XB-47 test flight, later to become the B-47 Stratojet.

1972 – Aeroflot and Lufthansa teamed up to operate joint Moscow-Frankfurt flights.

1972 – Airlines in the United States began mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage.

1962 – A United States Navy Sikorsky HSS-2 Sea King set the world helicopter speed record of 210.6 mph on a flight between Milford and New Haven, Connecticut.

1958 – A B-47 Stratojet on a simulated training exercise out of Homestead Air Force base in Florida collided with an F-86 Sabre. The bomber was carrying a 7,600-pound hydrogen bomb, which was jettisoned in an effort to reduce weight for a safe landing. The Sabre pilot ejected, the B-47 plane made it to Hunter Army Airfield safely, and the bomb, let go into the Atlantic Ocean, was never found. If found, please contact the United States Air Force.

1951 – The United States and Canada announced the implementation of the Distant Early Warning (DEW), the air defense system that uses more than 30 radar stations located across the northern portion of North America.

1949 – An Eastern Air Lines Lockheed Constellation land at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, setting s a coast-to-coast record flight of 6 hours 18 minutes from Los Angeles for transport aircraft.

1946 – TWA begins transatlantic service with the Lockheed Constellation flying the New York-Gander-Shannon-Paris route.

1929 – Aviators Frank Hawks and Oscar Grubb landed their Lockheed Air Express in New York after a record flight of 18 hours 20 minutes from Los Angeles.

1920 – The Royal Air Force College was established in Cranwell, Licolnshire.

1919 – The world’s first scheduled passenger airline service in the world was launched at Berlin’s city airfield. German airline “Deutsche Luft Reederei” first flight operated from Berlin to Weimar via Leipzig. They were the first to use what we now know as Lufthansa’s “crane in the sun” logo, designed by Professor Otto Firle.