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Soaring 120ft in 12 seconds, Orville and Wilbur created the first plane in South Carolina
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The Write brother's first plane flew more than half an hour, covering nearly 24 miles.
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The army accepted their first airplane from the Write brothers after supassing all of its requirements. $25,000 plus for its speed going at 40 miles per hour, an extra $5,000
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In an air meet at Los Angles, they dropped 2 pound sandbags over targets to practice bombing.
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The army posted its first physical requirements for the air force.
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The British R-34 was the first airplane to gross the entire Atlantic ocean.
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The Navy commissioned the first American-built dirigible, the
Shenandoah, which used inert helium rather than explosive hydrogen
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3 men flew from America to Australia. They covered nearly 7,400 miles. This being the first ever to be done.
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The P–26 became the first all-metal monoplane fighter procured by
the Air Corps and the last Army pursuit airplane with an open cockpit,
fixed landing gear, and external-wire wing bracing. -
The Consolidated B–24 Liberator, a four-engine bomber that could
fly faster and farther than the similarly sized B–17, entered the Air
Corps inventory. More than 18,000 B–24s were produced during
World War II, a greater number than any other U.S. aircraft -
The Army Air Forces launched its first strategic air raid in the
European-African-Middle Eastern theater, -
Strategic Air Command shipped its last Atlas missile to storage
facilities to be used as a launch vehicle in various research and development
programs, completing the phaseout of the first generation
of intercontinental ballistic missiles, all of which were liquid fueled. -
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Mariner 4, reached the vicinity of Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to send close photographs of the "Red Planet" back to Earth.
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The Air Force completed Operation BLUE LIGHT, history’s
largest airlift of troops and equipment into a combat zone & over
3,000 troops of the Army’s 3d Infantry Brigade had flown from
Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, to Pleiku, South Vietnam. -
The Air Force announced a new standard wing structure that
would include four groups: operations, maintenance, missions support,
and medical.
