Compilation of Today in Aerospace History: 22 Dec 2001 - Plot to bomb American Airlines Flt 63 Paris to Miami by shoe bomber Richard Reid foiled. Diverted to Bostons Logan Airport. 22 Dec 1998 - First flight Beechcraft Premier I, American light business jet aircraft. 22 Dec 1994 - First flight of the CHAIG Z-11 (Changhe Z-11), First indigenously-designed helicopter in China. 22 Dec 1979 - First flight Socata TB 30 Epsilon, French light military tandem two-seater with a metal airframe aircraft trainer. 22 Dec 1977 - First flight Antonov An-72 Coaler, Soviet twin jet engine transport aircraft. 22 Dec 1976 - First flight Ilyushin Il-86 (NATO reporting name: Camber), Russian medium-range wide-body jet airliner. 22 Dec 1976 - First flight Fuji/Rockwell Commander 710, joint Japanese-American, twin engine light transport aircraft 22 Dec 1974 - First flight of the Dassault Breguet Mirage F1-E (F1.M53), Single-seat all-weather multi-role fighter & ground-attack aircraft 22 Dec 1966 - First flight Northrop HL-10 (unpowered), one of five heavyweight lifting body designs flown at NASAs Flight Research Center 22 Dec 1964 - First flight Lockheed D-21, American Mach 3+ reconnaissance drone initially designed to be launched from the back of M-21 22 Dec 1964 - First flight Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, US advanced, long-range, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft. 22 Dec 1964 - First flight Potez 841, French 4-engined 18-passenger executive monoplane, re-engined 840, last aircraft to use the Potez name 22 Dec 1949 - First flight North American Aviation F-86D Sabre,American transonic jet all-weather interceptor 22 Dec 1945 - First flight Beechcraft Bonanza, American general aviation aircraft. 22 Dec 1944 - First flight Morane-Saulnier MS.470 Vanneau, French two-seat basic trainer. 22 Dec 1944 - First vertical take off of the Bachem Ba 349 Natter, German point-defence rocket powered interceptor. 22 Dec 1941 - First flight Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf, US Navy torpedo bomber, A competitor and contemporary to Grumman TBF Avenger. 22 Dec 1941 - First flight Fairey Firefly, British carrier-borne fighter and anti-submarine aircraft. 22 Dec 1940 - First flight Northrop N-3PB Nomad, single-engined American floatplane 22 Dec 1939 - First flight Caproni Ca.313, Italian twin-engine reconnaissance bomber, development of the Ca.310. 22 Dec 1939 - First flight Petlyakov VI-100 (Pe-2), Soviet twin engine dive bomber prototype aircraft, later developed as the Pe-2 22 Dec 1938 - First flight de Havilland DH.95 Flamingo, British high-wing, twin-engined monoplane passenger airliner also used by the RAF 22 Dec 1936 - First flight North American XB-21 Twin engine Bomber prototype, North American Aviations first twin-engined military aircraft 22 Dec 1934 - First night bombing in South America is done by a Macchi M.18, Italian flying boat operated by Paraguayan Gov during Chaco War 22 Dec 1934 - First flight of the Caudron C.580, French single seat trainer fighter low wing monoplane prototype 22 Dec 1930 - First flight Tupolev TB-3 (ANT-6), First cantilever wing four-engine heavy bomber. 22 Dec 1921 - First tethered lift (indoor) of the Brennan Helicopter, British early propeller-driven rotor concept. 22 Dec 1918 - Maj. Albert D. Smith complete US Armys first trans-continental flight with 4 Four Curtiss JN-4 from San Diego to Jacksonville 22 Dec 1916 - First flight Sopwith Camel, British WWI single-seat biplane fighter
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