1910 – Paul Engelhard makes the first flight in Switzerland, flying a Wright biplane from a frozen lake at St. Moritz.
1914 – Edward O’Hare, American pilot, is born; he was an aviator of the U.S. Navy who became the service’s first flying ace in 1942 and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II.
1928 – The first Canadian woman to become a licensed pilot was Eileen Volick, passing her private pilot’s license in Hamilton, Ont.
1951 – Qantas begins a survey flight from Rose Bay, Sydney, to Valparaiso, Chile, with a Consolidated PBY Catalina (VH–ASA); it is the first air crossing of the South Pacific.
1961 – McDonnell delivers the last of 807 F-101 Voodoos to the U.S. Air Force.
1992 – Two Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses fly to Ryanzan Air Base near Moscow in exchange for a visit to the U.S. by three Russian-built bombers: a pair of Tupolev TU-95 Bears and a TU-160 Blackjack (shown above) from the Commonwealth of Independent States.
