This day in: 1962, 1963, 1973, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984 & 2000

25 Jul 2010

25 July 1962 Air-to-ground public telephone services were started, on Trans World Airlines St. Louis to Chicago-East Coast route. 25 July 1963 A nuclear test ban treaty was finalised after almost 3 years of discussion: signed subsequently by most nations of the world, it brought an end to tests in the atmosphere. 25 July 1973 Flying the Mikoyan Ye-266 in the Soviet Union, Alexander Fedotov established a new world altitude record of 36 340 m (118 898 ft). 25 July 1980 The Bellanca Aircraft Corporation of Alexandria, Minnesota, which had a long association with general aviation aircraft in the US, filed for a petition of bankruptcy. 25 July 1982 The JASDF’s Blue Impulse aerobatic team demonstrated its new Mitsubishi T-2A supersonic trainers in public, at the Matsushima Air Base. It had received six T-2As to replace F-86F Sabre jets. 25 July 1983 The RAF received its first BAe VC10 K Mk 2 tanker conversion. 25 July 1984 Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya made the first EVA ‘spacewalk’ by a woman, leaving the Salyut 7/Soyuz T-10B/Soyuz T-12 complex for 3 hours 35 mins 4 sec. She was also the first woman to fly twice in space. 25 July 2000 An Air France Concorde crashed onto a hotel shortly after take-off from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 114 people, including all crew and passengers of the aircraft. It was the first crash involving Concorde. The crash was later attributed to debris from another aircraft causing an explosive tyre puncture that ruptured a fuel tank in the wing.

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