russian front August 1916"  
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"Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express was a transport derivative of the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber built during World War II for the United States Army Air Force"  
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"Erwin Bohme achieves his first victory. Flying an Albatros C.III with Kasta XX during the morning of X August 1916 he downed a Nieuport XX over Radzyse. Art by Ivan Berryman"  
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"26 July 1958. Killed in a Lockheed F-104A-15-LO Starfighter flying accident while acting as a chase plane for another F-104A at Edwards Air Force Base U.S. Air Force test pilot Capt. Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr"  
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"28 July 1944. First flight of the de Havilland DH.103 Hornet prototype RR915. Land and naval-based fighter aircraft powered by two 2070 hp Rolls-Royce Merlin XXX / XXX (left-hand and right-hand rotation) V-12 liquid-cooled piston engines"  
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"Royal Air Force SEPECAT Jaguar in arctic camouflage"  
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"Died age XX on XX July 1973 in Paris X victory French Brguet observer ace with BR132 Lieutenant Eugene Weismann"  
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"28 July 1915. First flight of the prototype Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.12 British single-seat aeroplane developed from the B.E.2c"  
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"Fairey Aviation Company Gannet. British carrier-borne aircraft developed for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. A low wing monoplane with tricycle undercarriage and a crew of three with a double turboprop engine driving two contra-rotating propellers"  
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"27 July 1989. Korean Air Flight XXX McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 HL7328 crashed while attempting to land in heavy fog and reduced visibility in Tripoli Libya killing XX over XXX and X on ground"  
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"RCAF P.O. Jerry Smith's Spitfire on the USS Wasp CV-7. Off the coast of Malta"  
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"Two Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) English Electric Canberra bombers fly in close formation off the coast of Malaya most likely circa 1965"  
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"27 July 1896. Birth of Air Vice Marshal Sir Robert Allingham George KCMG KCVO KBE CB MC KStJ. (d. XX September 1967). Australian WWI bomber pilot senior officer in the Royal Air Force and Governor of South Australia"  
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"Killed in action along with Captain Laurence Minot MC on XX July 1917 Second Lieutenant Sydney John Leete"  
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"JAS XX Gripen entered service with the Swedish Air Force in June 1996. The J XX Tunnan entered service XX years earlier"  
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"Born XX July 1895 in Ipswich Suffolk XX victory Brisfit pilot ace with XX Squadron Captain Stanley Harry S. Wallage MC"  
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"22 July 1908. The Breguet-Richet Gyroplane No.2 rose vertically to a height of 4.5m and flew for a short period of time. apparently Powered by a 55hp Renault engine driving two forward-tilting 2-blade rotors. Damaged during landing on XX September rebuilt as the No.2bis"  
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"Saab XX Lansen a two-seat transonic military aircraft designed and manufactured by Saab from 1955 to 1960 for the Swedish Air Force"  
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"21 July 1961. Alaska Airlines Flight XXX Douglas DC-6A N6118C operating under contract with MATS (Military Air Transport Service) crashed and caught fire on landing at Shemya AFB Alaska killing all X on board"  
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"29 July 1937. First flight of the Lockheed Model XX Super Electra X17382 also known as the Lockheed XX. Powered by two Pratt & Whitney R-1690 S1E-G Hornet engines. US civil passenger and cargo aircraft. Flown by Lockheed Chief Engineer Marshall Headle"  
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"27 July 1947. First flight of the Bristol Type XXX Sycamore (VL-958). First British-designed helicopter to fly and serve with the Royal Air Force. Powered by a single Pratt & Whitney 450hp Wasp Junior radial engine"  
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"RFC personnel get a lesson in rigging 1917. In 1918 the trade Rigger (Aeroplane) was one of the most common trades in the new Royal Air Force"  
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"Hawker Typhoon showing the elegant profile of the propeller blade"  
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"23 July 1928. First flight of the third Breguet Bre XX TR 'Bidon' (Later XX TF Super Bidon) French 2-3 seat sesquiplane aircraft"  
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"23 July 1970. The first McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 (46500/N10DC) was rolled out at Long Beach California subsequently used for flight testing and FAA certification. After XXX test flights it joined American Airlines on XX August 1972 as N101AA"  
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"The Dawn Patrol - SE5a XX Sqn. RFC France 1918 by Gerald Coulson"  
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"Lockheed C-121 Constellation military transport version of the Lockheed Constellation"  
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"1 June 1918. XX victory Australian ace Major Roderic Stanley "Brguet" Dallas DSC in SE5a D3530 of XX Squadron RAF encountered X members of Jasta XX and was killed in action shot down south east of Lens by Leutnant Johannes Werner in Fokker DR.I. 583/17. Art by Steve Anderson"  
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"30 July 1961. American Airlines first Boeing 707-123B N7501A at Chicago OHare"  
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"28 July 1976. Czechoslovak Airlines Flight XXX Ilyushin Il-18B OK-NAB crashed into the Zlat Piesky Lake while attempting to land in Bratislava killing XX over XX. The crew inadvertently set thrust reversal at the no. X and no. X inboard engines while still airborne"  
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"28 July 1943 - American Airlines Flight XX Douglas DC-3-178 'Flagship Ohio' NC16014 crashed after loss of control due to severe turbulence and violent downdrafts on the Louisville-Nashville sector about XXX miles west of Trammel Kentucky Killing XX over 22"  
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"28 July 2010. USAF Boeing C-17 Globemaster III 00-0173 preparing for Elmendorf's Arctic Thunder Air Show stalled and crashed on Elmendorf AFB in Alaska killing all X crew"  
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"15 July 1884. Birth of Antnio Jacinto da Silva de Brito Paes (d. XX February 1934). Portuguese aviation pioneer who in 1924 commanded Brguet Type XX Bn. X Ptria flying from Vila Nova Milfontes Portugal to Macau to demonstrate air access between Portugal and her colonies"  
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"27 July 1972. First flight of the McDonnell Douglas YF-15A-1 (F-15) Eagle. American twin-engine all-weather tactical fighter. Piloted by Irving L. Burrows from Edwards Air Force Base"  
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"Captured Focke-Wulf Fw-190 Wrger being flight tested in the United States probably out of Wright Field near Dayton Ohio 1944"  
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"This Picture of Boston USA from 2000 feet circa 1860 Is the worlds oldest surviving aerial photo. Taken by James Wallace Black from Samuel Kings hot-air balloon the Queen of the Air"  
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"28 July 1910. Birth of Clive Robertson 'Killer' Caldwell. Leading Australian WWII fighter ace highest-scoring P-40 pilot from any air force and the highest-scoring Allied pilot in North Africa who also served in the Southwest Pacific Theatre"  
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"28 July 2007. Death of Jim LeRoy (b. X April 1961). American aerobatics pilot after he had crashed at the Vectren Dayton Air Show at the Dayton International Airport during a performance in his S2S Bulldog II"  
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"28 July 1935. First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress NX13372 (Boeing Model 299). American four-engine heavy bomber aircraft. Flown by Boeing Chief Test Pilot Leslie Ralph (Les) Tower and Louis Waite"  
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"10 July 1964. First flight of the Dassault 'Mystre' XX F-WLKB conducted from BordeauxMrignac Airport Gironde France. French business jet. Modified version of ' Mystre' XX XX Falcon for the US market. Powered by two General Electric CF700-2B engines"  
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"27 July 2002. Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27UB of the Ukrainian Falcons crashed during an air show at Sknyliv Airfield near Lviv Ukraine killing XX and injuring XXX. It was the deadliest air show accident in history"  
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"The Hanriot HD. X flown Flavio by Baracchini on display at the Italian Air Force Museum near Bracciano Rome"  
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"22 July 1944. Hawker Hurricane PZ865 Mk.IIc"  
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"Hurricane Mk X P3395 JX-B the personal aircraft of Sergeant Pilot Arthur Clowes DFM of X Sqn. during the Battle of Britain"  
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