Canadian airline JetsGo stops going in 2005, while China’s Okay Airlines takes to the air the previous year. Japan gets their first 767 AWACS, a B-47 jettisons a nuke, heavy payload record for Flying Tigers and more.

An agreement to continue Air Jamaica operations under the Caribbean Airlines brand goes into effect next month, but the Jamaican government is now being forced to modify the terms of the deal in anticipation of even bigger changes for the region.

The X-15 exceeds Mach 4 in 1961, MC Garlow, becomes the first to fly a million jet miles, A British engineer flies in an inflatable airplane, and the crashes of Northwest Flight 307, Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 and a Skymaster Airlines 707.

Allegiant Air service will soon extend beyond the mainland to Hawaii, thanks to the purchase of six 757s to be delivered over the next two years.

Some passengers really do LUV Southwest: a Delaware man was arrested and charged with obscene and indecent exposure in Denver after he dismounted a flight on Monday.

Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 overruns at Burbank, launches of Landsat 3 and Explorer 2, crashes of BOAC 911, Palair Macedonian 301, Lake Central, first flight of the Spitfire and lots more.

Boeing’s pitch for the US Air Force’s latest tanker competition will be a 767-based jet retrofitted with displays from the state-of-the-art 787 flight deck, among other improvements.