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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1970:
Contents
Events
January
- January 31 - Mikhail Mil dies, aged 61
February
- February 17-18 - US Air Force B-52 Stratofortresses attack Laos.
- February 24 - HMS Ark Royal is recommissioned after a £UK 30 million refit.
- February 27 - Hawker-Siddeley begins buying back surplus Hawker Hunters from the Royal Air Force to remanufacture for new customers.
March
- March 6 - BEA opens its charter service, BEA Airtours
- March 17 - an Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-9 is hijacked. The hijacker is overpowered and the aircraft lands safely in Boston, although the co-pilot is killed in the struggle.
May
- May 18 - National Airlines ends a 108-day strike by offering ground crews a 33% pay increase.
- May 26 - the Tupolev Tu-144 exceeds Mach 2 in level flight, the first commercial aircraft to do so.
July
- July 1 - Melbourne opens its new international airport
- July 5 - An Air Canada DC-8 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 108
- July 17 - Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport commences passenger screening to help prevent hijackings; the first airport to do so.
August
- August 22 - Two Sikorsky HH-53C helicopters complete a non-stop transpacific flight of 9,000 miles (14,484 km) using in-flight refuelling.
September
- September 3 - Air France places the first orders for the Airbus A300
October
- October 19 - Hindustan Aeronautics completes its first licence-built MiG-21
November
- November 11 - the British government agrees to fund development of the Rolls-Royce RB211 turbofan, rescuing the project from Rolls-Royce's bankruptcy
- November 20 - the US Air Force and Army assault the Son Tay prison camp. No POWs are found.
- November 21 - US aircraft begin the first major bombing campaign of North Vietnam since 1968. 300 aircraft attack the Mu Gia and Ban Gari passes.
December
- December 15 - Artem Mikoyan dies, aged 65
- December 20 - with pre-tax losses of $US 130 million, the year ends as the worst ever for US airlines.
- December 31 - Jeanne Holm becomes the USAF's first female General.
First flights
January
- January 17 Sukhoi T-6-2IG (prototype of Sukhoi Su-24 'Fencer')
- February 19 - Canadair CL-84 CX8401
- May 28 - Boeing Vertol Model 347
- November 12 - Nihon XC-1
- November 16 - Lockheed L-1011
Entered service
January- January 22 - Boeing 747 with Pan Am
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