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I am glad that today in our going back page we start with our ladies. As it is said “Ladies first” and there we go back to 27 1913 (USA) — Katherine Stinson became the first woman in the United States to make an official airmail flight. (AYY)

1922 (USA): For avionics enthusiasts like me(an aspiring Avionics Engineer), I take this day to bestow great honor to Dr. Albert Taylor and Leo Young, who were scientists at the US Naval Aircraft Radio Laboratory. They made the first successful detections of objects by “radio observation.” They used wireless waves to detect objects not visible due to weather or darkness. This was the groundbreaking event that brought us into the advent of radar. (AYY)

Let us flip a few pages in our history books and head to 1956 (USA), this same day. It was on this day that the first piloted airplane went past Mach 3 and guess what….It was the rocket-powered Bell X-2.(OTM)

The Bell X-2 was a rocket-powered, swept-wing research plane specially manufactured to investigate the structural effects of aerodynamic heating as well as stability and control effectiveness at high speeds and altitudes. The program was developed jointly in 1945 by Bell Aircraft Corporation, the U.S. Air Force and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to explore aerodynamic problems of supersonic flight and take it a step further than what had been achieved by the X-1 series planes.