Time to see which first flight anniversaries are coming up in the New Year (a few selected examples):
January 6, 1958 – Gloster Javelin T.3
February 27, 1958 – Morane-Saulnier MS 760A Paris
March 3, 1958 – Hawker Hunter T.8
March 25, 1958 – Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
March ?, 1958, – Saunders-Roe Skeeter Mk 50
April 3, 1958 – EE Lightning P 1B
April 9, 1958 – Convair Delta Dart
April 27, 1958 – DH Comet 4
April 30, 1958 – Blackburn NA 39 (later named Buccaneer)
May 9, 1958 – Gloster Javelin F(AW) 8
May 12, 1958 – Dassault Mirage III
May 18, 1958 – Sud-Est Caravelle 1
May 22, 1958 – Vertol 107
May 22, 1958 – Sikorsky S-62
May 27, 1958 – McDonnell F4H-1 Phantom II
May 30, 1958 – Douglas DC-8 Series 10
June 3, 1958 – Chance Vought XF8U-3 Super Crusader III
June 9, 1958 – Agusta AZ8-L
June 15, 1958 – Westland Westminster
June 20, 1958 – Westland Wessex HAS Mk 1
July 20, 1958- Saunders-Roe P.531
July 27, 1958 – Short Bros & Harland Canberra PR.9
July 30, 1958 – DHC Caribou
August 14, 1958 – Grumman Gulfstream 1
August 19, 1958 – Avro Vulcan B2
August 19, 1958 – Lockheed Model 186 (later named Orion)
August 27, 1958 – Nanchang CJ-6
September 19, 1958 – Kaman H-43 Huskie
November 20, 1958 – Lockheed C-130B Hercules
December 4, 1958 – VEB BB-152 (East Germany)
Something for everyone!
Happy New Year to all my invisible friends on the Forum!
Papa Lima
By: Papa Lima - 26th December 2007 at 10:52
Thanks; XL391, I have spent about 8 years assembling a list of first flights of protortypes and first production aircraft and relevant data, which now reside on my computer, on CDs as back-up and also filling 5 binders – I haven’t counted, but there must be 10,000 or more dates in my list! All culled from reference books and magazines. This is my main hobby, apart from being a voluntary guide at the underground Aeroseum here in Gothenburg. I work full time, so it is a very sporadic task!
Here is the entry for the Vulcan B.2:
August 19, 1958
Woodford, Manchester, UK
4-jet bomber
Sources:
Text: AV pp. 78, 171; BB p. 384; JE W99 p. 26; MCA11 pp. 58, 62
Illn: Avro Vulcan B2 XH533
1st of 6 pre-production and development aircraft, Avro Set 1
4 x 17 000 lb st Rolls-Royce Olympus 201 turbojets
Designer: Stuart Davies, Chief designer
Flew at SBAC Show Farnborough, September 1-7, 1958.
Delivered March 26, 1959. Transferred to Controller (Aircraft).
Broken up at St Athan in 1970.
Details I am still looking for concerning this aircraft are the crew on board during the first flight, and a thumbnail photo of the aircraft itself, along with the rest of its service history.
Happy New year!
Papa Lima
By: XL391 - 26th December 2007 at 02:12
21st November – would have been me!! Great list by the way, must have took a lot of research of either the WWW or your own memory banks! Excellent!! I wasn’t aware of the EE P1B or Vulcan B2, two aircraft very, very close to my heart. Very happy I now know!! And not forgetting, all the very best chaps!! 😀
By: Camlobe - 26th December 2007 at 02:01
September 30th, 1958 – me.
camlobe
By: Eric Mc - 25th December 2007 at 16:20
21 May 1958 – me!
By: lotus72 - 24th December 2007 at 21:12
September 3, 1958 — me !!!
By: Resmoroh - 24th December 2007 at 15:46
It might also be worthy of note that the papers on the U2 prang at Akrotiri (8 Dec 77) are due to be released by the National Archives under the 30-year Rule in Jan 08. If they aren’t then the conspiracy theorists will have a field day!
Yrs Aye
Resmoroh
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