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Everything about 1969 In Aviation totally explainedThis is a list of aviation-related events from 1969:
Events
May
May 4-11 - the Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race commemorates the 50th anniversary of Alcock and Brown's crossing. It is won by a Royal Navy F-4 Phantom, taking 4 hours 47 minutes.
May 26 - the US Army cancels the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne program, worth $US 900 million.
June
June 5 - US bombing of North Vietnam recommences, after a seven month ceasefire.
July
No. 1 Squadron RAF became the first operational fixed wing VTOL squadron in the world
July 20 - Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon.
August
August 16 - Darryl Greenamyer sets a new piston-engine airspeed record in a heavily modified F8F Bearcat named Conquest I. His record speed of 478 mph (769 km/h) topples a record that had stood for 30 years.
August 31 - World champion boxer Rocky Marciano dies when the plane in which he was a passenger crashes.
October
October 20 - Finnair introduces an inertial navigation system on its aircraft, becoming the first airline to dispense with the need for a navigator aboard.
December
December 18 - the England-Australia Commemorative Air Race is flown in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Smith brothers' flight. It is won by W. J. Bright and F. L. Buxton in a Britten-Norman Islander
First flights
February
February 9 - Boeing 747
February 12 - Mil Mi V-12
March
Aero Boero AB-115
March 2 - BAC-Aérospatiale Concorde
April
April 24 - Anderson Kingfisher
June
June 27 - Interceptor 400
August
August 30 - Tupolev Tu-22M
September
September 15 - Cessna FanJet500, the prototype which led to the Cessna Citation.
Entered service
October
October 2 - Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod
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