Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/May in aviation/May 21
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- 1956 - a B-52 Stratofortress drops the US's first air-dropped hydrogen bomb, a 3.75 MT device on Bikini Atoll
- 1949 - a Sikorsky S-52 sets a new helicopter altitude record of 21,200 ft (6,468 m).
