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July 8

• 2006 - Aerospace scientists in Toronto conduct the first confirmed flight of a manned ornithopter operating under its own power.

• 1991 - a US Navy F/A-18 Hornet is forced to shoot down an E-2 Hawkeye after its crew abandons it following an engine fire

• 1983 - General Dynamics rolls out the 1,000th F-16 Fighting Falcon

• 1953 - Sabena begins the first international helicopter service, linking Belgium, the Netherlands and France

• 1952 - New York Airways begins inter-airport helicopter services to link Idlewild, La Guardia, and Newark airports.

• 1908 - Thérèse Peltier becomes the first woman to fly in an aeroplane. She is a passenger on a flight made by Lèon Delagrange at Turin.