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Aviation History

This Week in Aviation History: United Flight 629

On Nov. 1, 1955, a United Air Lines Douglas DC-6B exploded under un-natural circumstances that would later define the event as a dreadful first.

 

This Week in Aviation History: First Turbojet

When the sun set on this airfield in Marienehe, Germany, on August 27, 1939 turbojet power had propelled an aircraft aloft for the first time, literally days before the start of World War II.

 

Graf Zeppelin - The Most Successful Airship

Although a more infamous airship was to follow, perhaps the most famous airship was the Graf Zeppelin, which launched on September 18, 1928.

   

This Week In Aviation History -- Powered Flight, Pre-Wright

A powered, heavier-than-air craft succeeded in taking off from the ground on October 9, 1890 -- thirteen years before the brothers Wright took their flight.

 

This Week In Aviation History: Delta Hustle

On Nov. 11, 1956, three men took the flightdeck of the Convair B-58 Hustler for the first flight of the supersonic bomber.

   

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