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Velomobile | A velomobile (); velomobiel, velo, or bicycle car is a human-powered vehicle (HPV) enclosed for aerodynamic advantage and/or protection from weather and collisions. Velomobiles are similar to recumbent bicycles, pedal go-karts and tricycles, but with a full fairing (aerodynamic or weather protective shell) and are not ... |
Visual flight rules | In aviation, visual flight rules (VFR) is a set of regulations under which a pilot operates an aircraft in weather conditions generally clear enough to allow the pilot to see where the aircraft is going. Specifically, the weather must be better than basic VFR weather minima, i.e., in visual meteorological conditions (V... |
Walking | Walking (also known as ambulation) is one of the main gaits of terrestrial locomotion among legged animals. Walking is typically slower than running and other gaits. Walking is defined as an "inverted pendulum" gait in which the body vaults over the stiff limb or limbs with each step. This applies regardless of the usa... |
Wayback Machine | The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. Launched for public access in 2001, the service allows users to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past. Founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce G... |
WestJet | WestJet Airlines, is a Canadian airline headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Founded in 1994, it is the second-largest airline in Canada and the eighth-largest airline in North America by frequency. It began operations in 1996 with 220 employees, three aircraft, and five destinations, and was launched as a low-cost alter... |
Wide-body aircraft | A wide-body aircraft, also known as a twin-aisle aircraft and in the largest cases as a jumbo jet, is an airliner with a fuselage wide enough to accommodate two passenger aisles with seven or more seats abreast. The typical fuselage diameter is 5 to 6 m (16 to 20 ft). In the typical wide-body economy cabin, passengers ... |
Wired glove | A wired glove (also called a dataglove or cyberglove) is an input device for human–computer interaction worn like a glove.
Various sensor technologies are used to capture physical data such as bending of fingers. Often a motion tracker, such as a magnetic tracking device or inertial tracking device, is attached to capt... |
World Intellectual Property Organization | The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO; French: Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI)) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN). Pursuant to the 1967 Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO was created to promote and protect in... |
World War I | World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting took place mainly in Europe and the Middle East, as well as in parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific, and in Europe was... |
Wright Flyer | The Wright Flyer (also known as the Kitty Hawk, Flyer I or the 1903 Flyer) made the first sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft on December 17, 1903. Invented and flown by brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, it marked the beginning of the pioneer era of aviation.
The aircraft is ... |
Wright Model A | The Wright Model A is an early aircraft produced by the Wright Brothers in the United States beginning in 1906.
It was a development of their Flyer III airplane of 1905. The Wrights built about seven Model A's in their bicycle shop during the period 1906–1907, in which they did no flying. One of these was shipped to L... |
Wright brothers | The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of an engine-powered... |
Yakovlev | The JSC A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau (Russian: ОАО Опытно-конструкторское бюро им. А.С. Яковлева) is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer (design office prefix Yak). Its head office is in Aeroport District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is a subsidiary of Yakovlev Corporation.
== Overview ==
The bur... |
Zeppelin | A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German pronunciation: [ˈt͡sɛpəliːn] ) who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin's notions were first formulated in 1874 and developed in detail in 1893. They were patented in German... |
1901 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1901:
== Events ==
At the start of the 20th century, French Navy uses shipboard balloons and man-lifting kites. They are a major user of them.
The French Navy torpedo boat tender Foudre operates a spherical balloon experimentally during naval maneuvers in the Mediterra... |
1902 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1902:
== Events ==
The Wright brothers fly their No. 3 Glider, with assisted take off, on over 700 flights, results lead directly to the construction of the Flyer.
The British Admiralty rejects a proposal to use captive balloons for submarine detection.
On an unspecified ... |
1903 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1903:
== Events ==
=== January–December ===
1 January – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky deduces the Basic Rocket Equation in his article Explorations of outer space with the help of reaction apparatuses.
12 February - The world's first successful heavier-than-air aircraft engine,... |
1904 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1904:
== Events ==
Frenchman Robert Esnault-Pelterie flies a glider based on the Wright brothers' glider designs but employing ailerons rather than wing-warping for control. His glider is the first full-sized aircraft to employ ailerons.
The French Navy disbands its ballo... |
1905 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1905:
== Events ==
In Santa Clara, California, Daniel J. Maloney flies for 20 minutes with a glider after starting from a balloon at a height of 4,000 ft (1,200 m).
The engineer Maurice Stanislas Léger's helicopter lifts a person vertically into the air in Monaco.
U.S. Ar... |
1906 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1906:
== Events ==
=== January–December ===
17 January – The Zeppelin LZ2 makes its first flight, which ends in a forced landing.
18 January – The Zeppelin LZ2 is destroyed in high winds.
27 February – American aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley dies at Aiken, Sou... |
1907 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1907:
== Events ==
Work begins on the Gnome rotary engine.
=== January–December ===
30 March – Brothers Gabriel and Charles Voisin announce the successful test flight of the Voisin company's first airplane, the Voisin 1907 biplane.
5 April – Louis Blériot makes a short f... |
1908 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1908:
== Events ==
The United States Army announces plans to buy flying machines.
Fiat begins to manufacture aero engines.
The French aircraft designer and manufacturer Édouard Nieuport begins the construction of his first aircraft, a small monoplane powered by a 20-horse... |
1909 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1909:
== Events ==
The French aircraft designer and manufacturer Édouard Nieuport makes some brief straight-line flights in his first aircraft, a small monoplane powered by a 20-horsepower (15-kilowatt) Darracq engine.
Fort Omaha Balloon School becomes the first United St... |
1910 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1910:
== Events ==
Races between aeroplanes and cars are won only by racing cars.
The world's first use of a radio between an aircraft and the ground takes place in the United States.
Hugo Junkers gets a patent for his thick wing/all-metal type aeroplane.
A patent is take... |
1911 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1911:
== Events ==
The French Navy selects the torpedo boat tender Foudre for conversion into France's first ship capable of carrying and handling airplanes. She will become the first warship to be permanently altered for use as an aviation ship.
The Austro-Hungarian Navy... |
1912 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1912:
== Events ==
First successful all-metal aircraft flies, the Tubavion monoplane built by Charles Ponche and Maurice Primard in France.
The French Navy officially establishes an air arm, the Service Aéronautique.
The first Bulgarian Air Force is formed, using Blériot,... |
1913 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1913:
== Events ==
The Serbian air force is established as an army air service. Six officers receive pilot training in France.
Mexican pilot Gustavo Salinas Camilla and Frenchman Didier Masson, flying for rebel forces led by Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution, at... |
1914 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1914.
The outbreak of World War I accelerates all aspects of aviation which in turn changes war in a twofold way. The aeroplane turns the sky into a new battlefield and eliminates the distinction between frontline and hinterland, with the civilian population far behind the... |
1915 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1915:
== Events ==
The United States Navy establishes a lighter-than-air arm, charged with the operation of airships and of kite balloons to be towed behind warships. By the end of World War I, four of its battleships and six of its destroyers will have operated balloons.... |
1916 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1916:
== Events ==
Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft simulate night torpedo attacks for the first time against Japanese fleet units in Tateyama Bay during annual fleet maneuvers, although no torpedoes are dropped.
The British Admiralty invites bids for aircraft catapults fo... |
1917 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1917.
== Events ==
During her 30 November 1916 – 24 February 1918 cruise, the Imperial German Navy commerce raider Wolf carries a Friedrichshafen FF.33e seaplane nicknamed Wölfchen ("Little Wolf" or "Wolf Cub"), which during 1917 singlehandedly captures at least four of t... |
1918 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1918:
== Events ==
The Imperial Japanese Navy establishes its first lighter-than-air aviation unit.
The naval aviation branch of the Chilean Army's air corps receives its first aircraft.
The Eberhart Steel Products Company is founded in Buffalo, New York. It specializes i... |
1919 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1919:
== Events ==
Raymond Orteig offers the Orteig Prize for the first non-stop transatlantic flight between New York and Paris.
A Sopwith Baby attached to a Chilean Navy cruiser is the first shipboard aircraft in Latin American history.
=== January ===
Flying a Breguet... |
1920 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1920:
== Events ==
Juan de la Cierva y Cordoniu invents the autogyro. His first autogyro, the Cierva C.1, fails to become airborne, but is the first aircraft to demonstrate the principle of autorotation as it taxis on the ground.
The Argentine Navy establishes a naval avi... |
1921 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1921:
== Events ==
Mexicana de Aviación begins service.
The Imperial Japanese Navy acquires its first rigid and semi-rigid airships.
The Italian General Giulio Douhet publishes his highly influential book Command of the Air. In it, he argues that the ability of aircraft t... |
1922 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1922:
== Events ==
The Persian Army forms an air department.
The Argentine Navy opens a naval aviation school.
Brazil studies the possibility of converting two merchant ships into aircraft carriers. Although nothing comes of the idea, it is the first time a Latin American... |
1923 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1923:
== Events ==
The Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation is absorbed by the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation.
During 1923, French Breguet 14T bis Sanitaire air ambulances evacuate 870 wounded French personnel from the Levant and French Morocco.
=== January ===
Air Union is... |
1924 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1924:
== Events ==
Violating the Treaty of Versailles, Germany establishes a secret training base for German pilots at Lipetsk in the Soviet Union. More than 450 German personnel will train there over the next ten years.
Following a military revolt, Brazil abolishes Brazi... |
1925 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1925.
== Events ==
In the United Kingdom, the first Royal Auxiliary Air Force squadrons are formed.
The Eberhart Steel Products Company of Buffalo, New York, forms an aircraft design and manufacturing subsidiary, the Eberhart Aeroplane and Motor Company.: 191
Summer 1925... |
1926 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1926:
== Events ==
Award of the Harmon Trophy begins. A set of three trophies is awarded annually to the world's outstanding aviator, aviatrix (female aviator), and aeronaut (balloon or dirigible aviator) for the year, and a fourth trophy (the National Trophy) is awarded ... |
1927 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1927:
== Events ==
The United States Navy's USS Langley (CV-1) becomes the first aircraft carrier to operate a multi-engine aircraft, the twin-engine Douglas T2D-1.
The British aircraft carrier HMS Argus brings Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Air Force Fairey IIID aircraft to ... |
1928 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1928:
== Events ==
The Soviet Union's first five-year plan (1928–1932) begins, placing a high priority on the construction of new aircraft factories. It begins a rapid expansion of the Soviet aircraft industry.
The Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company renames itself the Aer... |
1929 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1929:
== Events ==
During the year, the greatest number of fatal civil aircraft crashes in United States history take place.
Cubana de Aviación begins service.
Pan American World Airways begins service.
The Canadian Siskins aerobatic team is formed.
The first official air... |
1930 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1930:
== Events ==
The Surrey Aero Club inaugurates recreational flights from Gatwick Race Course (now London Gatwick Airport).
The German airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes its first crossing of the South Atlantic.
The Aeromarine-Klemm Corporation, formerly the Aeromarin... |
1931 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1931:
== Events ==
Bert Hinkler flies a de Havilland Puss Moth from Canada to New York City, then non-stop 2,400 km (1,500 mi) to Jamaica, then on to British Guiana and Brazil. He then flies across the South Atlantic Ocean to West Africa in extremely bad weather, becoming... |
1932 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1932:
== Events ==
The Canadian Siskins aerobatic team is retired.
James Work founds the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation.
Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth buys a 1928 de Havilland DH.60X Moth (G-EBWD), which he bases at Old Warden airfield in Bedfordshire, England. It remai... |
1933 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1933:
== Events ==
The United States Coast Guard requests authorization to construct its first cutters with a capability of carrying aircraft.
Tokyo conducts its first blackout exercise.
The Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corporation is absorbed into North American Aviation.
The... |
1934 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1934:
== Events ==
Sir Alan Cobham's Flight Refuelling Ltd. develops the looped-hose aerial refueling system, a weighted cable let out of a tanker aircraft and grabbed by a grapnel fired from the receiving aircraft. It is the first practical aerial refueling system, and w... |
1935 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1935:
== Events ==
Employing aerial refueling, a sustained flight record of 653 hours 34 minutes (27 days, 5 hours, 34 minutes) is set by brothers Al and Fred Key of Meridian, Mississippi. It remains unbroken.
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation moves from Buffalo, New York... |
1936 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1936:
== Events ==
The Royal Air Force's first monoplane bomber, the Avro Anson, enters service.
The German Luftwaffe begins experiments with helle Nachtjagd (abbreviated Henaja) techniques, the operation of night fighters with the aid of searchlights.
The Soviet aviator ... |
1937 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1937:
== Events ==
Over Tushino airfield near Moscow, Soviet aircraft fly in precise formations spelling "LENIN", "STALIN," and "USSR."
Cuba establishes a naval aviation arm.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries moves its airframe manufacturing business into a new subsidiary, the Ka... |
1938 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1938:
== Events ==
Imperial Airways inaugurates scheduled service from London to Montreal. Pan American World Airways is banned from British airports out of fears that more advanced U.S. aircraft will drive Imperial out of the transatlantic market.
The National Trophy, th... |
1939 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1939:
== Events ==
Kawasaki Heavy Industries transfers its aircraft engine production business to its subsidiary, the Kawasaki Aircraft Engineering Company.
The Showa Aeroplane Company Ltd. begins to produce aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Navy at Showa, Japan.
=== Ja... |
1940 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1940:
== Events ==
The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation absorbs the Hall Aluminum Aircraft Corporation.
Transcontinental and Western Air inaugurates the world's first in-flight audio entertainment for airline passengers, who have individual receivers with which to listen... |
1941 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1941:
== Events ==
During the spring and summer, the Imperial Japanese Navy's air arm conducts Operation 102, its second major bombing campaign against Chongqing.
By early autumn, the Imperial Japanese Navy has turned all air operations on the Chinese mainland over to the... |
1942 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1942:
== Events ==
The United States Coast Guard begins to use the national insignia for United States Army, United States Navy, and United States Marine Corps aircraft on its own aircraft for the first time. The practice has continued ever since.
=== January ===
The U.S... |
1943 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1943:
== Events ==
Watanabe Iron Works transfers its aircraft manufacturing business to a new subsidiary, the Kyushu Airplane Company Ltd.
=== January ===
January 5 – In support of the American occupation of Amchitka in the Aleutian Islands scheduled for the next day, Un... |
1944 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1944:
== Events ==
=== January ===
United States Coast Guard pilot Lieutenant, junior grade, Stewart Graham makes the first helicopter flight from a merchant ship in convoy in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the United States Department of the Navy's development ... |
1945 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1945:
== Events ==
The probe-and-drogue aerial refueling system, in which the tanker aircraft trails a hose with a stabilizing conical drogue at its end which mates to a fixed probe mounted on the receiving aircraft, is perfected. It is superior to and replaces the looped... |
1946 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1946:
== Events ==
The American Section of the International League of Aviators resurrects the National Trophy, a Harmon Trophy awarded from 1926 to 1938 to the outstanding aviator of the year in each of the 21 member countries of the now-defunct League. It will be awarde... |
1947 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1947:
== Events ==
The United States' inventory of atomic bombs reaches a total of 13 weapons during the year.
=== January ===
January 7 – Pioneering aviator Helen Richey is found dead at the age of 37 in her New York City apartment, apparently having committed suicide w... |
1948 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1948:
== Events ==
Publication of Nevil Shute's novel No Highway set in the world of research into aviation safety.
The United States Air Force has 20,800 aircraft, about half of them combat aircraft, down from 68,400 aircraft at the end of World War II in 1945. U.S. Air ... |
1949 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1949:
== Events ==
Aerolíneas Argentinas is established.
Royal Jordanian Air Force is formed as the Arab League Air Force.
Republic of Korea Air Force is formed.
Lebanese Air Force is formed.
The de Havilland Sea Hornets of No. 801 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, embark aboard t... |
1950 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1950:
== Events ==
Arrow Air is founded.
The Piper Aircraft Corporation purchases the Stinson Aircraft Company
The Brazilian Navy begins to reestablish an air arm of its own when an aeronautics directorate is created within the Ministry of the Navy.
=== January ===
The P... |
1951 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1951:
== Events ==
Three aerial refueling points are installed on a modified United States Air Force B-29 Superfortress, making it the world's first triple-point aerial tanker. During trials, it keeps six Royal Air Force Gloster Meteor F 8 fighters continuously aloft simu... |
1952 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1952:
== Events ==
The Royal Navy conducts the world's first trials of an angled flight deck, aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Triumph. It had been invented by Royal Navy Captain (later Rear Admiral) Dennis R. F. Campbell.
The Royal Navy conducts the world's first trials o... |
1953 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1953:
== Events ==
The first year in which the world's airlines carried more than 50 million people.
Argentina initiates a study of the feasibility of converting either a cargo ship or a heavy cruiser into an aircraft carrier in an Argentine shipyard. Ultimately, no conve... |
1954 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1954:
== Events ==
The United States Navy adopts the probe-and-drogue aerial refuelling system.
=== January ===
January 6 – A Royal Air Force Vickers Valetta T3 carrying a rugby team crashes at Albury, Hertfordshire, England, in bad weather, killing 16 of the 17 people o... |
1955 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1955.
== Events ==
The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) acquires a 49 percent ownership stake in Middle East Airlines, displacing Pan American World Airways as an owner of the airline.
Icelandic airline Loftleiðir begins low-cost transatlantic flights via Luxem... |
1956 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1956.
== Events ==
=== January ===
Vietnam Civil Aviation is founded as the national civil aviation authority of North Vietnam, functioning as an element of the Vietnam People's Air Force responsible for state management, national defense, and commercialization of civili... |
1957 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1957.
== Events ==
The Douglas AIR-2 Genie ("Ding-Dong") unguided air-to-air missile enters service with the United States Air Force. It mounts a 1.5-kiloton nuclear warhead and has a lethal radius of 1,000 feet (300 m).
The United Kingdom's Minister of Defence, Duncan Sa... |
1958 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1958.
== Events ==
For the first time, the total of transatlantic passengers carried by air this year exceeded the total carried by sea.
Gulfstream Aerospace was founded in Savannah, Georgia, United States.
The Argentine Navy acquired its first aircraft carrier by purchas... |
1959 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1959.
== Events ==
The Canadian Golden Hawks aerobatic team is formed.
The United States Department of the Navy merges its Bureau of Aeronautics and Bureau of Ordnance to form a new Bureau of Naval Weapons.
=== January ===
Northern Aircraft Inc. becomes the Downer Aircra... |
1960 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1960.
== Events ==
Evergreen Helicopters is founded. It later will become Evergreen International Aviation.
Switzerland′s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau begins operations.
Summer – The United States Navy antisubmarine aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CVS-18) is statione... |
1961 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1961.
== Events ==
During the year, Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela (LAV) introduces the Douglas DC-8 into service to replace its Lockheed Super Constellations.
=== January ===
January 1
East Germany establishes its national civil aviation authority, the Hauptverwaltung der... |
1962 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1962.
== Events ==
The United States Navy develops vertical replenishment (VERTREP) techniques to supply ships at sea by helicopter, as Sikorsky HSS-2 Sea King (later redesignated SH-3A Sea King) antisubmarine helicopters from the general stores issue ship USS Altair and ... |
1963 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1963.
== Events ==
Violating a 1959 requirement that all aircraft operating from the aircraft carrier Minas Gerais - which never has operated aircraft - belong to the Brazilian Air Force, the Brazilian Navy establishes an air group of its own for the carrier and smuggles ... |
1964 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1964.
== Events ==
Chilean President Jorge Alessandri grants the Chilean Navy the authority to operate all types of aircraft without restriction. It is the first time that the navy has administrative control of all naval aircraft since 1930.
=== January ===
January 4 – P... |
1965 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1965.
== Events ==
In the Mediterranean, the United States Navy Sixth Fleet general stores issue ship USS Altair (AKS-32) conducts what is probably the first night vertical replenishment (VERTREP) of an aircraft carrier, using the Sikorsky SH-3A Sea King antisubmarine hel... |
1966 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1966.
== Events ==
=== January ===
The United States Army′s helicopter assault-oriented 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) begins Operation Matador to destroy North Vietnamese Army forces in Pleiku and Kon Tum Province, South Vietnam.
January 1 – The U.S. Military Air Tran... |
1967 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1967.
== Events ==
The Canadian Golden Centennaires aerobatic team is formed and performs all year to celebrate the Canadian Centennial year.
Boeing opens its biggest factory (largest building by volume), the Boeing Everett Factory, in Everett, Washington.
Pacific Air Lin... |
1968 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1968.
== Events ==
In the 1968 White Paper on Defence, the British Labour government announces that the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier force will be phased out as soon as the United Kingdom has completed its withdrawal from Malaysia, Singapore, and the Persian Gulf, schedu... |
1969 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1969.
== Events ==
The Canadian Snowbirds aerobatic team is formed.
A fifth annual Harmon Trophy is created to honor the world's outstanding astronaut of the year and is awarded for the first time, honoring the outstanding astronauts of 1968.
Interflug begins operation of... |
1970 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1970.
== Events ==
=== January ===
January 1
Nord-Aviation, Sud-Aviation, and SEREB merge to form SNIAS (the future Aérospatiale).
A Cruzeiro do Sul Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle VI-R (registration PP-PDZ) is hijacked by six passengers during a flight from Montevideo, Ur... |
1971 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1971.
== Events ==
The Peruvian Army reestablishes Peruvian Army Aviation.
Assessing the prospects for the development of hypersonic airliners, John Becker and Frank Kirkham of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Langley Research Center project th... |
1972 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1972.
== Events ==
Early in the year, the United States introduces the Walleye II optically guided glide bomb into service, employing it in the Vietnam War. It becomes known as the "Fat Albert."
=== January ===
The last elements of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division... |
1973 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1973.
== Events ==
Don Taylor attempts round-the-world trip in his homebuilt Thorp T-18, ended by a spate of really bad weather between northern Japan and the Aleutian Islands. His next attempt in the summer of 1976 is successful.
=== January ===
January 2
Attempting to ... |
1974 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1974. 1974 had been deemed as "the single worst year in airline history" although this has since been surpassed.
== Events ==
Japan creates its Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission, responsible for investigation aviation accidents in Japan.
Spring 1974 – Under an in... |
1975 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1975.
== Events ==
=== January ===
A specially modified McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle sets eight time to climb records, including one of 3 minutes 27 seconds from standstill on the runway to a height of 30,000 metres (98,000 feet).
January 3 – A lone hijacker boards a Nat... |
1976 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1976.
== Events ==
The Vatican City Heliport, a helipad in the Vatican Gardens located in the westernmost bastion of the Leonine Wall, opens in Vatican City.
=== January ===
January 1
A bomb explodes in the forward cargo compartment of Middle East Airlines Flight 438, a ... |
1977 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1977.
== Events ==
Uganda Airlines begins flight operations.
=== January ===
East African Airways ceases all operations. It will go into liquidation in February.
January 5 – In the Connellan air disaster, Colin Richard Foreman, a disgruntled former employee of Connellan ... |
1978 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1978.
== Events ==
The Dominican Republic airline Aerovías Quisqueyana shuts down. It had operated since 1962.
=== January ===
The Government of India establishes the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security as a department of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
January ... |
1979 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1979.
== Events ==
Eight Bell 212s delivered to the Civil Aviation Administration of China are the first helicopters supplied to the People's Republic of China by an American manufacturer.
=== January ===
Continental Airlines inaugurates service between Houston, Texas, a... |
1980 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1980.
== Events ==
British West Indian Airlines merges with Trinidad and Tobago′s flag carrier Trinidad and Tobago Air Services and becomes the country's new flag carrier, BWIA International Airways.
Ballistic Recovery Systems is founded.
Summer 1980 – The British Aerospa... |
1981 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1981.
== Events ==
=== January ===
January 7 – A Boeing 747 of CAAC lands at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, marking the first flight from the mainland of China to the United States since 1949.
January 11–13 – Max Anderson and Don Ida make a faile... |
1982 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1982.
== Events ==
=== January ===
January 8 – The Airbus A300 is certified, becoming the first wide-body airliner with cockpit accommodations for only two to be certified.
January 10 – A Gulfstream III, Spirit of America, flies around the world in just 43 hours 39 minut... |
1983 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1983.
== Events ==
=== January ===
France agrees to supply Iraq with five Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard strike fighters capable of firing the Exocet anti-ship missile.
January 1 – Eastern Air Lines makes its first Boeing 757 revenue flight.
January 2 – In the Iran–Iraq... |
1984 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1984.
== Events ==
Cirrus Aircraft founded
=== January ===
Frontier Horizon, a low-cost subsidiary of Frontier Airlines operating Boeing 727-100s, begins flight operations.
January 10 – A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 strikes a power line and crashes on approa... |
1985 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1985.
== Events ==
Lauda Air begins flight operations as a charter and air taxi service. It began scheduled service in 1987.
Ryanair is founded, initially as a full-service carrier.
Emirates Airlines is founded, with the help of the Government of Dubai and Pakistan Intern... |
1986 in aviation | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1986.
== Events ==
=== January ===
January 9 – The United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Heseltine, resigns amidst a political furore over the future of Westland Helicopters. Two weeks later, Leon Brittan, the Trade and Industry Secretary, also will re... |
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