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June 8

• 1989 - a Soviet Air Force Mikoyan MiG-29 suffers a bird strike during a display at the Paris Air Show. Pilot Anatoli Kvochur manages to prevent the plane from injuring anyone, and saves himself by ejecting at only 400 feet.

• 1966 - one of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane

• 1959 - The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.

• 1948 - Air India commences a regular Bombay-London service by Lockheed Constellation.

• 1941 - June 8-July 8 - the British invades Syria - air combat between British and French aircraft

• 1921 - the US Army carries out the first experiments in cabin pressurization, using a de Havilland DH.4.

• 1908 - Alliot Vernon Roe flies his first aircraft at Brooklands, Surrey.