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On This Day: May 3

Aviation events for May 3

1907: The Wright brothers are elected honorary members of the Vienna Aviation Club, Austria.
 
1923: U.S. Air Service Fokker T-2 pilots Lts. Oakley G. Kelly and John A. Macready complete the first non-stop flight across the United States in 26 hours, 50 minutes, 38.4 seconds from Roosevelt Field, Long Island to Wickenburg, Arizona.
 
1952: The first landing at the North Pole is made by Americans Lt. Col. William P. Benedict and Lt. Col. J. O. Fletcher on a ski-and-wheel equipped Air Force Douglas C-47.
 
1961: First silo launching of an ICBM, a USAF Titan at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
 
1976: Pan Am’s 747SP Clipper Liberty Bell returns after a world record for a round-the-world flight of 1 day, 22 hours, 26 minutes: it took off on May 1 and refueled in Delhi and Tokyo.
 
1977: First flight of the Bell Model 301 NASA702.
 
 
 

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