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December 7, 1936: Death of Jean Mermoz
It was on December 7, 1936, that an aviation icon left us: Jean Mermoz. He is one of the pioneers who made possible the world of aviation as we know it today.
A complicated start as a pilot
If today the...
October 14, 1947: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier
October 14 marks a historic date in aviation history, as it was on this day in 1947 that Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time.
The sound barrier?
Breaking the sound barrier means exceeding the speed of...
July 25, 1909: Louis Blériot crosses the English Channel
It was on July 25, 1909, that Louis Blériot made the first airplane crossing of the English Channel, winning the £1,000.00 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper for the first person to achieve this feat.
Without a flight instrument and...
May 18, 1953: Jacqueline Cochran 1st woman to break the sound barrier!
While the first person to break the sound barrier was Chuck Yeager on October 14, 1947, it wasn't until 1953 that a woman also achieved this feat. She was Jacqueline Cochran, an American who had just turned 46.
Abandoned by...
May 2, 1952: First commercial jet flight
On May 2, 1952, the De Havilland Comet 1 made the first commercial jet flight.
The flight
It was a BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) flight from London to Johannesburg. BOAC is a British airline whose merger with British European Airways...
March 2, 1969: the first flight of the Concorde!
It is on March 2, 1969 that is to say 50 years ago that the Concorde made its first flight.
But how much effort it took to get there.
Both the French and the British had been working since the 1950s...
February 4, 1902: Birth of Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh, one of the monuments of aviation history, was born on February 4th, exactly in 1902, in Detroit. He died on August 26, 1974 in Hawaii on the island of Maui.
He is known for having madethe first non-stop,...