On This Day in Aviation History
1909 – Birth of Noel Francis Parrish, U.S. Air Force pilot, commander of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II and brigadier general after the Korean War. 1935 – Man first sees the Earth’s curvature when the National Geographic Society and the U.S. Army Air Corps launch their new helium-filled, high-altitude balloon “Explorer II.” It […]