On This Day in Aviation History

2010-03-06

On This Day in Aviation History: March 6th

A Sikorsky SH-3A, similar to these, set a distance record on a transcon flight on this day in 1965.

2007 – ANA announces orders for 4 Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.

2003 – Air Algerie Flight 6239 crashes on takeoff from Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing all but one of the 103 on-board. The Boeing 737-200 (7T-VEZ) suffers a contained engine failure on rotation and is unable to maintain altitude, coming back to Earth a few thousand feet beyond the runway.

2003 – Hooters Air begins service, operated by Pace Airlines. The business would last less than three years.

2003 – Continental launches nonstop service from its Newark Liberty International Airport hub to Geneva, Switzerland.

1990 – An SR-71 sets a transcontinental speed record, flying from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. (2,404 miles) in 64 minutes, 20 seconds.

1986 – Japan Air Lines flies the world’s heaviest man, an 880-pound Austrian. His trip to Frankfurt, Germany required the removal of 16 seats.

1965 – The first nonstop flight across North American by a helicopter takes place by a Sikorsky SH-3A Sea King. Flying from the deck of the USS Hornet in San Diego, the aircraft covered 2,116 miles to the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in Jacksonville, Florida. This is also a distance record for choppers.

1935 – Federal regulations are put into place preventing flying over certain areas of Washington D.C.



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Phil Derner Jr.
Phil Derner founded NYCAviation in 2003. A lifetime aviation enthusiast that grew up across the water from La Guardia Airport, Phil has aviation experience as a Loadmaster, Operations Controller and Flight Dispatcher. He owns and operates NYCAviation and performs duties as an aviation expert through writing, consulting, public speaking and media appearances. You can reach him by email or follow him on Twitter.




 
 

 

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