The deaths of two aviation greats; Andrei Tupolev in 1972 and Anthony Fokker in 1939. The B-1 Lancer makes its first flight in 1974, the first dogfight with a UAV in 2002 and the crashes of Azerbaijan Flight 217 in 2005 and Ali...
The US Air Force Academy opens in Colorado, Count von Zeppelin flies from Lake Constance to Berlin, the Canberra B 2 sets an altitude record, a charter flight crashes into a mountain in Norway, and more...