1969 in aviation - Misplaced Pages

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1969:

Events

The RAF's No 1 Sqn became the first operational fixed wing VTOL squadron in the world, July.

July: Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon.
World champion boxer Rocky Marciano perishes when his plane, which he was piloting himself, crashes.

March 2 - The Concorde supersonic aircraft makes its first test flight, in Bristol, England.
Boeing 747 is unveiled. At the time the largest passenger carrying aircraft ever built and one which was to revolutionise commercial air travel.

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