2008 - Airmen from the 23rd Wing at Moody AFB, Valdosta, Georgia, performed a maritime rescue in the Gulf of Mexico that saved six lives.
2009 - A firefighting airplane crashed on its way to a New Mexico blaze this morning around 10 AM local time.The aircraft, a Lockheed P2V-7 (P2H) Neptune (N442NA), was flying from Missoula International Airport (KMSO) in Missoula, Montana to Alamogordo-White Sands Municipal Airport (KALM) in Alamogordo, New Mexico, when it crashed in northwestern Utah for unknown reasons. All three people aboard the Neptune Aviation Services aircraft perished.
2008 - The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, IFPTE, an AFL-CIO affiliated labor union whose membership includes engineers, scientists and technicians at the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, NASA and Boeing, has endorsed Barack Obama.
The 85,000-member organization, represented by its Executive Council voted without opposition to endorse the Senator.
2008 - Passengers arriving in the U.K. will be met by automated face scanners starting this summer.
The system will only work for UK and EU citizens with biometric passports--everyone else will have to stick to the regular immigration checks. Officials say the machines can do a better job at recognizing people than humans, though they also mention that: The technology will err on the side of caution and is likely to generate a small number of "false negatives"--innocent passengers rejected because the machines cannot match their appearance to the records
2007 - A U.S. bankruptcy court today gave Delta Air Lines the go-ahead to exit Chapter 11 on April 30, ending a year and a half in bankruptcy.
One of the first major decisions that Delta will have to make after exiting bankruptcy is to pick a new chief executive.
Chief Financial Officer Edward Bastian and Chief Operating Officer Jim Whitehurst are seen as front runners.
Since filing for Chapter 11 in September 2005, Delta has slashed about USD$1 billion from labor costs, reduced capacity in the hard-fought domestic U.S. market, and boosted service to markets in Latin America and the Middle East, as part of USD$3 billion turnaround plan.
2008 - South Korea will buy 21 fighter jets from Boeing by 2012, bringing to 61 the total number of its next-generation fighters, the defence ministry said today.
South Korea has already purchased 40 F-15Ks at a cost of 4.6 billion dollars. The last 10 of the 40 jets will be delivered later this year. The new aircraft will be delivered between 2010 and 2012.
2007 - Foreign travel to the United States is getting to be such a hassle that many tourists are going to other countries instead.
2005 - SOYUZ Spacecraft Lands With Three Astronauts.
Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, U.S. astronaut Leroy Chiao, and Italy's Roberto Vittori came back to Earth aboard a Soyuz spacecraft early Monday after completing a mission on the orbiting International Space Station (ISS). The Soyuz capsule made a soft landing in darkness near the town of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan at 02:08 am Moscow time (2208 GMT Sunday).
2002 - SOYUZ TM-34 (RUSSIA) Launch delayed from April 10, 22 and 17. Soyuz TM-34 was launched on ISS Mission 4S with Commander Yuri Gidzenko of Rosaviakosmos, Flight Engineer is Roberto Vittori of ESA, and Tourist Mark Shuttleworth, a South African citizen.
The flight was also referred to as ISS Mission 4S, the EP-3 visiting crew flight, and even as Soyuz 4 by NASA. Soyuz TM-34 docked with the nadir port on the Zarya module on April 27. The 4S flight docked at the Zarya nadir port on April 27, and the crew would return to Earth in the old TM-33 vehicle, leaving TM-34 as the active ISS rescue vehicle.
2000 - Launched Progress-M1-2 cargo vehicle for Mir space station supply.
1999 - NATO airstrikes in Yugoslavia destroyed the last bridge in Novi Sad along with other targets in northern and central Serbia.
1999 - In Iraq U.S. warplanes struck air defense sites in the northern no fly zone after being threatened by radar.
1996 - First flight of the Yak-130 trainer aircraft.
1990 - SPACE MILESTONE: HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE (U.S.) deployed in space.
The $2.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope was Seven years behind schedule and nearly $2 billion over budget, it was plagued with problems from the start. The primary mirror was flawed, blurring images and substantially reduced the telescope's ability to see distant stars or objects. Subsequently, a special investigative panel criticized NASA's handling of the project. However, the problem with the mirror was adjusted and image quality corrected with a specially designed lens installed during a later space mission.
In 2008, the Maryland-based Space Telescope Science Institute released 59 new images from the Hubble Space Telescope to celebrate the 18th anniversary of its launch.
In 2013, the James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to replace Hubble.
1990 - Boeing delivered the 200th re-engined KC-135R to the 340th Air Refueling Group, Altus AFB, Oklahoma.
This program replaced the Pratt & Whitney J57 engines on 237 KC-135s with CFM International F-108 engines.
1983 - SPACE MILESONE: PIONEER 10 (U.S.) crossed the orbit of Pluto, the outermost planet, to continue its voyage into the universe beyond our solar system.
1973 - Eighth launch of USSR naval spy satellite with nuclear power station onboard ended with accident of Tsiklon-2/SL-11 booster.
1972 - The world straight-line distance record for a single-seat sailplane is set by German Hans Werner Grosse, who sails 907 miles (1,460 km) in a Sleicher AS-W12 sailplane.
1972 - EVA Apollo 16-5
1971 - The last C-130A in the Pacific Air Forces, assigned to the 374th Tactical Airlift Wing at Naha AB, Okinawa, flew to the states for an assignment with a reserve or Air National Guard unit.
1970 - The 175th Tactical Fighter Group in Baltimore, Maryland, received an A-37B Dragonfly , the Air National Guard's first.
The Dragonfly flew for the first time in September 1967. A total of 577 had been delivered by 1977, when production eded. A-37Bs are operated by five air forces.
1969 - U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command decided to disperse its bomber and tanker aircraft to improve the survivability of its alert forces.
1967 - The first jet-assisted C-123K Provider assault transports arrived at Tan Son Nhut AB, Vietnam for duty with the 19th Air Commando Squadron.
The older C-123Bs began returning to the United States for modification on April 27.
1967 - Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois died at Andrews AFB, Maryland. at the age of 87.
He was the first person to fly an Army dirigible; first military observer on a cross-country flight with Orville Wright; first military man to teach himself to fly; one of two Americans to first use a plane in combat; and the first Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Air Corp to be a military aviator.
1962 - RANGER (U.S.) spacecraft crash lands on the far side of Moon.1961 - Frank De Winne, Belgian physician astronaut ISS EP-4., is born in Gent, Belgium.
1961 - Mercury-Atlas 3 (MA-3) rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral in an attempt to orbit the spacecraft with a mechanical astronaut aboard.
After lift-off, the launch vehicle failed to roll to a 70 degree heading and to pitch over into the proper trajectory. The abort-sensing system activated the escape rockets prior to the launch vehicle's destruction by the range safety officer after approximately 40 seconds of flight that had attained an altitude of 16,400 feet. The spacecraft then coasted up to 24,000 feet, deployed its parachutes, and landed in the Atlantic Ocean 2,000 yards north of the launch pad. The spacecraft was recovered and was found to have incurred only superficial damage; it was then shipped to McDonnell for refitting.
1961 - Frank De Winne, Belgian physician astronaut, ESA Group 3--1998, is born in Gent, Belgium.
Part of visiting crew of three astronauts (two Russians and one Belgian) to automatically dock with the International Space Station (ISS). This was the first flight of the new Soyuz-TMA model. It was to remain parked at the ISS as the escape craft, relieving the Soyuz TM-34. The crew conducted several microgravity experiments on the ISS during their 10-day stay before returning in Soyuz TM-34.
1961 - Vice President Johnson made head of the National Aeronautics and Space Council.
President Kennedy signed legislation making the Vice President of the United States the presiding officer of the National Aeronautics and Space Council.
1956 - The X-2 flown by test pilot Frank K. Everest, Jr., completed its first supersonic flight, mach 1.4 at 15,250 m.
1953 - Col. Joseph J. Preston, 91st Strategic Reconnaissance wing commander, flew the first RB-47 to Lockbourne AFB, Ohio.
1947 - First U.S. airplane scale model rocket test.
NACA Langley's PARD launched its first rocket-propelled model of a complete airplane for performance evaluation (AF XF-91), at Wallops Island. This was followed by flight tests of models of practically all Air Force and Navy supersonic airplanes.
1945 - Eighth Air Force made its last attack on an industrial target in WW II, when 274 Boeing B-17 bombers dropped 500 tons of bombs on Skoda Works at Plyen, Czechoslovakia.
1945 - Allied air raid on Surabaja Java.
1944 - First helicopter evacuation of combat wounded--Lt. Carter Harman, AAF, made a medevac flight near Mawlu, Burma flying the Sikorsky Hoverfly in Burma.
1st Air Commando sergeant pilot Ed "Murphy" Hladovcak had crash landed his L-1 light plane with 3 wounded British solders on board behind enemy lines. Taxing his YR-4 helicopter to its performance limits, Harmon made four flights to the site, making the final hasty liftoff just as shouting soldiers burst from the jungle. He learned later the soldiers were not Japanese, but an Allied land rescue party.
1944 - Seventh Air Force B-24s made the first land plane attack on Guam from Eniwetok, while Navy PBY's flew photo reconnaissance missions.
1942 - Flying together for the first time, the 49th Pursuit Group downs 10 Japanese bombers and 3 Zeros over Darwin, Australia--no USAAF loses in the combat.
1940 - McGee Airways pioneers the transportation of fresh meat and milk to the interior of Alaska.
1937 - A.Yershov sets a world record for altitude with a one-ton payload in the amphibious ARK-3-1 aircraft built by I.V. Cherverikov, with two M-25E engines to 9,190 meters.
1928 - Floyd Bennett, American pioneer aviator, died this date.He piloted the explorer Richard E. Byrd on the first successful flight over the North Pole on May 9, 1926, in a three-engine Fokker monoplane, Josephine Ford. They flew 1,360 miles from King's Bay, Spitzbergen, to the Pole and back in 15-1/2 hours. During his aviation duty in the Navy Bennett had met Byrd (1925) as his commander on the Donald B. MacMillan expedition to northwestern Greenland. Byrd realized that Bennett was more than a good pilot, he was fearless, and one of the finest practical men in the Navy for handling an airplane's temperamental mechanisms. Together, they planned the North Pole flight. For his share in the achievement Bennett received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
1922 - First flight of the first all-metal airplane designed for the U.S. Navy, Known as the Stout ST-1, makes its first flight piloted by Eddie Stinson.1918 - Canadian ace (25 victories) Royal Naval Air Service Capt. Stanley Wallace Rosevear was killed in a crash near Arras, France.
1916 - Test pilot V.P. Trofimov is born.
1915 - First combat sortie of the D.P. Grigorovich M-5 flying boat.
1914 - First combat observation mission by Navy plane, at Veracruz, Mexico.
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