Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/June in aviation/June 12
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- 1979 - Bryan Allen flies the Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel using pedal power.
- 1944, England suffers first V1 flying bomb attacks.
- 1928 - Emilio Carranza crashes in the New Jersey Pine Barrens while returning from New York City to Mexico City on a historic goodwill flight.
- 1919 - Raymonde de Laroche breaks the women's altitude record, flying to a height of 5,150 m (16,896 ft).
- 1897 - Friedrich Hermann Wölfert and his mechanic are killed in an accident when their airship powered by petrol caught fire at a demonstration at the Tempelhof field.
