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September 22

• 1994 - two RAF SEPECAT Jaguars and a USAF A-10 attack and destroy a Serbian T-55 tank

• 1980 - Iraq attacks Iran, various military bases and oil wells affected.

• 1972 - the 1,000th Boeing 727 is sold, a sales record for airliners

• 1950 - Col David Schilling makes the first crossing of the Atlantic in a jet fighter, a F-84 Thunderjet.

• 1943 - 22-24 - Ernst Jachmann flies his single-seat glider 55 hrs and 51 min in a thermal.

• 1934 - Sir Alan Cobham sets out in an Airspeed Courier in a failed attempt to fly non-stop from England to India.