1916: Timber merchant William E. Boeing forms a new aircraft company, the Pacific Aero Products Company.

1923: Dobrolet, the Soviet state airline, opens its first scheduled domestic service, between Moscow and Nizhniy Novgorod.

1925: Dr. A. Hamilton Rice’s expedition to the Amazon to explore the headwaters of the Amazon, the first exploration by airplane, returns safely.

1934: Continental Airlines commences operations.

1954: Boeing 367-80, prototype of the Boeing 707 and Boeing C-135 families.

1967: First delivery of the McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63 to KLM royal Dutch Airlines.

1968: The first direct airline service between the Soviet Union and the U.S. is inaugurated, ten years after negotiations began.

1975: The first international manned space flight occurs between the Soviet Soyuz 19 and an Apollo spacecraft.