Nov. 25, 1940: First flight of the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito, a British twin-engine, shoulder-winged multirole combat aircraft, took place. Introduced during the World War…
Nov. 18, 1930: The Boeing XP-9 made its first flight. The XP-9 was the first monoplane fighter aircraft produced by Boeing. It…
Nov. 11, 1918: Fighting in World War I ended at 11am as the Allies and Germany signed an armistice in…
Oct Nov. 4, 1990: During the first official demonstration of its supercruise capability, the Northrop-McDonnell Douglas YF-23A No. 1 accelerated…
Oct. 21, 1947: The YB-49, tail number 42-102367, took off from Northrop Field in Hawthorne, Calif., with Northrop Chief Test…
Sept. 16, 1944: An experimental air-to-ground rocket testing area was set up on the bombing range in response to an…
Aug. 26, 1944: The Martin AM Mauler made its first flight. This was a single-seat carrier-based attack aircraft built for the U.S. States Navy….
Aug. 19, 1940: At Mines Field (now known as Los Angeles International Airport), the first North American Aviation B-25 twin-engine…
Aug. 12, 1908: With Thomas Baldwin as pilot and Glenn Curtiss as flight engineer, test flights began for Signal Corps…
July 22, 1955: The Republic XF-84HThunderscreech made its first flight. The Thunderscreech was an experimental turboprop aircraft derived from the†F-84F…
