1961 In Aviation

Events

• February 3 - Operation Looking Glass commences, meaning that the US Air Force Strategic Air Command would have a permanent, airborne command post.

• March 28 - Air Afrique is formed

• April 1 - Venezuelan airline VIASA commences operations
• April 12 - Yuri Gagarin makes the first human spaceflight in Vostok 1, orbiting the Earth once, in108 minutes.

• June 1 - United Air Lines absorbs Capital Airlines to become the largest airline in the West, with a fleet of 267 aircraft.
• June 21-22 - a Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan makes the first non-stop flight from England to Australia

• July 1 - the RAF deploys combat aircraft to reinforce Kuwait, which is under threat from Iraq.

• September 12 - the Hawker P.1127 makes its first transitions from vertical to horizontal flight and back

• November 25 - the US Navy's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise is commissioned.

First flights

• Cessna 336 Skymaster

• Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy
• March 18 - Tupolev Tu-28

• June 17 - HAL Marut

• August 17 - Handley Page HP-115

• October 12 - Dassault Mirage IV
• October 21 - Breguet Atlantic

Entered service

• February 1 - Vickers Vanguard

• AJ3-1 Vigilante with US Navy VAH-3

• McDonnell F4H-1 Phantom II with US Navy VF-74

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