Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/September in aviation/September 4
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- 1950 - Cpt Robert Wayne becomes the first pilot to be rescued from behind enemy lines by a helicopter
- 1939 - first British bombs of the war dropped on German targets, with a Bristol Blenheim attacking the German fleet.
- 1936- 4-5 - Beryl Markham makes the first east-to-west solo crossing of the Atlantic by a woman in a Percival Vega Gull, from Abingdon, Berkshire to Cape Breton Island
- 1922 - Lt Jimmy Doolittle flies across the United States in under a day in a de Havilland DH.4. He takes 21 hours 19 minutes to fly from Pablo Beach, Florida to Rockwell Field, California.
