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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1957:
Contents
Events
January
- January 18 - Three Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses make the world's first round the world, non-stop flight by turbojet-powered aircraft. The flight is completed in 45 hours 19 minutes, with an average speed of 534 mph (859 km/h)
March
- March 4-15 - a US Navy airship sets a duration record for a non-rigid airship, traveling 9,448 miles (15,205 km) in 264 hours 12 minutes
- March 11 - a Lockheed Super Constellation of Flying Tiger Lines sets a payload record for a commercial aircraft of 41,749 lb (18,937 kg) between Newark, New Jersey and Burbank, California
April
- April 6 - Olympic Airways is created by shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, from the ashes of bankrupt hellenic state airline T.A.E. (Technical and Aeronautical Exploitations).
- April 11 - North American Aviation is issued a preliminary contract to build prototypes of the XF-108 long-range interceptor aircraft for the USAF.
May
- May 15 - a Royal Air Force Vickers Valiant drops the first British Hydrogen bomb, over Christmas Island
June
- June 2 - Cpt Joseph Kittinger sets a new balloon altitude record of 96,000 ft (29,250 m)
July
- July 19 - A USAF Northrop F-89J Scorpion launches a live MB-1 'Ding Dong' nuclear rocket
August
- August 1 - NORAD is formed to co-ordinate US and Canadian air defense
- August 19-20 - Maj David Simons sets a new balloon altitude record of 101,516 ft (30,942 m)
- August 21 - The USAF formally cancels the XF-103 Mach 3 interceptor aircraft program
- August 28 - a rocket-boosted English Electric Canberra sets a new world altitude record of 70,308 ft (21,430 m)
September
- September 30 - Austrian Airlines is formed from the merger of Air Austria and Austrian Airways
October
December
- December 12 - Maj Adrian Drew sets a new world speed record, in a modified F-101 Voodoo, of 1,207 mph (1,942 km/h)
First flights
January- January 23 – Nord 1500-02 Griffon II
- July 4 - Ilyushin Il-18
- July 9 - Aviation Traders Accountant
Entered service
February- February 1 - Bristol Britannia with BOAC
- March 8 - Grumman F11F Tiger with VA-156
- March 25 - Vought F8U Crusader with VF-32 Swordsmen
- June 28 - KC-135 Stratotanker with 93rd Air Refueling Squadron
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