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8 June 1905 (France) — Gabriel Voisin succeeds in lifting off from the river Seine in his box-kite glider when towed by a motorboat.
8 June 1920 (USA) — Lieutenant John Wilson makes a world record parachute jump from 19,861 feet in San Antonio, Texas.
8 June 1921 (USA) — The first flight of a United States Army Air Service pressurized cabin airplane is made with a D-9-A aircraft. This allows flying beyond the “comfortable” breathing altitude of about 8,000 feet.
8 June 1931 (USA) — Pennsylvania Airlines, Inc., extends airmail service from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Washington, D. C.
8 June 1938 (France) — Flying a Amiot 370, powered by two Hispano-Suiza 860-hp engines, Commander M. Rossi (pilot) and A. Vigroux (mechanic) set three world speed records for 5,000 kms — without payload and with 500 and 1,000 kgs — of 249.051 mph over Istres-Cazaux-Istres course.
8 June 1938 (Germany) — Flying a Junkers Ju.90 (D-ALAT), Karlheinz Kindermann and Ing. Hotopf, set a world altitude record with payload of 10,000 kgs. of 23,759.795 feet at Dessau, Germany.
8 June 1995 (Bosnia) — Capt. Scott O’Grady, USAF General Dynamics F-16 “Fighting Falcon” pilot rescued in Bosnia, after six days in hostile territory.
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