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13 November 1947. First flight of the Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52, British all-metal turbojet-powered flying wing aircraft.
Adolphus’ a mascot that accompanied WW1 ace Maurice Le Blanc Smith DFC on many missions.
17 September 1916. The first victory of Manfred von Richthofen - By Alex Hamilton.
24 August 1925. First flight of the Supermarine S.4, British
single-engine single-seat monoplane racing seaplane prototype designed by R. J.
Mitchell to compete in the Schneider Trophy. It crashed and was destroyed
before the competition started.
Died 10 August 1896, Otto Lilienthal, the first man to make well-documented, repeated, successful gliding flights.
14 July 1948. First glide flight of the Bisnovat 5, (model ‘6’). Soviet swept-wing aircraft 2/3 size prototype rocket plane, dropped from a Pe-8.
26 June 1898. Birth of Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer and manufacturer.
Founder of Republic Aviation, Alexander de Seversky with Sev-3XAR (ancestor of Thunderbolt) in 1934.