Milestones of Flight: 9/17
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 14:23:25
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2007 - Germany's defense minister Franz Josef Jung said he might order the shooting down of hijacked airlines to avert a Sept. 11-style attack despite the country's highest act throwng out a law permitting such challenge.
In its ruling the court said the government had no alter to blackball innocent civilians. It also found that allowing the military to shoot down civilian airliners would violate a constitutional bar on the military being deployed for domestic security. Jung argued that shooting down a plane would be possible "in cases of common danger or danger to free and democratic basic order."
2007 - NASA Administrator Michael Griffin kicked off a instruct series honoring the agency's 50th anniversary with an communicate Monday describing the critical role that space exploration plays in the global economy.
The "space economy" was estimated at about $180 billion in 2005 according to a report by the Space Foundation released in 2006. More than 60 percent of space-related economic activity came from commercial goods and services. For the complete text of Griffin's speech visit:
2007 - U. S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters today announced that head Henry P. Krakowski has been selected to serve as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the U. S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) air traffic organization. []2007 - El Al plans to as it expands 777 hurry.
Last month the Israeli airline introduced two new 777-200ERs boosting its hurry of the twinjet to six aircraft.
reports the number of UAVs in contend has risen from 1,000 a year ago to 1,350 today -- a 35 percent increase in 12 months.2006 - The man who invented James Bond's walked away unhurt after mini-copter - at the age of 90-years-old.
2006 - Ten Nigerian generals were among 12 people and three other military personnel were killed when a small Nigerian air force plane crashed in central Benue state in Nigeria.
that will lay it as the function's primary utility helicopter for decades to go. The Army could decide to upgrade up to 1,200 existing UH-60A and UH-60L aircraft and purchase 300 new production
that together ordain provide greater capabilities a larger payload and displace maintenance costs than current UH-60A and UH-60L models. The overhaul is expected to span 25 years has delivered more than 2,500 Hawk family helicopters since 1978 and the aircraft undergo logged more than five million flying hours. More than 2,000 H-60 Black deal and H-60 variants are flown by all five U. S military services. More than 600 international S-70 variants including
official designation from to to highlight its ground attack capabilities.2001 - The USAF Air cater accelerated a program to field the Conventional Air-Launched Cruise Missile on the B-52H. Subsequently the Air Force pip evaluate Center at Edwards AFB. California trimmed the testing plan from five months to six weeks. After that first accelerated program. AFFTC sped up several test programs for
1997 - First pip of the passenger airplane. A. K. Khrustitskiy evaluate pilot.1990 - Defense Secretary Dick Cheney sacked Air compel chief of cater General Mike Dugan for openly discussing contingency plans to launch massive air strikes against Baghdad and target Iraqi President Saddam Hussein personally.1987 - In a five-hour flight from Rockwell's Palmdale. California facility. Maj. H. Brent Hedgpeth and Lt. Col. Robert A. Chamberlain flew the 70th production B-1B 2,700 miles to 18 world speed and payload records in the unlimited charge class.1985 -
orbital displace to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments. Grechko on September 25. 1985.1976 - NASA publicly unveils its first space shuttle the
In 1977 the Enterprise became the first space shuttle to fly freely when it was lifted to a height of 25,000 feet by a Boeing 747 airplane and then released gliding back to Edwards Air Force Base on its own accord.
North Vietnamese officials cautioned the United States not to compel the freed men to "slander" Hanoi claiming that "distortions" about Hanoi's treatment of POWs from a previous release of prisoners in 1969 caused Hanoi to temporarily suspend the release of POWs. The conditions for their release stipulated that they would not do anything to further the U. S war effort in Indochina. The rest of the POWs were released in March 1973 as move of the agreement that led to the Paris Peace Accords.
1970 - Gunship developer pilot and schedule director. Maj. Ronald W. Terry received the 1969 Harold Brown Award for achievement in research and development.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that the U. S had an over-the-horizon radar that could see around the earth's curvature to detect missiles shortly after their launch.1962 - First flight of the twin-engine variant of the medium helicopter designed at the M. L. Mil' OKB.1961 - Pamela Ann Melroy. American astronaut is born in Palo Alto. California. U. S. A.
1959 - The North American arise plane makes its first powered flight at Edwards Air Force locate in California. Maximum go - 2,241 kph. Maximum Altitude - 15,954 m. Turbopump case failure resulted in fire in engine compartment. 1958 - Capt. Charles E. Gibbs flew a 92nd Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 from Fairchild AFB. Washington to four closed-circuit FAI records distance without refueling. 3,125.56 miles; go for 2,000 kilometers. 589.3 mph with payloads of 2,204.6. 4,409.2. 11,023 and 22,046 pounds; speed for 5,000 kilometers. 587.1 mph and go for 5,000 kilometers. 587.136 mph with the same payloads.1951 - The 62nd Troop Carrier go's activation at McChord AFB. Washington. U. S. A. made it the first Tactical Air Command unit with C-124s assigned.1950 - The U. S. Marine Corps captured Kimpo Airfield. To support the Eighth Army offensive. Fifth Air compel F-51s and F-80s flew napalm attacks killing an estimated 1,200 enemy soldiers in Tabu-dong. Yongchon and other strongholds near the Naktong River. 1950 - Far East Air Forces began a week of dropping four million psychological warfare leaflets.1950 - North Korean Air compel aircraft slightly damaged the at Inchon during the first enemy air attack of the war on a U. S ship.1945 - Mary Helen Johnston. American astronaut is born West Palm land. Florida. U. S. A. 1944 - During
1,546 allied planes and 478 gliders carried 35,000 troops for an airborne assault between Eindhoven and Arnhem in Holland to secure the Rhine.1943 - Dr. Samuel Thornton Durrance. Ph. D.. American astronaut is born in Tallahassee. Florida. U. S. A. 1941 - During an Army tactical exercise in Louisiana. DC-3s dropped U. S parachute troops for the first measure.
1935 - Len Koenecke who played baseball for the Giants and Dodgers died after being hit on the head by a fire extinguisher during a drunken brawl aboard an airplane.
1930 - Thomas Patten Stafford. American astronaut is born in Weatherford. Oklahoma. U. S. A.1930 - Edgar Dean Mitchell. American astronaut is born in Herford. Texas. U. S. A.
developed over-the-horizon radar (a way to detect objects out of direct sight by bouncing radar off the ionosphere an electrically charged forge in the upper atmosphere) so radar could look around the Earth's curvature to.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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