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21 April 1964 – Almost 10 years after the first flight of the Lockheed YC-130 Hercules prototype, the commercial military version made it’s longest flight. The aircraft took off from Marietta, GA and flew 25 hours, 1 minute. The specs for the military transport plane were that it would have a capacity of 92 passengers, […]

From This Day in Aviation History by Brian R. Swopes, thisdayinaviationhistory.com 20 April 1962: “Neil’s Cross-Country.” NASA Research Test Pilot Neil Alden Armstrong conducts a flight to test the Minneapolis-Honeywell MH-96 flight control system installed in the third North American Aviation X-15, serial number 56-6672. The new system combined both aerodynamic and reaction thruster flight

Albert Scott Crossfield, Jr., was born at Berkeley, California, 2 October 1921. At the age of 5, he contracted pneumonia and fell into a coma. He was not expected to survive. His condition improved and he was confined to bed for many months. Effects of the illness lasted throughout his childhood. It was during his