1948 In Aviation

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This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1948 :

EVENTS

January

January 17 - BOAC begins to replace Flying Boat routes with the Lockheed Constellation

January 30 - British South American Airways Avro Tudor IV '' Star Tiger '' (G-AHNP) en-route from the Azores to Bermuda disappeared without trace. At last contact the plane was estimated to be just under 2 hours away from landing.

January 30 - Orville Wright , co-inventor of the world's first practical Fixed-wing Aircraft , dies in Dayton, Ohio at the age of 76.

March

the Israeli Air Force is formed, with the new state of Israel

March 10 - VF-5 becomes the first US Navy carrier squadron to be equipped with Jets .

March 19 - The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) extends its Hong Kong service to Japan

March 23 - Group Captain John Cunningham sets a new world altitude record of 59,446 ft (18,119 m) in a De Havilland Vampire .

March 28 - United States Air Force B-29 Superfortress es undergo Aerial Refueling tests, demonstrating the viability of this technique to extend the range of strategic bombers.

April

two specially modified Gloster Meteor s begin carrier trials aboard HMS ''Implacable'' .

April 3 - Alitalia recommences services to the UK

April 25 - a North American YP-86 becomes the first jet-powered aircraft to exceed Mach 1.

April 28 - 29 , Leonardo Bonzi and Maner Lualdi set a light plane distance record of 4,170 km (2,591 miles) flying from Campoformido, Italy to Massawa, Eritrea in an Ambrosini S.1001

May

May 15 - Tel Aviv is attacked by the Egyptian Air Force . The Israeli Air Force retaliates by striking Arab troops near Samakh .

June

June 1 - BEA commences the first helicopter airmail service in the UK

June 8 - Air India commences a regular Bombay - London service by Lockheed Constellation.

July 17 - Catalina seaplane " Miss Macao " (VR-HDT), operated by a Cathay Pacific subsidiary, with 23 passengers and 3 crew on board flying from Macau to Hong Kong was hijacked mid-way over the Pearl River Delta by a group of 4 hijackers attempting to rob the passengers on board. The pilot was attacked and the aircraft lost control during the ensuing struggle in the cockpit. The subsequent crash killed all on board except one passenger, who was later identified to be the lead hijacker. This is the first known case of airliner hijack.

June 17 - United Airlines Flight 624 DC-6 (NC37506) crashed near Mount Carmel , Pennsylvania .

June 26 - the Berlin Airlift begins, with USAF , Royal Air Force , and British civil transport aircraft carrying supplies into West Berlin

June 28 - Sdn Ldr Basil Arkel sets a new helicopter speed record of 124 mph (200 km/h) in a Fairey Gyrodyne .

July

July 6 - the US Navy's first two carrier-based AEW squadrons are formed, VAW-1 and VAW-2 .

July 14 - Vampire F3s of No. 54 Squadron RAF became the first Jet Aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean . The six aircraft, commanded by Wg Cdr D S Wilson-MacDonald, DSO, DFC, go via Stornoway , Iceland and Labrador to Montreal on the first leg of a goodwill tour of Canada and the US where they gave several formation aerobatic displays.

July 14 - Silver City Airways makes the first car-carrying flight between England and France.

September

September 5 - a US Navy Martin JRM Mars sets a new cargo record of 62,262 lb (28,242 kg)

September 6 - a De Havilland DH.108 breaks the sound barrier, the first British aircraft to do so.

October

October 2 , Bukken Bruse Disaster . Flying boat crashes upon landing in Trondheim . Bertrand Russell is among the survivors.

October 20 – KLM Constellation Air Disaster (Prestwick, Scotland)

FIRST FLIGHTS

January

January 8 - Lavochkin La-174, prototype of the La-15

February

February 22 - LWD Junak

March

March 5 - XF-87 Blackhawk

March 9 - Gloster E.1/44

March 22 - Lockheed T-33

May

May 7 - Tupolev Tu-78

June

June 23 - Arsenal VG 70

July

July 3 - Douglas XAJ-1

July 8 - Ilyushin Il-28

July 16 - Vickers Viscount

August

August 16 - Northrop XF-89

August 23 - XF-85 Goblin

September

September 1 - Saab J-29 R, Sweden's first jet

September 18 - Convair XF-92

September 29 - F7U Cutlass

October

October 26 - Gloster Meteor T7

December

December 16 - X-4 Bantam

December 29 - Supermarine Type 510

ENTERED SERVICE

March

March 10 - FJ Fury with VF-1 aboard USS ''Boxer''

May

May 5 - FH Phantom with VF-17 aboard USS ''Saipan''

June

June 1 - Convair 240 with American Airlines

June 2 - B-36 Peacemaker with United States Air Force (7th Bomb Wing (Heavy))

November

B-45 Tornado with the 47th Bombardment Wing

BIRTHS

August 8 - Svetlana Savitskaya , cosmonaut

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