In 1913, the first aerobatic maneuver known as ‘sustained inverted flight’ is performed in France.
In 1958, the first airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours lands in Dallas, Texas.
Northorp RF-5A Freedom Fighter at the Royal Air Force Museum in Bangkok
In 1961, the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter makes its maiden flight.
In 1964, the world’s first Mach 3 bomber, the North American XB-70 Valkyrie, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
In 1979, two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over the UK but both pilots eject safely. One of the jets brakes up in midair and falls into a field without harming anyone but the other dropped onto the centre of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, destroying two houses and a bungalow, injuring several people killing three.
