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On This Day: August 27

Aviation events for August 27

1783: Jacques Alexandre César Charles flies the first balloon filled with gas rather than fire-heated air using hydrogen produced by pouring 489 lbs. of sulfuric acid on 1,000 lbs. of iron. The balloon has a diameter of 12 ft.
 
1910: Radio is first used to send messages between the ground and an airplane when James McCurdy both sends and receives messages from a Curtiss biplane at Sheepshead, New York, using an H.M. Horton wireless set.
 
1913: Lieutenant Petr Nesterov of the Russian Army in Kiev performs the first loop-the-loop. The complete circle and other intentional acrobatic stunts prove to be valuable experience for the wartime maneuvers needed during aerial battles.
 
1939: The first fully jet-propelled aircraft to fly is Germany’s Heinkel 178. A centrifugal flow turbojet engine powers it.
 
1958: Beale Air Force Base is fully operational under the Strategic Air Command with newlybuilt 12,000 foot runways.
 
1990: Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan is killed in the crash of a Bell 206B Jet Ranger helicopter near East Troy, Wisconsin.
 
1990: First flight of the Northrop YF-23.
 
2006: Comair/Delta Connection Flight 5191, a Bombardier CRJ-200, runs off the end of a runway and crashes at Lexington-Blue Grass Airport (LEX) while attempting an early morning departure, killing all but one of the 50 people on board, the lone survivor being the First Officer, James Polehinke. The crash is soon blamed on the crew mistakenly turning onto runway 26 rather than the assigned runway 22, with the plane having been unable to get airborne within the confines of the short 3500ft runway. The crash breaks a then unprecedented safety streak among commercial airlines in the United States, the last major accident having been the American Airlines Flight 587 crash in New York nearly five years earlier.
 
2006: Boeing 737-900ER/9GP, is shown, with the first operator being Lion Air.
 
 
 

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