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On this date ...
Feb. 19, 1990: The Scaled
Composites ARES, an
American demonstrator
aircraft built by the company
Scaled Composites,
made its first flight with
company test pilot Doug
Shane at the controls.
ARES is an acronym for
Agile Responsive Effective
Support.

Feb. 25, 1929: The world’s first major air evacuation comes to an
end when Britain’s Royal Air Force flies out the last of 586 civilians
Feb. 20, 1966: Brig. Gen. James M. Stewart, U.S. Air from Kabul to the safety to India. The airlift involves nationals of
Force Reserve, flew the last combat mission of his military about 20 countries. The Kabul Airlift was an air evacuation of
career, a 12 hour, 50 minute “Arc Light” bombing mission British and a number of European diplomatic staff and their families
over Vietnam, aboard Boeing B-52 Stratofortress of the conducted by the Royal Air Force from Kabul between Dec. 28,
736th Bombardment Squadron, 454th Bombardment 1928, and Feb. 25, February 1929.
Wing. His bomber was a B-52F-65-BW, serial number
57-149, call sign GREEN TWO. It was the number two
aircraft in a 30-airplane bomber stream. Stewart, long a
star of Hollywood, retired from the U.S. Air Force on June
1, 1968, after 27 years of service.
Feb. 22, 1974: U. S. Navy Lieutenant
j.g. Barbara Ann Allen received her
wings of gold as the first female to
be designated a naval aviator, and
was the first woman to qualify as
Feb. 20, 1962: Less than a year after Gagarin became a jet pilot. On July 13, 1982, Allen,
the first man to orbit the Earth, John Glenn became the along with trainee, Ensign Donald
first American to do so, completing three orbits around the Bruce Knowlton, was practicing
planet aboard the Friendship 7 capsule. Glenn was already touch-and-go landings at Middleton
a military hero by the time he was chosen to be an astronaut Field near Evergreen, Ala., when
for Project Mercury. After he completed his mission, he went the aircraft banked sharply, lost Feb. 25, 1975: Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager flew his final
on to a successful political career as senator from Ohio. He altitude, and crashed. Allen and Air Force sortie at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.,
made history again at the age of 77 in 1998 by becoming Knowlton were both killed in the in an F-4C Phantom II (s/n 63-7264) before retiring
the oldest person, at that time, to fly into space when he crash. She is buried at Arlington from the service on March 1. Yeager was conducting
flew on the space shuttle. National Cemetery. a safety inspection of Edwards at the time.

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