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28 August 1942. Vickers Wellington Mk.III DF665 (VR-Q) of 419 Squadron (RCAF), took off for a mission to Saarbrucken in Germany from Topcliffe. It did not return.
Blackburn Kangaroo of 246 Squadron RAF flown by Lieutenant E. F. Waring bombed German submarine, SM UC-70, near Runswick Bay, Yorkshire on 28 August 1918.
27 August 1918. 5 victory Australian ace, Lieutenant George Cox of 2 Squadron AFC, flying SE5a F5965 between 10:50 and 10:55, destroyed one Fokker D.VII in flames, sent another down out of control, both over Sains les Marquion and a Pfalz D.III out of control at Lecluse.
Born 24 August 1899 in Tepliwoda, Schlesien (Silesia), 26 victory German ace with Jasta 62, Leutnant Max Näther.
21 August 1955. First flight of the photographic-reconnaissance version Grumman F9F-8P Cougar. US carrier-based fighter aircraft.
20 August 1908. Robert Gastambride became the first passenger flown in a monoplane (the Gastambide-Mengin II, later re-named Antoinette II).
'On Laughter-Silvered Wings.' Art by Keith Ferris, depicting John Gillespie Magee’s Supermarine Spitfire.
RAF 24 Squadron, SE5a. Pilot William Lambert - 'Attack from out the sun' - art by Bob Cunningham.