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May 1, 1960… A Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, piloted by U.S. Air Force Col. Francis Gary Powers, is shot down over the Soviet Union by a surface-to-air missile (SAM)

May 7, 1937… The first successful pressurized airplane cabin is achieved in the Lockheed XC-35.

May 9, 1936… The German airship Hindenburg lands at Lakehurst, New Jersey after its first scheduled transatlantic flight..

May 14, 1908… The first passenger flies in an airplane. Wilbur Wright takes Charles W. Furnas of Dayton, Ohio on a 28 3/5 seconds flight that covers 600 meters at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.

May 20, 1932… The first solo flight by a woman pilot across the Atlantic is made by American Amelia Earhart. She flies from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland to Londonderry, Northern Ireland in a Lockheed Vega monoplane in 13 hours, 30 minutes. 

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