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6 February 1959. First successful launch of a Martin Marietta SM-68A/HGM-25A Titan I. First US multistage ICBM.
Hunting Party - Bristol F2B, Lieutenant Keith Park leading, 1917. Art by Lee Lacey.
Died 24 January 1971. Ferdinand von Hiddessen, German WWI pilot and politician, first German airman to bomb Paris in WWI.
24 January 1950. First flight of the North American YF-93A (48-317). American jet fighter prototype, development of the F-86 Sabre.
18 January 1917. The SS15 dirigible with a BE2c cupola, was sent out from Pembroke hunting U-boats in the Bristol Channel. Crashed in bad weather off Lundy.
13 January 1940. First flight of the Yakovlev Yak-1 (I-26), WWII Soviet fighter aircraft, single-seat monoplane with a composite structure and wooden wings.
12 January 1866. The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain was founded in London (later to become the Royal Aeronautical Society). Still in existence today. The first public meeting was held in the rooms of the Society of Arts (later Royal), Adelphi, on 27 June 1866.