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February 6

• 1982 - Freddie Laker's Laker Airways flies for the last time.

• 1946 - TWA makes its first international flight, from New York to Paris

• 1933 - 6-8 - Gayford and Nicholetts make the first non-stop flight from England to South Africa in a Fairey Long-Range Monoplane. The 5,309 mile (8,544 km) flight is a new distance record. They take 57 hours 25 minutes.

• 1933 - 6-9 - Jim Mollison flies a de Havilland Puss Moth from the United Kingdom to Brazil, via Senegal, across South Atlantic. He becomes the first person to fly solo across the North and South Atlantics.