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On This Day: May 28

Aviation events for May 28

1912: Capt. Charles de Forest Chandler, commanding officer of the U.S. Signal Corps Aviation School at College Park, Maryland, receives War Department form no. 395 AGO, dated February 2, 1912, which was the first document on U.S. aviation medicine. It dictates that “all candidates for aviation only shall be subject to a vigorous physical examination to determine their fitness for duty.”
 
1914: Glenn Curtiss successfully flies the refurbished Langley Aerodrome for a distance of approximately 150 ft. at Keuka Lake, Hammindsport, New York.
 
1920: The first Lewis & Vought VE-7 (Vought Experimental No.7) is delivered to the U.S. Navy.
 
1947: First flight of the Sukhoi Su-11 (1947), first aircraft with Soviet-designed jet engines.
 
1947: First flight of the Douglas Skystreak.
 
1947: British South American Airways trials non-stop flights from London to Bermuda using aerial refueling over the Azores.
 
1971: First flight of the Dassault Mercure F-WTCC.
 
1971: Mars 3, USSR Mars Orbiter/Soft Lander, launched. Mars 3 arrived at Mars on December 2, 1971. The lander was released and became the first successful landing on Mars. It failed after relaying 20 seconds of video data to the orbiter. The Mars 3 orbiter returned data until August, 1972. It made measurements of surface temperature and atmospheric composition.
 
1999: First flight Airbus A319.
 
 
 

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