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August 25

• 1947 - the Douglas Skystreak is flown to an airspeed record of 650 mph (1,047 km/h).

• 1940 - 25-26 - Britain makes its first air raid on Berlin of the war.

• 1932 - Amelia Earhart makes the first transcontinental flight across the US by a woman. She flies a Lockheed Vega.

• 1914 - The first German aircraft of the war is forced down.