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2 August 1918. Final test flight of a Siemens L7Y glide bomb. Launched from Zeppelin LZ 80 (L 35) 4,900 ft over the Havel river, the 2,200 lb biplane flew until its control wire, attached to the Zeppelin, snapped and the glider spun out of control.

1 August 1943. Operation Tidal Wave was an air attack by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in Libya on nine oil refineries around Ploiești, Romania.

Polkovnik Aleksandr Alexandrovich Kozakov's first victory was an Albatros C, brought down near Guzov-Voljat on 31 March 1915. At the time he was flying Morane-Saulnier G (316) with the 4th Corps Fighter Detachment.

31 July 1915. R.E.5 s/n 2457 and Captain John Liddell V.C. of 7 Squadron RFC at La Panne. ‘Liddell Made it Back Somehow’ - art by Les Urwin

26 July 1944. First jet aircraft combat, Alfred Schreiber (11 November 1923 – 26 November 1944) flying a Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a intercepted and attacked a Mosquito PR XVI, a photo-reconnaissance aircraft from 540 Squadron RAF.

20 July 1955: First flight of the Convair NB-36H Nuclear Test Aircraft ('Crusader') serial number 51-5712 at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas. To date, the only American aircraft to carry an operational nuclear reactor.

19 July 1918. The Tondern Raid, Sopwith Camels. Art by John Young.

Oeffag Albatros D.III Ba.153 of Flik 42J s/n 153.42 flown by Stabsfeldwebel Ferdinand Udvardy.

4 July 1942. First USAAF unit to bomb targets in Europe, 15th Bombardment Squadron. 6 Douglas Boston light bombers accompanied 6 Bostons of 226 Squadron RAF in attacks upon Luftwaffe airfields at De Kooy, Bergen, Haamstede and Valkenburg, Netherlands.

24 June 1784. Thirteen year old Edward Warren made the first, two hour two mile tethered balloon ascent in the United States, in Baltimore, Maryland. America’s first aviator volunteered when the craft proved too weak to lift its builder, Peter Carnes.