Aircraft Briefs-Commemorations of Specific Aviation Events

BRIEFS

Quick photo introductions related to specific aviation milestones and events
from the lens and collection of Tom Hildreth.

Click each photo below for related short photo-story


Fifty years ago in aviation:
First Flight of the Boeing B-52H
Stratofortress,6 March, 1961.
A look at the U.S. Air Force's LTV
A-7D Corsair II Service Introduction.
The 76th FIS at
Westover AFB, MA., 1961-1963.

North American
GAM-77/AGM-28 Hound Dog missile.
The MATS Connie visits Westover ARB,
her home base of long ago.
Fifty years ago in aviation:
Cessna Model 336 Skymaster first flight.

Fifty years ago in aviation:
The Northrop SM62 Snark Intercontinental
Missile (ICM) attains operational status.
The USAF Northrop T-38 Talon
supersonic trainer.
The stretched McDonnell-Douglas DC-8
The Super 61 Series.

Jet-airlift matures: The USAF
Lockheed C-141 Starlifter Transport.
Sixty-five years ago in aviation:
TWA's Transatlantic service introduction of
the Lockheed L-079 Constellation.
Twenty-five years ago in aviation:
Precision Airlines becomes part of
Eastern Express, 1 May 1986.

Forty-five years ago in aviation:
The Douglas TA-4F Skyhawk Attack Trainer
enters operational service.
Twenty years ago in aviation:
First flight of the Pilatus PC12.
Fifty years ago in aviation: First Flight of the
Lockheed P-3A Orion Patrol Aircraft.

Fifty years ago in aviation:
Service introduction of the
North American A-5 Vigilante.
Fifty years ago in aviation: Service introduction
of the North American T-39A Sabreliner.
Thirty years ago in aviation:
First flight of the
CASA C.212 Aviocar.

Forty-five years ago in aviation:
First flight of the Beech 99 Airliner.
Thirty-five years ago in aviation:
Command Airways Introduction of the
Shorts SD-330.
Fifty years ago in aviation:
Introduction of the Douglas A-4E Skyhawk
12 July 1961.

Forty years ago in aviation: Delivery of
the first McDonnell Douglas DC-10.
Forty-five years ago in aviation: First flight
of the Douglas DC-9-30.
Fifty years ago in aviation: First flight
of the Bell UH-1DIroquois.

On 5 April 1965 Douglas announced the development
of the DC-8 Super 60 Series.
Thirty Years Ago Today-The Demise of Air New England.
Closeup Study of a Raytheon Whale.

Tweets and Dragons-The Cessna T-37 and A37 Aircraft.
The Grummam F-14 Tomcat.
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