NASA’s B377SGT Super Guppy cargo aircraft (N941) touches down at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. on June 11, 2000 to deliver the latest version of the X-38 flight test vehicle to NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center.
1999, LAPA Flight 3142, a Boeing 737-200, crashes on takeoff from Buenos Aires, killing 65 and injuring 34. The crash is blamed on the crew not properly extending flaps for departure.
1998, North Korea launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng.
1986, Aeromexico Flight 498, a Douglas DC-9, while on approach to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) collides with a Piper PA-28-181 Archer over Cerritos, California. Both planes plummet to the earth, killing all 64 people on the DC-9, all three people on the Piper and 15 people on the ground.
1977, a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 reaches a record altitude of 123,523.62 ft. (23.39 miles) over Podmoskovnoye, USSR.
1969, former heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano is killed when the Cessna 172 he is on hits a tree two miles short of Newton Municipal Airport in Iowa while attempting to land during bad weather, also killing the pilot and another passenger. The crash is blamed on the pilot’s inexperience in Instrument Meteorological Conditions and night flying.
1968, Rolls-Royce powers up their new RB211 jet engine for the first time. Designed to power the Lockheed L-1011, future versions would be offered for the Boeing 747 and 757, the Tupolev Tu-204-120 and for re-enginging of the B-52H Stratofortress bomber.
1965, the Aero Spacelines B-377-SG/SGT Super Guppy makes its maiden flight.
