July 27th
1882
One Geoffrey De Havilland is born
1949
And by an ironic coincidence this day saw the first flight of the worlds first commercial jet airliner The De Havilland Comet...... When it wasn't falling out of the sky!!
2002
An Su27 crashes during an airshow in Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 spectators and injuring hundreds more in what is the worst airshow disaster in history
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