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July 18

  • 1943 - US Navy airship K-74 is shot down by a German submarine, the only airship lost to enemy fire during World War II.
  • 1942 - a Messerschmitt Me 262 prototype makes its first flight under jet power, test-piloted by Fritz Wendel. Previous flights had been driven by a propeller.
  • 1941 - the first RAF aircraft equipped with radar
  • 1803, Etienne Gaspar Robertson and Lhoest climb from Hamburg (Germany) up to 7,280 m in a balloon.
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