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Air-to-air photo of the Boeing 367-80 Dash 80, showing the aircraft passing over Washington's Olympic Peninsula. (Photo by Joe Parke, via Boeing)

Boeing 707 Prototype Makes First Test Flight, First USSR-US Service Takes Off: July 15 in Aviation History

1916: A timber merchant named William E. Boeing and a US Navy engineer named George Conrad Westervelt form a new aircraft company called the Pacific Aero Products Company. A year later it would be renamed Boeing Airplane Compan...
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On This Day in Aviation History: November 28th

A South African Airways jet crashes into the Indian Ocean, Air New Zealand's Mount Erebus disaster, Lufthansa makes its first flight to Japan, first ever flight over the South Pole in 1929, and more...
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Diagram illustrating the routes of the Cosmos and Iridium satellites when they collided in 2009.

On This Day in Aviation History: February 10th

McDonnell Douglas delivers its 10,000th plane, Gary Powers is released by the Soviets, two communications satellites collide in orbit and more...
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March 2, 1962 cover of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

March 1st in Aviation History: American Airlines Flight 1 Crashes in New York, Lindbergh Baby is Kidnapped

An American Airlines 707 crashes in New York, the Lindbergh Baby is kidnapped, JFK shuts down its busiest runway for repairs, and more...
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January 13th in Aviation History: Air Florida 90 Crashes and First Single Rotor Helicopter Flight

The Air Florida Flight 90 disaster takes 78 lives in Washington DC, and an Uzbekistan Yak-42 crashes in Tashkent. In happier news, Igor Sikorsky makes the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight, Shuttle Endeavour launc...
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