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On This Day: May 10

Aviation events for May 10

1810: Astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel appointed director of Frederick William III of Prussia's Königsberg Observatory and professor of astronomy.
 
1897: Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky (Russian Rocketry Pioneer) created his calculations about space flight theory.
 
1919: The recently formed Avro Transport Company in Manchester opens Britain’s first scheduled air service. A fare of four guineas (£4.20) is being charged for the journey of 50 miles. The company is using four of Avro 504K aircraft, modified to carry two passengers.
 
1950: First flight of the de Havilland Heron G-ALZL.
 
1961: A Convair B-58A cruises at a speed of 1,302mph (2,095kph) and wins the Blériot trophy, created 30 years ago for the first airplane to maintain a speed of more than 2,000 kph for more than 30 minutes in a closed circuit.
 
1970: SR-71 (969) was lost due to a pitch up accident due to an improper center of gravity problem near Bangkok Thailand. Pilot Willie Lawson and RSO Gil Martinez survived. (Q)
 
1971: Kosmos 419, USSR Mars Probe, launched. Failed to leave Earth orbit.
 
1972: First flight of the Fairchild YA-10 71-1369.
 
1983: Airspur Helicopters introduces the Westland 30 helicopter into scheduled airline service.
 
1988: Airbus A300's are delivered to American Airlines and they enter service with American Airlines.
 
2012: The women's international record-holder for number of flight hours logged as a pilot in a lifetime, Evelyn Bryan Johnson, dies at the age of 102. Between her first solo flight on 8 November 1944 and her retirement from flying in the mid-1990s, she had logged 57,635 hours (about 6½ years) in the air, flying about 5,500,000 miles (8,856,683 km). Only one person, Ed Long (1915-1999), had logged more hours (over 65,000, or about 7 years) in the air during a lifetime.
 
 
 

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