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On this date ....
Feb. 5, 1918:
Stephen W.
Thompson
becomes the
first American
aviator to
shoot down
an enemy
aircraft.
Thompson
was flying
as gunner
on a French
aircraft.

Feb. 9, 1969: The Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet makes its first flight. Despite no longer being in
Feb. 7, 1984: Space shuttle Challenger commercial service, and Boeing’s announcement it would cease 747 production in 2022, there
astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. are several 747 aircraft still in service including VC-25, the U.S. Air Force VIP version of the
Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk, aircraft used to fly the U.S. president and known by the call sign Air Force One (used when
which lasted nearly six hours. The STS-11 the president is on board); the E-4 Advanced Airborne Command Post flown by the U.S. Air
mission launched Feb. 3, and landed Feb. 11, Force; and the NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), based in
after deploying two communications satellites. Palmdale, Calif. While NASA’s space shuttle program was operational, NASA operated two
specially modified 747s as Shuttle Carrier Aircraft; used to transport the shuttles from the
landing site at Edwards AFB, Calif., back to the launch site in Florida.
Feb. 10,
1962: The Feb. 11, 1945: Consolidated
Soviet Union Vultee Aircraft Corporation’s
exchanged XP-81 made its first flight
captured at Muroc, piloted by Frank
American U-2 Davis. The XP-31 was a
pilot Francis single seat, long range escort
Gary Powers fighter that combined use of
Feb. 5, 1971: Apollo 14, third U.S. manned for Rudolf both turbojet and turboprop
Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Abel, a Soviet engines. Although promising,
Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo spy held by the lack of suitable engines,
14) walk on Moon for 4 hours. the United combined with the end of World
States. War II, doomed the project.

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