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. October 3rd, 1967, Test pilot "Pete" Knight gave that Ol' Mach Demon the best chase it ever had! William John "Pete" Knight set a world absolute aircraft speed record for manned aircraft when he piloted the X-15A-2 to 4,520...
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On November 3rd, 1957, Laika ( Лайка), a Soviet dog, became the first animal to orbit the Earth. Laika, a stray dog from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 to...
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Image credit: Gov.Pl On 1 November 2011 a LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16, a Boeing 767-35DER (registered SP-LPC) passenger jet departed Newark with 220 passengers and 11 crew on board for a scheduled service from Newark, United States, to Warsaw,...
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On October 30, 1963, Lt. James Flately managed to put a 121 thousand pound 4-engined C-130 Hercules on the deck of the USS Forrestal! . The Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed that...
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On October 15, 2003, at precisely 09:00 (UTC+08:00), Astronaut Yang Liwei, a 38-year-old lieutenant colonel in the People's Liberation Army sat inside the Shenzhou spacecraft perched on top of the Long March 2F launch vehicle as it ignited its engines...
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