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On This Day In Aviation History
On this blog, V2 Aviation will post interesting facts about dates in aviation history.
Aviation has come a long way since Leonardo da Vinci drew his Vitruvian Man around 1490, now a well-known image in Human Factors. Or what to think about the famous helicopter the "aerial screw" he drew in the late 1480s?
Historical facts from the history books of aviation, you'll find them on this page! A look back, like the background picture.
Just a short read, not more than a couple of minutes of your time.
Come back regularly to learn some interesting aviation facts!
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Aug 16, 20223 min read
17th of August 2012, Blog # 509
An Embraer ERJ 190-100 IGW was operating a domestic flight in Taiwan between the cities of Taipei and Magong. 104 passengers were booked...
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Aug 15, 20222 min read
16th of August 2010, Blog #508
With 10 passengers and one pilot, a Fairchild Industries Inc. SA226-TC (Metro II) lifted off from the runway at Perth (Australia) at...
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Aug 14, 20222 min read
15th of August 2014, Blog #507
With a crew of two and one passenger, a British Aerospace 3102 Jetstream 31 was operating a flight from Belfast City Airport (Northern...
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Aug 13, 20223 min read
14th of August 2018, Blog #506
After an (unscheduled) engine change at Groningen Airport (the Netherlands), a Douglas DC-3 had made an uneventful flight to Linköping...
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Aug 12, 20222 min read
13th of August 2003, Blog #505
A Let L-410 was operating a charter flight on behalf of a humanitarian agency. The aircraft had a crew of two and three passengers, on...
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Aug 11, 20222 min read
12th of August 2010, Blog #504
An Airbus A319-111 was operating a scheduled passenger flight from Baku-Heydar Aliyev International Airport (Azerbaijan) to...
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Aug 10, 20222 min read
11th of August 1992, Blog #503
With 163 passengers and a crew of 12, a Boeing 767-200ER took off from London Heathrow (England) on a scheduled passenger flight to New...
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Aug 9, 20223 min read
10th of August 2020, blog #502
A Fokker 100 (Fokker F28 Mk.100) was scheduled to operate a passenger flight between the cities of Perth and Geraldton, both in...
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Aug 8, 20222 min read
9th of August 2013, blog #501
After an uneventful flight from Stockholm (Sweden) an Antonov AN-12BK was being prepared at Leipzig/Halle Airport (Germany) for its next...
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V2Aviation
Aug 7, 20223 min read
8th of August 2000, the 500th V2 Aviation Blog!
A McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 was in the initial climb out of Greensboro/High Point-Piedmont Triad International Airport (North Carolina,...
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V2Aviation
Aug 6, 20223 min read
7th of August 2012
After a 'C-check' maintenance inspection a Boeing 757 was on its third test flight after the maintenance was completed. The previous 2...
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Aug 5, 20223 min read
6th of August 2013
At 20.03 lt (local time) on this day in 2013, a Boeing 737-800 took off from Makassar-Sultan Hasannuddin Airport (Indonesia) with a crew...
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Aug 4, 20224 min read
5th of August 2013
A Boeing 737-900 was operating a scheduled passenger flight from Incheon Airport (Seoul, South Korea) to Niigata Airport (Japan). With...
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Aug 3, 20222 min read
4th of August 2016
A Boeing 737-3H4 was being prepared for a domestic flight in the USA from Baltimore (Maryland) to Atlanta (Georgia). Onboard the more...
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Aug 2, 20222 min read
3rd of August 2008
With 7 parachutists on board, the engines of a Beechcraft 65-A90 King Air were started and the pilot taxied the aircraft to the runway at...
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Aug 1, 20222 min read
2nd of August 2000
When a forest fire in the area of Tadoule Lake (Lac Brochet, Manitoba, Canada) threatened an outpost two float-equipped aircraft were...
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Jul 31, 20222 min read
1st of August 2019
A Douglas C-118A Liftmaster (DC-6A) was operating a freight flight from Fairbanks International Airport to Candle 2 Airport, both in the...
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Jul 30, 20222 min read
31st of July 1987
A prototype Fokker 100 (Fokker F.28 Mk.100) was scheduled for a test flight, from and to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on this day in 1987....
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Jul 29, 20223 min read
30th of July 1992
With 280 passengers and 12 crew onboard, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStarwas being repaired for a scheduled flight from New York John F. Kennedy...
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Jul 28, 20222 min read
29th of July 2011
A Boeing 777-200 had operated an uneventful flight from Madina (Saudi Arabia) and was parked at Terminal 2 of Cairo International Airport...
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