Compilation of Today in Aerospace History: 4 Oct 2004 – SpaceShipOne performs 2nd successful spaceflight (X2 - Flight 17P) to 112 km, thus winning the $10m Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize 4 Oct 1998 - First (free) flight of the AD & D Hummingbird, American Lifting vehicle. 4 Oct 1984 – 61yr old Elaine Yadwin lands Piper Cherokee Warrior II safely in Florida after her husband, planes pilot, dies during flight 4 Oct 1968 - First flight Tupolev Tu-154, Soviet three-engine medium-range narrow-body jet airliner. 4 Oct 1960 - Launch of Courier 1B, American satellite, worlds first active repeater satellite. 4 Oct 1959 - Launch of Luna 3, Soviet space probe sent to the neighbourhood of the Moon, first to photograph the Moons hidden surface. 4 Oct 1958 - BOAC de Havilland Comet 4 G-APDB makes first commercial transatlantic crossing by jet airliner: Heathrow to NY via Gander 4 Oct 1957 - Launch of Sputnik 1, first artificial satellite to be put into Earths orbit. 4 Oct 1957 – The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow rolls out from the Malton plant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 4 Oct 1954 - First flight SIPA S-300R, French twin seat low wing turbojet trainer prototype, claimed to be the first of its kind anywhere 4 Oct 1953 - A de Havilland Comet IA of RCAF flies non-stop from Goose Bay in Labrador to London covering the 2,460 miles in 5 hours 56 mins 4 Oct 1951 - First flight Brochet MB-80, French high wing twin seat sports aircraft with André Deschamps at controls. 4 Oct 1946 - Boeing B-29B Pacusan Dreamboat sets a world nonstop, distance record (without refuelling) of 9,500 miles, Honolulu to Cairo 4 Oct 1945 - First flight SNCASE SE-2100, French tailless, pusher configuration touring monoplane prototype with single engine & cabin for 2 4 Oct 1938 - First flight Dornier Do 217, German WWII twin engine bomber, powerful version of the Dornier Do 17. 4-11 Oct 1933 - Charles Kingsford Smith sets a new solo flight record between England and Australia of 7 days 4 hours in Percival Gull IV 4 Oct 1930 - First flight SPAD S-540, French parasol wing twin seat trainer prototype 4 Oct 1924 – First flight of the Curtiss XPW-8 A, a predecessor of the XPW-8 B, prototype in turn of the Curtiss P-1 Hawk 4 Oct 1919 – A new altitude world record of 9,622 m (31,569 feet) is set by US pilot Rudolph Schroeder, flying a Packard-Le Peré LUSAC-11. 4 Oct 1918 - First flight Curtiss NC-1 (Navy Curtiss, nicknamed Nancy boat or Nancy), American 3 engine flying boat. 4 Oct 1909 - More than a million New Yorkers watch as Wilbur Wright makes a 33-minute flight up & down the Hudson River alongside Manhattan 4 Oct 1905 - Orville Wright piloted the Wright Flyer III over Huffman Prairie covering 20 and 3/4 miles in 33 minutes 17 seconds 4 Oct 1803 - Frenchman André-Jaques Garnerin lands in Clausen with his Montgolfière, he covered a distance of 245 miles (395 km) from Paris 4 Oct 1784 - James Sadler becomes first British aeronaut when he makes a 6 mile flight at Oxford in Montgolfier-type balloon
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