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This Day in Aviation History

January 27th

 

  • 27 January 2002 (USA) — Boeing's 737, the world's most widely use twin jet, becomes the first jetliner in history to amass more than 100 million flying hours. The 737 was launched onto the market in 1965.

  • 27 January 1967 (USA) — Astronauts Grissom, Chafee and White are killed in Apollo 1 fire.

  • 27 January 1942 (Pacific Ocean) — First Japanese warship sunk by a U.S. submarine.

  • 27 January 1894 (England) — Captain B. F. S. Baden-Powel (the brother of the first Chief Boy Scout) makes a kite ascent from Pirbright Army Camp, England in what appears to be the first use of man-carrying kites outside China.

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