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1 February 1943. 41-24406. B-17F-5-BO Flying Fortress 'All American', of 414th Squadron, 97BG was rammed by Me109G while on a mission to Tunis, almost slicing rear fuselage and tail of plane off, but made it back to Biskra, Algeria and was repaired.
1 March 1945. Death of German test pilot Lothar Sieber, killed while making the first vertical take-off manned rocket flight, in a Bachem Ba 349 "Natter", a WWII German point-defence rocket powered interceptor.
30 January 1915. First flight of the Gotha G.I, a German three seat heavy bomber biplane.
Died 24 January 1971. Ferdinand von Hiddessen, German WWI pilot and politician. The 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.
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.
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.