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On This Day: August 29

Aviation events for August 29

1879: In Ontario, Nellie Thurston becomes the first Canadian woman to fly in a balloon.
 
1909: At the end of a two-day flight from Lake Constance during which Count von Zeppelin travels a total distance of more than 400 miles, he makes a spectacular flight in his dirigible LZ5 over the city of Berlin, Germany.
 
1911: Mrs. A. Hewlett is the first British woman to gain a pilot’s license.
 
1929: Graf Zeppelin sets down at Lakehurst, New Jersey to complete its circumnavigation of the globe.
 
1931: Graf Zeppelin completes the first flight between Germany and Brazil.
 
1955: W.F. Gibb flies on Olympus-engined Canberra B.2 to a world record altitude of 65,889 ft.
 
1958: The United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
 
1959: Lockheed and Convair submit proposals for Mach 3+ reconnaissance aircraft.
 
1966: First flight of the McDonnell Douglas DC-8-62.
 
1970: First flight of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10.
 
1983: First flight of the Beech Model 115 Starship.
 
1996: Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154M (reg RA-85621) operating a charter flight from Moscow to Svalbard, Norway, crashes into a mountain after the crew botches the approach to Svalbard, killing all 141 on board. It is the deadliest crash ever to occur in Norway.
 
1997: A Cubana de Aviación Tupolev Tu-154 crashed during takeoff into buildings in Quito, Ecuador. Seventy-five of the 90 people on board died as well as 10 on the ground.
 
2005: Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) is impacted by Hurricane Katrina, but suffering no flooding. The airport would reopen to supply and rescue flights by the following day, with commercial cargo flights resuming September 10th and passenger flights restarting on September 13th.
 
2007: Airmen at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota load six nuclear-tipped AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles onto a B-52H bomber for transport to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana without ensuring that the nuclear warheads had been replaced with training warheads. The nukes shoot the breeze without proper handling or security precautions in place for a full 36 hours before anyone notices. The Pentagon would classify it as a “Bent Spear” event, four USAF commanders would lose their jobs and many other airmen would be disciplined.
 
 
 

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