British European Airways is established as state-owned corporation.First flight of the Northrop YC-125 Raider - Monday 1st Aug, 1949.Japan Air Lines is formed - Wednesday 1st Aug, 1951.Hubert, Quebec and equipped with North American Sabre fighters. NORAD is formed to co-ordinate US and Canadian air defense - Thursday 1st Aug, 1957.The North American Air Defence Agreement (NORAD) came into effect.Airframe of 55-5120 cut up at Edwards, fuselage shipped to Sheppard AFB, Texas, for use as fire training aid. Nosewheel tires blow, pilot aborts take-off, tries to taxi airframe into the wind when the left main gear catches fire, airframe suffers fire damage, F-107 flight program ends. In what was intended to be a routine NACA flight but turns out to be the final flight ever of a North American F-107A, the second accident involving the type occurs when pilot Scott Crossfield cannot get 55-5120 to lift off of the dry lakebed at Edwards AFB, California due to improperly set stabilizer trim.Marine Corps loses a helicopter in Vietnam for the first time when a South Vietnamese Air Force fighter skids off a runway at Soc Trang, South Vietnam, and damages an HUS-1 Seahorse transport helicopter beyond repair. A/M CR Slemon, the last original RCAF officer, retired after serving as Deputy Commander of NORAD. Corruption, high debt and public disinterest drive the airline to bankruptcy in 2001. ALM-Antillean Airlines is founded in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles as an offshoot of KLM Royal Dutch to compete with Pan Am in the Caribbean and South America.First flight of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 - Monday 1st Aug, 1966.Army’s first Cavalry Division (Airmobile) conducts Operation Paul Revere II, a helicopter and ground assault against enemy forces in the Pleiku area of South Vietnam. Delta Air Lines absorbs Northeast Airlines - Tuesday 1st Aug, 1972.First flight of the Martin Marietta X-24B - Wednesday 1st Aug, 1973.(August 1 – October 1) After his 1973 RTW attempt was aborted by bad weather between Hokkaid? and the Aleutian Islands, Don Taylor of California successfully circumnavigates the world (Oshkosh eastbound to Oshkosh) in his Thorp T-18, the first aviator to do so with a homebuilt aircraft.Francis Gary Powers, US U-2 pilot, dies at 47.America West Airlines begins flying, from Phoenix, Arizona.Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete a merger, forming The Boeing Company.
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