Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/August in aviation/August 8
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- 1934 - 8-9 - James Ayling and Leonard Reid make the first non-stop flight from Canada to England, in a de Havilland DH.84, taking 30 hours 50 minutes for the flight.
- 1930 - end of the Challenge 1930 contest, won by Fritz Morzik.
- 1929 - The Graf Zeppelin (LZ 127) begins its circumnavigation of the globe at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
- 1914 - A French aerial observer is injured by small-arms fire, becoming that nation's first casualty of air war.
