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September 15

• 1987 - a Eurocopter Panther sets new time-to-altitude records for helicopters in its class

• 1960 - Tasman Empire Airways retires its last flying boat from service.

• 1950 - Task Force 7, centred on five US Navy carriers and one of the Royal Navy, supports the USMC assault on Green Beach, paving the way for the Inchon Landing

• 1943 - 15-16 - first use of the "Tall Boy" 12,000 lb (5,455 kg) bomb by RAF Lancasters.

• 1940 - Germany makes its heaviest daylight raid on London

• 1916 - French submarine Foucault is sunk by two Austrian flying boats, becoming the first submarine to be sunk by an aircraft.

• 1911 - Édouard de Nié Port, one of the pre-eminent aeroplane designers and racing pilots of the era, and co-founder with his brother Charles of the French aircraft manufacturer Nieuport, is killed in a flying accident.