Compilation of Today in Aerospace History: 24 April 2009 – Senegalese Air Sénégal International suspends all operations. 24 April 2006 - First of 4 Super Lynx 300 helicopters for South Africa made their first flights at Agusta-Westland’s Yeovil factory 24 April 2002 - First production example of the Eurocopter EC-145 formally handed over at Nimes-Garons to the French Securite Civile. 24 April 2001 - Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV makes nonstop flight to Australia in 23 hours, longest flight by unmanned aircraft 24 April 1997 - First flight of the second prototype An-70, after the 1st was lost in a mid-air collision. 24 April 1996 – McDonnell Douglas F-15 S/TMD becomes first aircraft to fly supersonic using round, pitch-and-yaw thrust-vectoring nozzles. 24 April 1990 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida on mission STS-31 carrying the Hubble Space Telescope. 24 April 1990 - USAF accepted first British Aerospace C-29A Combat Flight Inspection Aircraft from LTVs Sierra Research Division 24 April 1987 - First flight 2nd & final prototype Dornier Seastar, German turboprop-powered amphibious aircraft built largely of composites 24 April 1985 - LOT Polish Airlines launches service to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. 24 April 1982 - First flight Brändli BX-2 Cherry Swiss two-seat sport homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Max Brändli. 24 April 1981 - First flight Shenyang J-8I, high-altitude Chinese-built single-seat interceptor fighter, Improved all-weather version. 24 April 1972 - First flight Partenavia P.70 Alpha Italian two-seat light aerobatic trainer designed by Luigi Pascale 24 April 1971 – Soyuz 10 spacecraft docks with the world’s first space station, Salyut 1. Faulty hatch prevents cosmonauts entering Salyut 1 24 April 1970 – China launches its first space satellite, Dong Fang Hong I using a Long March I rocket 24 April 1969 – First flight of the Anderson Kingfisher US two-seat amphibious aircraft designed and marketed for homebuilding. 24 April 1967 - Vladimir Komarov is first in-flight spaceflight fatality as parachutes on Soyuz 1 spacecraft fail during its return to earth 24 April 1967 - First flight of the production Britten-Norman Islander. 24 April 1964 - First flight Hollsmidt 222 or HT-1 Danish light utility amateur aircraft, built in one unit. 24 April 1964 - First XB-70 structure was completed. 24 April 1962 - First flight PZL-104 Wilga (Golden Oriole) Polish designed & built short-takeoff-and-landing Civil Aviation utility aircraft 24 April 1958 - First flight SIPA S-1100, French 3 seat twin engine aircraft prototype for counter-insurgency (COIN) combat 24 April 1957 - Heli-logging pioneer Columbia Helicopters is founded in Portland, Oregon. 24 April 1951 - Albanian Air Force, Forcat Ushtarake Ajore Shqipetare (aka Albanian Peoples Army Air Force), formed with Soviet help 24 April 1950 - Grp Capt Cunningham flies de Havilland Comet from Hatfield to Khartoum and Nairobi & sets up two new point-to-point records. 24 April 1948 - First flight IS-2 Mucha (Instytut Szybownictwa – gliding institute) Polish single-seat training glider 24 April 1947 - First flight Kellett XR-10 American prototype military transport helicopter with an enclosed fuselage for the USAAF. 24 April 1946 - Winged Cargo Inc. opens an unusual freight service in which goods are carried in a Waco CG-4A glider towed by a DC-3. 24 April 1946 - First flight Yakovlev Yak-15, first-generation Soviet turbojet fighter 24 April 1946 - First flight Mikoyan-Gurevich I-300, prototype MiG-9, the Soviet Union’s first jet fighter 24 April 1946 - First flights of the first Soviet designed and built jet aircraft, MiG-9 and Yak-15 (3 hours later) are made. 24 April 1942 - Lt J. Wakefield RNVR, Supermarine Production TP killed in crash Supermarine Spitfire Mk IV BR413 in production test flight 24 April 1942 – First flight Miles Martinet prototype LR241, target tug aircraft of the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm Over 1,720 built 24-28 April 1940 - British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious evacuates the Gloster Gladiators of No. 263 Squadron RAF from Norway 24 April 1933 - First flight Grumman XJF-1 prototype JF Duck American single-engine amphibious biplane developed into J2F Duck & variants 24 April 1931 - First flight Kellett K-2 US two-seat autogiro similar to the Cierva and Pitcairn autogiros of the day 24 April 1929 - Sqn Ldr Jones-Wiliams & Flt Lt Jenkins make first non-stop flight from England to Pakistan using Fairey Long-Range Monoplane 24 April 1926 - First flight Blackburn T.R.1 Sprat British single-engine two-seat biplane, built for advanced training & deck-landing 24 April 1926 - First flight Handley Page H.P.31 British two-seat single-engined carrier based torpedo bomber and reconnaissance biplane 24 April 1919 - Junkers Flugzeug Werke AG. is formed at Dessau. 24 April 1913 - O. Gilbert flies a TK 825 km from Villacoublay, France to Vitoria, Spain in 8 hours and 23 minutes. 24 April 1912 – Billy Stark returned to Canada with pilot’s licence & new Curtis Flyer & Wife Olive became first Canadian woman passenger 24 April 1911 – Lts. M. Longmore & C. R. Samson are first British Royal Navy officers to qualify as pilots, after just two month’s training. 24 April 1910 - First flight of the Guyot-Verdier N° 3, early French pusher biplane 24 April 1909 – Universal News Agency cameraman accompanies Wilbur Wright on flight & takes first motion pictures from an airplane in flight 24 April 1882 - Future Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding is born at Moffat, Scotland
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