1947 In Aviation

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This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1947:

EVENTS

January

January 26 , A KLM Douglas Dakota crashed after takeoff from Copenhagen , killing all 22 onboard, including Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden .

March

March 14 - Saudi Arabian Airlines begins regular services.

April

April 4 - International Civil Aviation Organisation was formed.

May

May 28 - BSAA trials non-stop flights from London to Bermuda using Aerial Refueling over the Azores

June

June 17 - Pan Am begins a New York to San Francisco service flying west-to-east around almost the entire globe.

June 19 - Col Albert Boyd sets a new official world airspeed record of 623.62 mph (1,003 km/h) in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star . (This is still marginally slower than unofficial German speed records in rocket-powered aircraft during World War II).

July

July 3 - The Philippine Air Force was formed.

July 15 - Northwest Airlines flies the first commercial passenger flight from the U.S. to Japan , using ''The Manila'', a Douglas DC-4 aircraft, by way of Anchorage . From Tokyo, the flight continued to Seoul , Shanghai , and Manila .

August

, La-150 , La-156 , La-160 , Su-9 , Su-11 .

August 10 - BEA began the world's first regular cargo-only airline service.

August 14 - The Royal Pakistan Air Force formed.

August 20 - a new world airspeed record of 640 mph (1,031 km/h) is set in the Douglas Skystreak .

August 25 - the Douglas Skystreak is flown to another airspeed record of 650 mph (1,047 km/h).

September

September 18 - the United States Air Force becomes its own fully independent military command.

October

October 1 - Los Angeles Airways begins the first scheduled carriage of airmail by Helicopter

October 1 - George Welch allegedly breaks the sound barrier during a dive in his XP-86 Sabre .

October 14 - Chuck Yeager took the rocket-powered Bell X-1 past the Speed Of Sound , the first controlled, supersonic, level flight.

October 24 - United Airlines Flight 608 DC-6 (NC37510) en route to Chicago from Los Angeles caught fire and then crashed while attempting an emergency landing at the Bryce Canyon , Utah airport.

FIRST FLIGHTS

January

January 8 - Yakovlev Yak-19

January 11 - McDonnell XF2D-1 Banshee , later redesignated XF2H-1

March

Lavochkin La-156

May

May 28 - Sukhoi Su-11 (1947) , first aircraft with Soviet-designed jet engines

May 28 - Douglas Skystreak

June

Yakovlev Yak-15U, a prototype of Yak-17

Lavochkin La-160 , first Soviet swept-wing fighter

June 22 - Martin XB-48

June 25 - Boeing B-50

June 30 - Avions Fairey Junior - ''OO-TIT''

June 30 - Vickers Valetta ''VL249''

July

July 8 - Boeing 377

July 8 - Yakovlev Yak-23

July 16 - Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 ''TG263''

July 21 - Aero 45

July 24 - Ilyushin Il-22

July 27 - Tupolev Tu-12 , first Soviet jet bomber

July 27 - Bristol Sycamore , first British helicopter

September

September 2 - Hawker P.1040 ''VP401''

October

October 1 - North American XP-86

November

November 2 - Hughes H-4 " Spruce Goose "

November 2 - Yakovlev Yak-25 (1947)

December

C-119 Flying Boxcar

December 17 - Boeing XB-47

December 30 - Mikoyan-Gurevich I-310, prototype of the MiG-15

ENTERED SERVICE

April

Douglas DC-6 with American Airlines

August

McDonnell FH Phantom with United States Navy squadron VF-171

October

October 31 - Avro Tudor 4 with British South American Airways

November

McDonnell FH Phantom with United States Marine Corps squadron VMF-122 , first deployment of a jet by a US Marine combat unit

Republic F-84B Thunderjet with the United States Air Force 14th Fighter Group.

Oct. 26-Nov.7 - Rhulin A. Thomas made the first solo coast-to-coast flight by a deaf pilot.

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