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On This Day: August 31

Aviation events for August 31

1956: First flight of the Boeing KC-135A Strato Tanker.
 
1956: The Avro Vulcan enters operational service with No. 83 Squadron RAF.
 
1958: First flight of the North American A-5 Vigilante.
 
1965: The Aero Spacelines B-377-SG/SGT Super Guppy makes its maiden flight.
 
1966: First flight of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier.
 
1968: Rolls-Royce powers up their new RB211 jet engine for the first time. Designed to power the Lockheed L-1011, future versions would be offered for the Boeing 747 and 757, the Tupolev Tu-204-120 and for re-enginging of the B-52H Stratofortress bomber.
 
1969: Former heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano is killed when the Cessna 172 he is on hits a tree two miles short of Newton Municipal Airport in Iowa while attempting to land during bad weather, also killing the pilot and another passenger. The crash is blamed on the pilot’s inexperience in Instrument Meteorological Conditions and night flying.
 
1977: A Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 reaches a record altitude of 123,523.62 ft. (23.39 miles) over Podmoskovnoye, USSR.
 
1986: Aeromexico Flight 498, a Douglas DC-9, while on approach to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) collides with a Piper PA-28-181 Archer over Cerritos, California. Both planes plummet to the earth, killing all 64 people on the DC-9, all three people on the Piper and 15 people on the ground.
 
1988: Delta 1141, Crashed after takeoff bound for Salt Lake City, Utah. Officials believe the crash was contributed to by improper configuration of the flaps and leading edge slats.
 
1998: North Korea launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng.
 
1999: LAPA Flight 3142, a Boeing 737-200, crashes on takeoff from Buenos Aires, killing 65 and injuring 34. The crash is blamed on the crew not properly extending flaps for departure.
 
2003: Kam Air (Afghanistan) is founded.
 
 
 

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