An Air France Concorde jet crashed upon takeoff in Paris on
July 25, 2000, killing 109 passengers and crew onboard as
well as four people on the ground.

The Concorde, the world’s fastest commercial jet, had enjoyed
an exemplary safety record up to that point, with no crashes
in the plane’s 31-year history.

Air France Flight 4590 left DeGaulle Airport for New York with
nine crew members and 96 German tourists who were planning
to take a cruise to Ecuador.

Concorde jets went back into service in November 2001, but a
series of minor problems prompted both Air France and British
Airways to end Concorde service permanently in October 2003.

On July 21, 2011, NASA’s space shuttle program completed
its final, and 135th, mission, when the shuttle Atlantis landed
at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

(FOX NEWS) – The newly decommissioned Marine One helicopter
found a new home with the U.S. Secret Service.

Agents will train on same copter that transported every president
for the last 50 years.

On June 26, 1948, U.S. and British pilots began delivering food
and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city was isolated by
a Soviet Union blockade.

As a result, beginning on June 24 the western section of Berlin
and its 2 million people were deprived of food, heating fuel and
other crucial supplies.

Though some in U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s administration
called for a direct military response to this aggressive Soviet
move, Truman worried such a response would trigger another
world war. Instead, he authorized a massive airlift operation.

Harry S. Truman (1884 – 1972). The 33rd
president of the United States, serving
from 1945 to 1953.          
      
      
     

On June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway—one of the most
decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan—came to
an end. In the four-day sea and air battle, the outnumbered
U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese
aircraft carriers with the loss of only one of its own, the
Yorktown, thus reversing the tide against the previously
invincible Japanese navy.