This B-47 Stratojet and its JATO bottles coughs its way into the sky, giving the runway some second-hand smoke.

2005 – Canadian low-cost airline JetsGo grinds to a halt as they cease operations and file for bankruptcy protection. The airline had 14 MD-83s and 15 Fokker 100s, which were used to serve 29 scheduled destinations in North America.

2004 – Chinese charter airline Okay Airlines begins operations. Their fleet currently consists of eight Boeing 737 variants and a single Xian MA-60.

1998 – Japan receives their first two Boeing E-767 AWACS (Airborne Warning And Control System) jets. They had ordered four of the type.

1982 – Winderoe Flight 933, a Twin Otter (LN-BNK) crashes into the Barents Sea after structural failure of the aircraft’s tail due to severe clear-air turbulence. All 15 on the aircraft perish.

1957 – A Boeing 707 prototype aircraft flies from Seattle, Washington to Baltimore, Maryland (2,350 miles) in 3 hours 48 minutes.

1958 – Boeing B-47E Stratojet, 53-1876, and an F-86 Sabre collide during a training mission. The damaged B-47 is forced to jettison a nuclear weapon casing. Because there’s no fuel capsule installed on the bomb, there is no nuclear detonation. The bomb would never be found.

1941 – A record for heaviest payload for a commercial aircraft is set by a Lockheed Super constellation flying for Flying Tiger Lines from Newark, New Jersey to Burbank, California.

1910 – The D5 tail-less biplane is tested in England by Lieutenant J.W. Dunne with a 60-horsepower Green engine.