Aviation the day you were born.

If anyone can find an aviation link for Feb 17th 1963 please feel free to let me know ,otherwise these high fliers were making music on that day
http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1963/63.02.17%20tedding/63.02.17teddington.html

6/10/67

http://189thahc.org/189th_unit_history.html

6 October 1967: On a FOB-2 mission aircraft 6R-171 received several rounds. Pilot, Captain Shiver Eustice received wounds in leg and arm and was evacuated to the 18th Surgical Hospital. The aircraft was left at Dak To and arrangements were made for return by CH47. Avenger 694 received small arms fire, but in retaliation the avengers were given credit for 27 confirmed NVA kills.

Here’s an image taken on my actual birth day

Moggy

I was born on 31 December 1939 (and have been Grumpy ever since! :rolleyes:), these events also took place:

Goebbels delivered his New Year address to Germany.:eek:

First flight of the Tairov Ta-3 twin-engined single-seat escort fighter designed and produced in the Ukrainian SSR.

The first prototype SNCASE SE.400-01 made its maiden flight from Marignane.

Oh, and there was a war on, too!

July 27 1966 at the National Women’s Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand

Evidently, nothing much happened on that day.

St Patrick’s Day and I did find this anniversary – Amelia Earhart’s first round-the-world attempt On St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 1937, she and her crew flew the first leg from Oakland, California to Honolulu.

For a moment there I thought you were on about the ’44 raid which confused me a bit.

I’m glad to see in a non conforntational way that most of you are older than me….:) Mind you at 57 I could be dead tomorrow….:(

Heres mine

16/17 March 1945

Raid on Nuremburg by 231 Lancasters of No 1 Group and 46 Lancasters and 16 Mosquitos of No 8 Group. 24 Lancasters, all from No 1 Group, lost, 8.7 per cent of the Lancaster force and 10.4 per cent of the No 1 Group aircraft involved. Most of these losses were due to German night fighters, which found the bomber stream on its way to the target. A local report states that the southern and south-western districts were hit as well as the ruins of the Altstadt which was destroyed in a previous raid. A serious fire was established in the Steinbuhl district. The main railway station was also on fire and the city’s gasworks were so badly damaged that they did not resume production before the end of the war. This was the last heavy Bomber Command raid on Nuremberg.

225 Lancasters and 11 Mosquitos of No 5 Group attacked Würzburg. 6 Lancasters lost. This was another dramatic and devastating blow by No 5 Group. 1,127 tons of bombs were dropped with great accuracy in 17 minutes. According to a post-war survey, the old cathedral city with its famous historic buildings suffered 89 per cent of its built-up area destroyed. Würzburg contained little industry and this was an area attack.

56 Mosquitos to Berlin, 24 to Hanau and 6 each to Brunswick and Osnabrück, 32 RCM sorties, 40 Mosquito patrols, 12 Halifaxes and 12 Lancasters minelaying in the Kattegat and off Heligoland. No aircraft lost.

Total effort for the night: 717 sorties, 30 aircraft (4.2 per cent) lost.

Just googled mine (29 Feb 56) and it’s a bit boring really

Islamic Republic forms in Pakistan
Pres Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term
Elpidio Quirino, president of Philippines (1949-53), dies at 65

Aviation wise a Cessna 195 crashed in Columbia.

Mind you, being as I only get a birthday every four years I’m only 14, I learned to drive when I was 4 and started flying when I was 7…..:D

I was told that I was born on the day Hitler finally gave up on the idea of invading; so it means I was good for something, even if it was just as a deterrent.

The Day the Music Died song written to commemorate ……. Buddy Holly and co who were killed on the date of my birth in a plane crash.

Bloody hell I type in my date of birth and aviation and its nowt but deaths……..