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9 July 1945. A RCAF Supermarine Spitfire F.1a (X4492) from Rivers, Manitoba, photographed the total eclipse of the sun for the first time in history, from 34,000 feet.
Captain Eustace Lorain and his passenger Staff Sergeant R H V Wilson were flying a Nieuport Monoplane out of Larkhill on a routine morning practice sortie.
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.
Leutnant Wintgens’ Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker fighter, E.5/15 and its Oberursel U.0 seven cylinder rotary engine with Stangensteuerung synchronizer gear drive cam rod behind engine crankcase.
Halifax B Mark II, HR837 ‘NP-F’, of 158 Squadron was hit by a falling bomb from another aircraft while raiding Cologne on the night of 28-29 June 1943.
27 June 1963. X-15-3 (56-6672) piloted by Major Robert A. Rushworth USAF landed at Edwards Air Force Base after a 10 minutes 28 second flight (3-20-30). It was air-launched from NB-52B Stratofortress mothership, Balls 8, over Delamar Dry Lake in Nevada.
27 June 1941. First flight of the prototype Douglas XB-19 (38-471) from Clover Field, California. A 55 minute flight to March Field in Riverside County. Designed to test flight characteristics and design techniques associated with large bombers.
11.50 am, 30 November 1917. Observer, Lieutenant Leslie Archibald Powell machine guns a diving Albatross in an aerial duel high above Cambrai. Art by by Robert Taylor.
26 June 1898. Birth of Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt. German aircraft designer and manufacturer.