1947 in aviation - First flights

June June 22 - Martin XB-48 July July 2 - Mikoyan-Gurevich I-310, prototype of the MiG-15 July 8 - Boeing 377 July 16 - Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 July 21 - Aero 45 July 24 - Ilyushin Il-22 July 27 - Tupolev Tu-12, first Soviet jet bomber July 27 - Bristol Sycamore, first British helicopter October October 1 - North American XP-86 November November 2 - Hughes H-4 "Spruce Goose" December< ...

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1947 in aviation, 1947 in aviation - Events, 1947 in aviation - First flights, 1947 in aviation - Entered service

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This article is about the mid-20th century North American airline, not to be confused with the late 20th-century Capitol Air Lines. A different "Capital Airlines," formerly Brown Air International, operated in the United Kingdom 1983–1990. It is also the name of a charter and air ambulance service in Kenya. Capital Airlines was an airline serving the eastern United States which was merged into United Airlines in 1961. Its primary hubs were National Airport near Washington, DC and Allegheny County Airport near Pittsburg ...

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• Capital Airlines - History
• Capital Airlines - Predecessors
• Capital Airlines - Pennsylvania Central Airlines
• Capital Airlines - Capital's last decade

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While all the issues described so far are related to zones of influence at sea or in the air, there have also been a number of disputes related to the territories of the Greek islands themselves. These have related to the demilitarized status of some of the main islands in the area; to Turkish concerns over alleged endeavours by Greece to artificially expanding settlements to previously uninhabited islets; and to the existence of alleged "grey zones", an undetermined number of small islands of undetermined sovereignty.

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Aegean dispute, Aegean dispute - Maritime and areal zones of influence, Aegean dispute - The territorial waters, Aegean dispute - The national airspace, Aegean dispute - The continental shelf, Aegean dispute - The Flight Information Regions, Aegean dispute - The islands, Aegean dispute - Demilitarized status, Aegean dispute - Greek settlement programmes, Aegean dispute - Grey zones, Aegean dispute - Strategies of conflict resolution

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March March 14 - Saudi Arabian Airlines begins regular services. May May 28 - BSAA trials non-stop flights from London to Bermuda using aerial refueling over the Azores June June 17 - Pan Am begins a New York to San Francisco service flying west-to-east around almost the entire globe. June 19 - Col Albert Boyd sets a new official world airspeed record of 623.62 mph (1,003 km/h) in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. (This is still marginally slower than unofficial German speed records in rocket-po ...

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1947 in aviation, 1947 in aviation - Events, 1947 in aviation - First flights, 1947 in aviation - Entered service

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