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The first aircraft autopilots were developed more than a century ago by an American named Lawrence Sperry; he demonstrated the device in France during 1914. It took a further twenty three years, however, before technology had advanced sufficiently to achieve the first automated landing. Following a series of experiments with automatic landing systems the U.S. Army Air Corps achieved this feat on August 23rd, 1937 with a short flight between Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio and nearby Patterson Field. This was a low-budget affair and succeeded only because of the persistence of the few pioneers inv...

On July 7, 1965: The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation delivered the 1,000th production F-4 Phantom II

On June 26, 1942, the Grumman XF6F-1, Bureau of Aeronautics serial number (Bu. No.) 02981, prototype for the Navy and Marine Corps F6F Hellcat fighter, with Grumman’s Chief Engineer and Test Pilot Robert Leicester Hall flying, made a 25-minute first flight at the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation plant, Bethpage, Long Island, New York.

On January 27, 1939, First Lieutenant Benjamin Scovill Kelsey, Air Corps, United States Army, made the first flight of the prototype Lockheed XP-38 Lightning, serial number 37-457, at March Field, Riverside County, California.

On January 9, 1941 test pilot Captain Harry Albert (“Sam”) Brown, O.B.E., (1896–1953) made the first flight of the Avro Lancaster prototype, BT308, at RAF Ringway, Cheshire, England, south of Manchester.