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June 21

• 2004 - SpaceShipOne is the first non-government built spacecraft to transport a person into space and return safely to earth.

• 1987 - Air France pilot Partick Fourticq and friend Henri Pescarolo once again walk into the record books, completing an around the world flight aboard a Lockheed 18, in 88 hours and 19 minutes.

• 1972 - Jean Boulet pilots a Aérospatiale Lama to a new record altitude for helicopters, 12,441 m (40,820 ft)

• 1961 - June 21-22 - a Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan makes the first non-stop flight from England to Australia

• 1954 - three USAF B-47 Stratojets cross the Pacific Ocean in under 15 hours

• 1946 - a USAF P-80 Shooting Star carries the first airmail flown by jet