Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/October in aviation/October 16

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October 16

• 1992 - Flt Lt Nicky Smith, graduated from 89 Course at Shawbury to become the RAF's first female helicopter pilot

• 1955 - the Boeing 367-80 (707 prototype) crosses the United States in just 3 hours 58 minutes.

• 1939 - the Luftwaffe attacks its first British targets - Royal Navy warships in the Firth of Forth.

• 1912 - First Air-dropped bomb was designed during the Balkan War and used by the Bulgarian air force pilots Radul Milkov and Prodan Toprakchiev at the Turkish railway station of Karaagac (near Edirne). This was the first use of airplane (Albatros F.II) as bomber.

• 1908 - Samuel Cody makes the first generally recognised aeroplane flight in the UK in his British Army Aeroplane No. 1.