1960 In Aviation

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	Yp2	1958
	Yp3	1959
	Year	1960
	Ya1	1961
	Ya2	1962
	Ya3	1963
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	D	1960s
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	Dn3	1990s

This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1960 :

EVENTS

January

January 1 - Fiji Airways is reconstituted, becoming equally owned by BOAC , Qantas , and Tasman Empire Airways .

February

February 9 - the US Air Force opens its National Space Surveillance Control Centre at Bedford, Massachusetts .

February 13 - France detonates its first Nuclear Weapon

April

April 6 - the Short SC.1 makes its first transition from vertical to horizontal flight and back.

April 10 - BOAC re-opens its air routes to Cairo . They had been suspended at the time of the Suez Crisis .

April 13 - the United Kingdom terminates Ballistic Missile research, preferring to simply purchase the US-developed Skybolt missile.

May

May 1 - CIA pilot Gary Powers is captured by the Soviet Union when his Lockheed U-2 is shot down near Sverdlovsk

May 12 - a USAF C-130 Hercules drops a record 35,000 lb (15,876 kg) by parachute.

June

June 1 - Trans-Canada Air Lines begins transatlantic services, flying between Montreal and London

July

July 1 - British United Airways is formed

July 1 - PVO Strany MiG-19 shoots down an RB-47H Stratojet (s/n 53-4281) in international airspace with 4 of the crew killed and 2 captured by the Soviets

July 9 - Sabena begins airlifting Belgian nationals out of Congo . Over the next three weeks, 25,711 will fly home

August

August 16 - Captain (later Colonel) Joseph Kittinger (USAF) sets a world record for highest Parachute jump (102,200 ft or 31,150m) and longest parachute freefall (84,700 ft or 25,815 m) while testing high altitude parachute escape systems in Project Excelsior .

August 18 - a C-119 Flying Boxcar recovers a data capsule from the Discoverer 14 satellite in mid-air.

September

September 10 - NORAD carries out Operation Sky Shield , testing US and Canadian radar systems.

September 15 - Tasman Empire Airways retires its last Flying Boat from service.

September 17 - East African Airways commences jet services between London and Nairobi

October

October 27 - Air Mali is established

October 31 - BEA retires its last piston-engined airliners.

FIRST FLIGHTS

January

January 10 - Auster D.5

January 14 - Piper Cherokee

February

February 5 - PZL TS-11 Iskra

February 12 - Auster D.4 ''G-25-8''

February 29 - Beechcraft Baron

April

April 19 - Grumman A2F-1, A-6 Intruder prototype

May

May 9 - Auster D.6 ''G-25-10''

June

June 24 - Avro 748

October

Dassault Mirage IIIC (production model)

October 21 - Hawker P.1127 (tethered flight)

October 25 - Boeing Vertol Model 107 , predecessor to the CH-46 Sea Knight.

November

November 16 - Canadair CL-44

December

Agusta A.104 ''I-AGUM''

December 6 - Sikorsky S-61

ENTERED SERVICE

June

June 29 - English Electric Lightning with No. 74 Squadron RAF at RAF Coltishall

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