Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/May in aviation/May 6
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- 1941 - Igor Sikorsky sets a world endurance record for helicopter flight of 1 hour 32 minutes, in a Sikorsky VS-300
- 1937 - German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed whilst attempting to dock with its mooring mast at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
- 1896 - Samuel Pierpont Langley flies the unmanned Aerodrome No. 5 from a houseboat on the Potomac river a distance of 3,300ft.
