1959 In Aviation

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This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1959 :

EVENTS

Unknown

The Canadian Golden Hawks aerobatic team is formed.

February

February 3 - Rock stars Ritchie Valens , Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper die when the Beechcraft Bonanza they are traveling in Crashes during a snow storm in Iowa .

February 20 - The Canadian government cancels the Avro CF-105 Arrow .

March

March 31 - BOAC commences its first scheduled around-the-world service

June

June 4 - Max Conrad flies a Piper Comanche from Casablanca to New York , setting a new lightplane distance record of 7,683 miles (12,365 km).

June 8 - The USS ''Barbero'' and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail .

June 16 - a US Navy P4M Mercator is attacked by North Korean Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 s off the North Korean coast. The Mercator's crew returned the aircraft safely to Japan.

July

July 9 - a Royal Air Force Vickers Valiant makes the first non-stop flight from England to Cape Town

July 14 - Maj V Ilyushin sets a new altitude record of 28,852 m (94,659 ft) in the Sukhoi T-431

July 29 - Qantas introduces the Boeing 707 on its Sydney - San Francisco route, the first transpacific service flown by jet.

September

September 23 - The USAF officially cancels the North American Aviation XF-108 Rapier .

October

October 31 - Colonel G. Mosolov sets a new airspeed record of 2,387 km/h (1,483 mph) in the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-66

December

December 14 - Cdr L Flint sets a new altitude record of 103,389 ft (31,513 m) in a F-104 Starfighter

December 15 - Maj J W Roberts sets a new airspeed record of 1,526 mph (2,456 km/h) in a F-106 Delta Dart

FIRST FLIGHTS

January

January 8 - Armstrong Whitworth AW.650 Argosy ''G-AOZZ''

January 20 - Vickers Vanguard ''G-AOYW''

February

February 3 - Agusta-Bell AB.102

February 28 - Aérospatiale Alouette III

March

March 12 - Aero Boero AB-95

April

April 5 - Aero L-29 Delfin

May

May 4 - Pilatus PC-6

June

June 8 - North American X-15 (unpowered)

June 17 - Dassault Mirage IV

July

July 14 - Sukhoi T-431, prototype of the Sukhoi Su-9

September

September 17 - North American X-15 (powered)

October

Agusta A.103

October 27 - Myasishchev M-50

November

November 23 - Boeing 720

December

December 13 - Aviamilano Scricciolo ''I-MAGY''

ENTERED SERVICE

March

March 26 - Breguet Alizé with the Aéronavale

April

April 20 - Ilyushin Il-18 with Aeroflot

May

F-106 Delta Dart with the 498th Fighter Interceptor Squadron USAF at Geiger Field

June

June 12 - C-130 Hercules with the 463rd Troop Carrier Wing USAF .

July

July 22 - Sud-Aviation Caravelle with Air France

July 22 - Antonov An-10 with Aeroflot

September

September 18 - Douglas DC-8 with Delta Air Lines and United Air Lines

December

GAM-77 Hound Dog cruise missile with USAF Strategic Air Command B-52s

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