May 31, 1945
1945: The last of 18,188 B-24 Liberators and Liberator variants are delivered to the USAAF. This “workhorse” was produced in larger numbers than any other ...
May 28, 1980
1980: The United States Air Force Academy graduates its first female cadets. Ninety-seven women are commissioned as Second Lieutenants.
May 27, 1958
1958: Gen Otto P. Weyland accepts TAC’s first production F-105B Thunderchief from Republic at its Farmingdale plant in Long Island. (Third production model shown in ...
May 26, 1973
1973: SKYLAB 2 launches from Kennedy Space Center on a Saturn IB with Astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr., Paul Weitz, and Dr. Joseph Kerwin aboard. On ...
May 25, 1985
1985: A MAC C-141 flies the body of the Unknown Soldier of the Vietnam War from Travis AFB to Andrews AFB prior to its interment ...
May 24, 1972
1972: President Nixon and USSR Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin in Moscow sign an Agreement Concerning Cooperation in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space for ...
May 21, 1956
956: Operation REDWING (Cherokee test). Over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, Maj David Crichlow flies the B-52 “Barbara Grace” to nearly 50,000 feet and drops ...
May 20, 1927
1927: Charles A. Lindbergh, a Captain in the Missouri National Guard’s 110th Observation Squadron, lands his Ryan Monoplane, the “Spirit of St. Louis,” in Paris ...
May 19, 1967
1967: Douglas Aircraft Company receives a contract to design and build the Manned Orbiting Laboratory.
May 18, 1980
1980: After Mount St. Helens erupts, a C-141 from the 63 MAW, at Norton AFB, CA and a C-130 from the 62 MAW at McChord ...