One Hundred Years of Flight USAF Chronology ... - The Air University
One Hundred Years of Flight USAF Chronology ... - The Air University
One Hundred Years of Flight USAF Chronology ... - The Air University
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1924<br />
<strong>The</strong> NBL–1 Barling bomber could fly neither fast enough nor high enough to be<br />
practical.<br />
1924<br />
March 4: After six hours <strong>of</strong> bombing, <strong>Air</strong> Service crews in two Martin<br />
bombers and two DH–4s broke an ice jam in the Platte River at North<br />
Bend, Nebraska.<br />
July 1: <strong>The</strong> U.S. Post Office began the first regular transcontinental airmail<br />
service with a route between New York and San Francisco, including<br />
stops at Chicago, Omaha, and Salt Lake City.<br />
September 28: Flying two Douglas World Cruisers—the Chicago and the New<br />
Orleans—Lt. Lowell H. Smith, Lt. Leslie P. Arnold, Lt. Erik H. Nelson,<br />
and Lt. John Harding <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Air</strong> Service completed the first flight<br />
around the world, which they had begun on 6 April. Two other Douglas<br />
World Cruisers—the Seattle and the Boston—crashed on the way,<br />
but the pilot and mechanic <strong>of</strong> the Boston, Lt. Leigh Wade and SSgt.<br />
Henry H. Ogden, respectively, completed the flight in a replacement<br />
aircraft, the Boston II.<br />
October 15: <strong>The</strong> German zeppelin ZR–3 completed a flight from<br />
Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, New Jersey. Renamed the Los<br />
Angeles, it was the first dirigible sent from Germany to the Navy under<br />
a reparations agreement.<br />
October 28: In a fog-dispersing experiment, <strong>Air</strong> Service airplanes dropped<br />
electrically charged sand on cloud formations 13,000 feet over Bolling<br />
Field, Washington, D.C. <strong>The</strong> clouds diminished.<br />
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