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On This Day: May 22

Aviation events for May 22

1906: The Wright brothers are granted US patent No. 821,393 for their airplane control system.
 
1929: Pan American Airways inaugurates a new passenger service from Miami, Florida to Managua, Panama with stops at Belize. The journey by a F.VII/3ns takes 56 hours.
 
1946: First flight of the de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk.
 
1967: The McDonnell Douglas DC-8-62 enters service with SAS.
 
1967: Mele Vojvodich flew an A-12 (937) non-stop from Groom Lake to Kadena in 6 hours and 6 minutes, 6,873 miles. Due to the secrecy of the BLACK SHIELD operations, this flight was not recognized as a new transpacific speed record.
 
1990: The German Luftwaffe flies the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter for the last time before it is withdrawn from service; the airplane was nicknamed “the widow-maker” because of its terrible safety record – in its five years of service, 110 Starfighter pilots were killed.
 
 
 

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