1941 in aviation
- 1941 in aviation
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yp2=1939
yp3=1940
year=1941
ya1=1942
ya2=1943
ya3=1944
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dp2=1920s
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aviation -related events from1941 :Events
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Jackie Cochran became the first woman to fly a bomber across theAtlantic Ocean .February
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February 8 - a fleet ofJunkers Ju 52 s is used to airlift German troops to North Africa.
*February 10 - Britain usesparatroops for the first time in an attack onTragino
*February 26 -Philippine Airlines was founded on February 26, 1941, making it Asia's oldest and first carrier, still to this day, operating under its current name.March
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March 1 -New Zealand 's first fighter squadron,No. 485 Squadron RNZAF is formed.
*March 11 - theCongress of the United States passes theLend-Lease bill, paving the way for the provision of (amongst other equipment) 16,000 warplanes to the UK. Later Lend-Lease arrangements will supply other Allied nations.April
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April 15 - CAMCO signs an agreement with the Chinese government to equip and administer theAmerican Volunteer Group in China.
*April 16 -London comes under intense bomber attack, with nearly 900 tonnes of high explosive dropped on the city.May
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May 6 -Igor Sikorsky sets a world endurance record for helicopter flight of 1 hour 32 minutes, in aSikorsky VS-300
*May 10 -Rudolf Hess parachutes intoScotland to try and negotiate an alliance with Britain against theSoviet Union
*May 20 - theLuftwaffe 's largest paratroop assault sees 22,750 troops landed inCrete inOperation Merkur . The heavy losses taken mean this will also be the Luftwaffe's last such operation for the war.
*May 26 -Royal Air Force andFleet Air Arm aircraft play a key role in finding and sinking the German battleship "Bismarck".
*May 29 - theUSAAC forms Ferrying Command to fly newly manufactured aircraft across the Atlantic to Britain.June
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June 8 -July 8 - the British invadeSyria - air combat between British and Vichy-French aircraft ensues
*June 20 - the USAAC is renamed the USAAF and placed under the command of GeneralHenry Arnold
*June 22 - Germany invades the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa ). 1,200 Soviet aircraft are destroyed on the first day alone.July
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July 18 - the first RAF aircraft equipped withradar
*July 28 - theVichy government agrees to build German aircraft in France
*July 31 - a chartered DC-4 ferried 40 American servicemen to Oakland,California from Nielson Airport in Makati City (Manila) with stops in Guam, Wake Island, Johnston Atoll and Honolulu, Hawaii, making Asia's First airline,Philippine Airlines , the first Asian airline to cross the Pacific Ocean. December that year a scheduled service commenced.August
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August 1 - the Soviet Union makes the first operational use ofparasite fighter s, attackingConstanţa with modifiedPolikarpov I-16 s carried into action byTupolev TB-3 s.
* August 1 - theUnited States embargoes the sale of aviation fuel toJapan .eptember
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September 23 -Hans-Ulrich Rudel single-handedly sinks a Soviet battleship (the "Marat") flying aJunkers Ju 87 October
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October 2 -Heini Dittmar sets a new airspeed record of 1,004 km/h (624 mph) in aMesserschmitt Me 163 A. The record is unofficial because the flight (and the Me 163 programme) is kept secret.November
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November 12 - aircraft carrier HMS "Ark Royal" is sunk by a German submarineDecember
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December 7/8 - theImperial Japanese Navy makes a devastatingly successful surprise attack on theU.S. Navy fleet atPearl Harbor . Sixaircraft carrier s launched a total of nearly 400 warplanes which claimed five American battleships and ten other vessels, and damaged three other battleships. The following day, the U.S, declares war on Japan.
*December 18 - LtBuzz Wagner becomes the first US ace of the war.
*December 20 -American Volunteer Group "Flying Tigers " in first combat nearKunming , China
*December 22 - a radar-equippedFairey Firefly sinks a German submarine (U-451) at night, the first such victoryFirst flights
January
*Junkers Ju 288
*January 9 -Avro Lancaster prototype "BT308" (at the time, anAvro Manchester Mk III)February
*February 25 -Messerschmitt Me 321 April
*April 2 -Heinkel He 280 May
*May 14 -Grumman XP-50
*Nakajima J1N
*May 15 -Gloster E.28/39 , first British jetAugust
*August 1 - Grumman TBF AvengerDecember
*December 22 -Fairey Firefly prototype "Z1826"Entered service
February
*P-39 Airacobra with 31st Pursuit Group (39th, 40th, and 41st Pursuit Squadrons, USAAC)November
*de Havilland Mosquito withNo. 105 Squadron RAF December
*Avro Lancaster with No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron RAF
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Фильмы
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