1941 In Aviation

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This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1941 :

EVENTS

Jackie Cochran became the first woman to fly a bomber across the Atlantic Ocean .

February

February 8 - a fleet of Junkers Ju 52 s is used to airlift German troops to North Africa.

February 10 - Britain uses Paratroops for the first time in an attack on Tragino

February 26 - Philippine Airlines was founded on February 26, 1941, making it Asia's oldest and first carrier, still to this day, operating under its current name.

March

March 1 - New Zealand 's first fighter squadron, No. 485 Squadron RNZAF is formed.

March 11 - the Congress Of The United States passes the Lend-Lease bill, paving the way for the provision of (amongst other equipment) 16,000 warplanes to the UK. Later Lend-Lease arrangements will supply other Allied nations.

April

April 15 - CAMCO signs an agreement with the Chinese government to equip and administer the American Volunteer Group in China.

April 16 - London comes under intense bomber attack, with nearly 900 tonnes of high explosive dropped on the city.

May

May 6 - Igor Sikorsky sets a world endurance record for helicopter flight of 1 hour 32 minutes, in a Sikorsky VS-300

May 10 - Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try and negotiate an alliance with Britain against the Soviet Union

May 20 - the Luftwaffe 's largest paratroop assault sees 22,750 troops landed in Crete in Operation Merkur . The heavy losses taken mean this will also be the Luftwaffe's last such operation for the war.

May 26 - Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm aircraft play a key role in finding and sinking the German Battleship ''Bismarck'' .

May 29 - the USAAC forms Ferrying Command to fly newly manufactured aircraft across the Atlantic to Britain.

June

June 8 - July 8 - the British invade Syria - air combat between British and Vichy-French aircraft ensues

June 20 - the USAAC is renamed the USAAF and placed under the command of General Henry Arnold

June 22 - Germany invades the Soviet Union ( Operation Barbarossa ). 1,200 Soviet aircraft are destroyed on the first day alone.

July

July 18 - the first RAF aircraft equipped with Radar

July 28 - the Vichy Government agrees to build German aircraft in France

July 31 - a chartered DC-4 ferried 40 American servicemen to Oakland,California from Nielson Airport in Makati City (Manila) with stops in Guam, Wake Island, Johnston Atoll and Honolulu, Hawaii, making Asia's First airline, Philippine Airlines , the first Asian airline to cross the Pacific Ocean. December that year a sheduled service commenced.

August

August 1 - the Soviet Union makes the first operational use of Parasite Fighter s, attacking Constanţa with modified Polikarpov I-16 s carried into action by Tupolev TB-3 s.

August 1 - the United States embargoes the sale of aviation fuel to Japan .

September

September 23 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel single-handedly sinks a Soviet battleship (the ''Marat'' ) flying a Junkers Ju 87

October

October 2 - Heini Dittmar sets a new airspeed record of 1,004 km/h (624 mph) in a Messerschmitt Me 163 A. The record is unofficial because the flight (and the Me 163 programme) is kept secret.

November

November 12 - aircraft carrier HMS ''Ark Royal'' is sunk by a German submarine

December

December 7/8 - the Imperial Japanese Navy makes a devastatingly successful surprise attack on the U.S. Navy fleet at Pearl Harbor . Six Aircraft Carrier s launched a total of nearly 400 warplanes which claimed five American battleships and ten other vessels, and damaged three other battleships. The following day, the U.S, declares war on Japan.

December 18 - Lt Buzz Wagner becomes the first US ace of the war.

December 20 - American Volunteer Group " Flying Tigers " in first combat near Kunming, China

December 22 - a radar-equipped Fairey Firefly sinks a German submarine ( U-451 ) at night, the first such victory

FIRST FLIGHTS

January

Junkers Ju 288

January 9 - Avro Lancaster prototype ''BT308'' (at the time, an Avro Manchester Mk III)

February

February 25 - Messerschmitt Me 321

April

April 2 - Heinkel He 280

May

Nakajima J1N

May 15 - Gloster E.28/39 , first British jet

August

August 1 - Grumman TBF Avenger

December

December 22 - Fairey Firefly prototype ''Z1826''

ENTERED SERVICE

February

P-39 Airacobra with 31st Pursuit Group (39th, 40th, and 41st Pursuit Squadrons, USAAC)

November

De Havilland Mosquito with No. 105 Squadron RAF

December

Avro Lancaster with No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron RAF

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