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May 15

• 1957 - a Royal Air Force Vickers Valiant drops the first British Hydrogen bomb, over Christmas Island

• 1948 - Tel Aviv is attacked by the Egyptian Air Force. The Israeli Air Force retaliates by striking Arab troops near Samakh.

• 1940 - 15-16 - British bombers make their first attack on German land targets, in the Ruhr Valley

• 1930 - Ellen Church becomes the world's first flight attendant, working for Boeing Air Transport

• 1928 - Rev John Flynn founds the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia at Cloncurry, Queensland, using a de Havilland DH.50. The service takes medical services to remote parts of the Australian bush.

• 1922 - Instone Air Line commences flights between London and Brussels.

• 1918 - The first regular US airmail service commences, between New York and Washington, DC. The first flight is made by Lt Geoffrey Boyle in a Curtiss JN-4H.