On November 2, 1929, the Ninety-Nines, International Organization of Women Pilots, is founded.
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This month we recognize and celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 - October 15th.
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Capt. Eldon W. Joersz, USAF, became “the fastest man on Earth” when he piloted a Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird at 2,193.16 mph near Beale Air Force Base, Calif., setting a Federation Aeronautique Internationale absolute world record for speed over a straight course that still stands today.
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20 July 1933: At 11:58 a.m. (17:58 UTC) on the fifth day of his solo around-the-world flight, Wiley Post took off from Khabarovsk, Siberia, heading toward Nome, Alaska, 2,416 miles (3,888 kilometers) to the east-northeast (great circle route).
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July 15, 1916: Timber merchant William Edward Boeing (1881–1956) incorporated a company to manufacture a single-engine, float-equipped biplane, opening a small factory in a former boat house on the Duwamish River near Seattle, Washington. Thirty-eight years later, also on July 15, the Boeing Airplane Company launched the commercial jet age with the first flight of the Boeing 707 prototype 367-80.
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June 23, 1931: With Harold Gatty as navigator, pilot Wiley Post took off from Roosevelt Field, N.Y., in a Lockhead Vega dubbed Winnie Mae for an around-the-world flight. Post's eight stop course took him near the Arctic Circle, but his distance of 15,447 miles was too short to receive qualification from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) for a circumnavigation of the globe. His time of 8 days 15 hours 51 minutes was nevertheless faster the official FAI record set by the Graf Zeppelin, and he received great popular international acclaim. Two-years later, Post would repeat the feat without a navigator to become the first to fly solo around the world.
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Ninety years ago, today, Captain Albert Francis Hegenberger, Air Corps, United States Army, flew the very first solo instrument approach and landing, using a system which he developed.
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May 5, 1961: Astronaut Alan Shepard lifted off in the Freedom 7 spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida, embarking on the first crewed space mission for the United States.
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