1904: The Wrights apply for a German patent for their airplane. Two days ago they applied for a French one.

1909: The Wright brothers found a school in the USA to train pilots for exhibition flights. The first pupil is a childhood friend, Walter Brookins, 21, from Dayton. Because Dayton’s weather is not good enough, Orville Wright sets up the school at Montgomery, Alabama, where winds are generally light.

1932: Jim Mollison leaves Lympne, Kent, England at the start of a record-breaking attempt to fly to South Africa in a D. H. 80A Puss Moth (G-ABKG) specially modified as a long-range single seater. His time was 4 days 17 hours 19 minutes.

1939: American woman air record-breaker Jacqueline Cochran achieves a woman’s altitude record of 30,052 ft. 5 in. over Palm Spring, California in a Beechcraft Model 17.

1971: As a result of votes in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, Boeing cancels its supersonic transport. The elaborate, full-size mock-up is eventually sold to a promotion specialist who puts it in a Florida amusement park.

1975: Mariner 10, USA Mercury/Venus Flyby died.

1979: Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center.

1986: NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status.”

1992: Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space.

1992: 1st Belgium in space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space.

1999: Kiwi International Air Lines ceases operations.

2015: ---In 2015…Germanwings flight 9525 departed Barcelona for Dusseldorf. When the Captain left the flightdeck, the First Officer set the altitude to 100 feet at a rate of 3,000 FPM. The captain tried to get back in to the cockpit, was locked out. The A320 (D-AIPX, MSN 147) crashed in the French Alps near Barcelonnette, killing all 150 aboard. This was an intentional act.---In 2015…Germanwings flight 9525 departed Barcelona for Dusseldorf. When the Captain left the flightdeck, the First Officer set the altitude to 100 feet at a rate of 3,000 FPM. The captain tried to get back in to the cockpit, was locked out. The A320 (D-AIPX, MSN 147) crashed in the French Alps near Barcelonnette, killing all 150 aboard. This was an intentional act.