| This day in: 1971, 1977, 1978, 1981 & 1982 | 14 Jul 2010 |
14 July 1971 The VFW-Fokker VFW 614 short-haul transport prototype (D-BABA) made its first flight at Bremen, West Germany. 14 July 1977 Lufthansa placed the largest order in its history, for 5 Boeing 747's and 6 Boeing 727's. 14 July 1978 Having received an order from United Air Lines for 30 examples of its proposed Model 767-200 wide-body medium-range transport, Boeing announced that the type would enter full-scale development and production. 14 July 1981 The first flight in a short evaluation programme was made by a Grumman F-14 Tomcat powered by two General Electric F101-DFE advanced augmented turbofan engines. 14 July 1982 The first flight took place of the Chinese Harbin Y-11T Turbo-Panda, a STOL general-purpose transport powered by two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A turboprop engines. The piston-engined version had first flown in 1975. |
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