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February 21 - an English Electric Canberra
becomes the first jet to make an unrefuelled crossing of the
Atlantic, taking 4 hours 37 minutes
March
March 6 - the Martin
aircraft company gains production rights to the English Electric
Canberra as the B-57
March 15 - a Qantasflying boat makes a
survey flight from Sydney
(Australia) to Valparaíso (Chile) via Easter Island
(Eastern Pacific region), a first flight of this type across the
South Pacific.
August 15 - Bill Bridgeman
sets a new altitude record in the Douglas Skyrocket of 74,494 ft
(22,706 m).
August 15 - BEA--British European Airways commences the world's
first turboprop freight
services using a modified Douglas DC-3 fitted with two Rolls-Royce
Dart engines.
September
16 September - A damaged US NavyF2H-2 Banshee attempting to land on USS
Essex (CV-9) crashes into a group of aircraft parked
on the carrier's deck, killing seven sailors.
September 21 - the US Marine Corps makes the
world's first mass combat deployment by helicopter. 228 Marines are
landed in 12 Sikorsky HRS
October
October 3 - HS-1 is commissioned, the US Navy's first ASW helicopter squadron
October 23 - Ten Boeing B-29 Superfortresss carried
out an attack mission on airfield in North Korea. Three were shot
down and four made emergency landings in South Korea, and three
badly damaged aircraft returned to Okinawa. It was the last
daylight mission flown by the B-29.
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