2004: NASA’s “Opportunity” rover lands on Mars.
1990: The Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird spy planes are retired from SAC service.
1983: The Swedish/U.S. Saab-Fairchild 340 transport, the first aircraft built by collaboration, makes its first flight.
1952: North American F-86 Sabre jet fighters shoot down 10 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s over North Korea.
1930: American Airways, the entity that would become known as American Airlines, is founded in New York, merging an amalgam of dozens of carriers under a single umbrella. The modern name is adopted four years later. The famous Douglas DC-3 becomes American Airlines Flagship aircraft in 1936.
