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March 5, 1946:
Winston Churchill
delivered his “Iron
Curtain” speech at
Westminster College
in Fulton, Mo., in
which he said: “From
Stettin in the Baltic, to
Trieste in the Adriatic,
an `iron curtain’ has March 6, 1990: A U.S. Air Force SR-71 Blackbird,
descended across tail number 61-7972, flew its final mission, setting
the continen t, three Fédération Aéronautique Internationale in
allowing police the process. The aircraft left Air Force Plant 42 in
governments to rule Palmdale, Calif., with Lt. Col. Raymond E. “Ed”
Eastern Europe.” Yeilding and Lt. Col. Joseph T. “J.T.” Vida, at the
controls. After takeoff from Palmdale, the aircraft
headed offshore for refueling from a KC-135. The March 7, 1961: The X-15 (s/n 56-6671) became the first
plane entered the “west gate,” a radar reference aircraft in the world to reach Mach 4 when U.S. Air Force
point over Oxnard on the Southern California test pilot Maj. Robert M. White took the research plane to
coast, then headed east to Washington Dulles Mach 4.43 (2,905 mph) in the first flight with an XLR-99
International Airport in Washington, D.C. The rocket engine. The total duration of the flight, from the air
transcontinental flight, a distance of 2,404.05 drop from the Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress carrier, 52-
statute miles, took 1 hour, 7 minutes, 53.69 008, to touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., was
seconds, for an average of 2,124.51 miles per 8 minutes, 34.1 seconds.
hour.

March 10, 1948: NACA test
March 6, 1985: The Rockwell International-built Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV- pilot Herbert Henry Hoover
104) is rolled out in Palmdale, Calif. It would later be transported, overland, becomes the first civilian to
to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., for delivery to the Kennedy Space Center exceed the speed of sound
in Florida. After flying 33 missions, it was decommissioned and is now on when he flies the No. 2 Bell
display at Kennedy. XS-1 to a speed of 703 mph
(Mach 1.065). Hoover was
awarded the Air Medal ”for
meritorious achievement
while participating in aerial
March 6, 1998: The Bell Helicopter Eagle Eye, Model 918 made its first flight. The Eagle Eye was an American tiltrotor flight.” During his short
unmanned aerial vehicle that was offered as one of the competitors in the U.S. Navy’s VT-UAV (Vertical Takeoff-Unmanned Aerial career with NACA, Hoover
Vehicle) program. The program began in 1993 with the TR911X 7/8th scale prototype. The composite airframe was originally completed more than a
designed and built for Bell by Scaled Composites in Mojave, Calif. dozen supersonic flights.

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