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June 18, 1981: The prototype Lockheed
YF-117A Nighthawk, piloted by “Skunk
Works” pilot Hal Farley, made its first
June 15, 1946: The U.S. Navy’s Flight
Demonstration Team made its first public June 17, 1986: A B-47E-25-DT Stratojet made the flight at a classified remote location. The
June 12, 1979: The Rutan Long-EZ made its first appearance at Craig Field, Jacksonville, Fla., very last flight of a B-47, when it was flown from Naval prototype aircraft was the world’s first
flight. The Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ is a tandem at the municipal airport’s dedication ceremony. Air Weapons Station China Lake, Calif., to Castle Air “stealth” fighter.
2-seater homebuilt aircraft designed by Burt A flight of three lightened Grumman F6F-5 Force Base, Calif., to be placed on static display.
Rutan’s Rutan Aircraft Factory. The Long-EZ Hellcat fighters flew a 15-minute aerobatic The aircraft, built by the Douglas Aircraft Company
has a canard layout, with a swept wing with root performance. The fighters were painted overall at Air Force Plant 3 in Tulsa, Okla., in 1952, had not
leading edge strakes and wingtip rudders, and a glossy sea blue with “U.S. NAVY” on the flown in 20 years. It had sat in the Mojave Desert
pusher engine and propeller. The tricycle landing fuselage in gold leaf. A single numeral, also serving as a radar target. A total of 2,032 B-47s
gear has fixed main wheels with streamlined spats, gold leaf, on the vertical fin identified each were built by a consortium of aircraft manufacturers:
and a retractable nosewheel. In this photograph, a individual airplane. Five weeks later, on July Boeing Airplane Company, Wichita, Kansas; Douglas
Rutan Long-EZ, built by Bill Allen in 1984, takes off 21, the team would first call themselves the Aircraft Company, Tulsa; and the Lockheed Aircraft
in Gloucestershire, England. Blue Angels. Company, Marietta, Ga.

June 12, June 16, 1954: Lockheed test pilot
1986: The Herman “Fish” Salmon took the XFV-1
Grumman X-29A on its first flight at Edwards Air Force
completed Base, Calif. The XFV-1 was designed
four sorties for vertical takeoff and landing. Because
in one day, a its large Allison YT-40A-14 turboprop June 18, 1983: Sally Ride became the first
remarkable engine was not configured for sustained U.S. woman in space when she launched
achievement for vertical flight, the aircraft made all of its aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on
a one-of-a-kind 32 test flights from a horizontal stance mission STS-7. Ride was selected to be
experimental with temporary landing gear. an astronaut as part of NASA Astronaut
aircraft. Group 8, in 1978, the first class to select
women. She eventually spent more than
343 hours in space.

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