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“The Century Series is a popular name for a group of US fighter aircraft representing models designated between F-100 and F-106 which went into full production. They included the first successful supersonic aircraft designs in the United States Air Force’s service, which remained in active service well into the 1970s and 1980s with the Air […]

15 July 1963 – Two North American F-100 Super Sabres of the 492d Tactical Fighter Squadron, 48th Tactical Fighter Wing, based at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, suffer a mid-air collision during routine gunnery exercise on the Holbeach Range. Both aircraft crashed into the sea five miles off King’s Lynn. Pilot 1Lt. L. C. Marshall parachuted from

14 July 1938 – On July 10, 1938, Howard Robard Hughes, Jr., along with a crew of four, departed Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York, on a flight to circle the Northern Hemisphere. His airplane was a Lockheed Super Electra Special, Model 14-N2, registered NX18973. Aboard were Harry P. McLean Connor, co-pilot and navigator; 1st