1968 in aviation Information & 1968 in aviation Links at HealthHaven.com

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Years:	1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1968:

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January

January 21 - a US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashes in the sea near Thule Air Base Greenland, carrying four nuclear weapons. See Broken Arrow, a type of nuclear weapons incidences.

March

April

April 4 - Apollo Program: Apollo-Saturn mission 502 (Apollo 6) is launched, as the second and last unmanned test-flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle.
April 25 - Apollo 6's SIV-B staqe re-entered the atmosphere and Command Module recovered.

May

May 5 - a Grumman Gulfstream II becomes the first executive jet to cross the Atlantic

August

August 13 - Swedish Count Gustav von Rosen defies Nigerian air defences to fly in supplies to the Biafran rebels
August 14 - Los Angeles Airways Flight 417 crashed Compton, California resulting in the loss of 21 lives. The accident aircraft, N300Y, serial number 61031, was the prototype of the Sikorsky S-61L.
August 31 - the Rolls-Royce RB.211 is successfully ground-tested

September

September 11 - Air New Zealand flies T. H. Williams, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's navigator to Sydney to commemorate the 40th anniversary of their first trans-Tasman flight
September 30 - the first Boeing 747 is rolled out

December