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On This Day: June 5

Aviation events for June 5

1909: John Berry and Paul McCullough win the U.S.’s first National Balloon Race, covering 377.9 miles – from Indianapolis, Indiana to Fort Payne, Alabama – in 25 hours 35 minutes.
 
1909: The first monoplane flight of over one hour is made by Englishman Hubert Latham on the Antoinette IV for one hour, seven minutes, 37 seconds.
 
1963: President Kennedy announces that his administration would seek funds for the sponsored development of a supersonic transport aircraft.
 
1967: Monarch Airlines is founded.
 
1967: Boeing delivers its 1,000th jet airliner, a Boeing 707-120B for American Airlines.
 
1967: The start of the Six-Day War, is fought between Israel and her Arab neighbours Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In a pre-emptive strike, the Israeli Air Force destroys half of the Egyptian Air Force on the first night. By the end of the six days, 452 Arab aircraft had been destroyed for a loss of 46 Israeli aircraft.
 
1969: The Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner becomes the first aircraft of its class to fly through the sound barrier when it exceeds Mach 1 at a height of 36,000 ft.
 
1969: The Air Force agreed to allow NASA to use two YF-12s in a NASA program. (Q)
 
1981: The KC-10 completed qualification testing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
 
1983: Death of Kurt Waldemar Tank (b.February 24, 1898) was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot, heading the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931-45. He designed several important aircraft of World War II, including the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft.
 
1989: The massive Antonov An-225 Mriya flies in to Paris-Le Bourget for the 1989 Paris Air Show, carrying the Soviet Shuttle Buran on its back. When it takes of from Kiev to fly to Paris, the combination has a takeoff weight of 1,234,600 lb., the greatest weight ever lifted into the air.
 
 
 

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