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1 January 1956. Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, build number 37974, dropped from Boeing P2B-S1 Superfortress, build number 84029.
31 December 1951. First flight of the Fauvel AV.36. French single-seat tailless glider.
21 December 1910. Death of early American pioneer aviator for the Wright brothers, Archibald Hoxsey (b.15 October 1884). He fell 7,000 ft. while attempting a new flight altitude record with a Wright model B in Los Angeles.
Top to bottom, Sous Lieutenant William Louis Max Herisson’s Nieuport 24 N3987, SPAD XII and SPAD VII.
Copy of report sent to the Commanding Officer 2 Australian Flying Corps A.I.F. by Captain F.R. Smith M.C., D.F.C., 2 Squadron AFC. The account concerns the three days he spent behind German lines in those last few days of the war.
Died aged 65 on 24 December 1961 in Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia, 16 victory SE5a ace with 2 Squadron AFC, Captain Francis Ryan "Frank" Smith MC, DFC. His Great War experience commenced with the Army.
23 December 1938. First flight of the Blackburn B-25 Roc. British Fleet Air Arm two-seat fighter/dive bomber aeroplane, development of the Skua dive bomber using the same turret fighter concept as the Boulton Paul Defiant.
Born 23 December 1891 in Sydney, New South Wales, 6 victory D.H.4 ace with 18 Squadron, Captain Herbert Ruska Gould MC.
22 December 1939. First flight of the Caproni Ca.313. (Prototype MM.402). Italian twin-engine reconnaissance bomber, development of the Ca.310.