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* [[2007 in aviation|2007]] – First flight of the [[Boeing X-48]]
* [[2007 in aviation|2007]] – First flight of the [[Boeing X-48]]

* [[2005 in aviation|2005]] – First flight of the [[Grob G180 SPn]]


* [[2004 in aviation|2004]] – Aerocomp Comp Air Jet
* [[2004 in aviation|2004]] – Aerocomp Comp Air Jet

Revision as of 18:22, 21 November 2012

July 20

  • 2008 – (20–26) 16th FAI World Rally Flying Championship
  • 2004 – Aerocomp Comp Air Jet
  • 1992 – Round World Air Race begins in Paris.
  • 1976 – America’s Viking I robot spacecraft made a successful, first-ever landing on Mars.
  • 1974 – The Turkish Air Force supports Operation Atilla, a Turkish invasion of Cyprus, as a war over the island between Turkey and Greece and the Greek Cypriots breaks out. Turkish aircraft join with Turkish Navy in sinking a Greek Cypriot torpedo boat which attempts to attack the approaching Turkish naval flotilla, and Turkish aircraft support the amphibious landing.
  • 1948 – Sixteen Lockheed Shooting Stars complete the first west to east transatlantic flight by jet aircraft.
  • 1945 – 473 B-29 s drop 3,255 tons (2,952,917 kg) of bombs on Fukui and other cities in Japan.
  • 1944 – Saipan-based U. S. Navy PB4Y-1 Liberators of Bomber Squadron 109 (VB-109) again strike Iwo Jima, Chichi Jima, and Haha Jima. During the strikes of July 14, 15, and 20, they claim between 10 and 30 Japanese aircraft destroyed on the ground.
  • 1944 – Flying Fortresses of US 8th Air Force attack Leipzig / Dessau.
  • 1944 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sinks by US air attack.
  • 1944 – Liberators of US 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim / Eisenach.
  • 1944 – US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen.
  • 1943 – U. S. aircraft strike the escorts of a Japanese convoy in New Georgia Sound, sinking two destroyers and damaging the heavy cruiser Kumano.
  • 1940 – The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan began operations when students started training at No. 1 Service Flying Training School at Camp Borden, Ontario.
  • 1940 – Fleet Air Arm Swordfish of No. 813 Squadron conduct another torpedo strike against Tobruk, sinking two Italian destroyers.
  • 1939 – Canada’s first North American Harvards No.’s 1321 & 1322 were delivered to RCAF Sea IsIand.
  • 1927 – Lindbergh begins NY flight (Spirit of St Louis).
  • 1908 – Orville Wright warns Glenn Curtiss that the wing flaps used in the AEA’s June Bug are an infringement of the Wrights’ patent.