The Mollisons also flew in record time from Britain to India in 1934 in a de Havilland DH. 88 Comet as part of the Britain to Australia MacRobertson Air Race.

* Air Comet, its IATA airline designator

Near the war memorial, the Air Crash Memorial is a memorial to several young people from the town killed on 3 July 1970 when a Dan Air de Havilland Comet deviated from its intended course and crashed into high ground at Sierra Del Montseny, Girona in north-eastern Spain.

* Air Comet, a defunct Spanish airline

In 1934, the MacRobertson Air Race from England to Australia took place with the winning de Havilland Comet flown by C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black.

* MPD, the ICAO airline designator for Air Comet

In 1947, the Silver Comet was introduced by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad during the height of passenger rail use.

The scene in which Scott takes off with Courtney clinging to the wing, switches to a shot of a Travel Air 4U Speedwing fitted with a round cowl over its Comet engine to resemble the Nieuports.

* May 18 – Seaboard Air Line Railroad inaugurates the Silver Comet passenger train between New York City and Birmingham, Alabama.

Air Comet ( formerly Air Plus Comet ) was an airline based in Madrid, Spain.

The airline was established in 23 December 1996 as Air Plus Comet and started operations in 1 March 1997, with base at Madrid Barajas Airport.

) became the foundation of Air Plus Comet.

It relaunched as a full service carrier under the Air Comet name in January 2007.

In January 2007, Air Comet took over some of the now defunct Air Madrid airline's Latin American routes.

Air Comet Airbus A310-300 at Madrid-Barajas

Air Comet Airbus A320-211 ( EC-KBM ) lands at Almería International Airport

On 11 February 2009, Air Comet has been suspended from IATA Clearing House due to non-payment of January balance.

On 21 December 2009, a High Court in London emitted a verdict favouring the German bank HSH Nordbank, which had sued Air Comet for not meeting the terms of payment for their leased aircraft.

Air Comet flew to the following destinations ( as of December 2009 ):

* 1927 – The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.

* 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.

* 1943 – World War II: U. S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.

Each character begins with twenty points to divide between four Element scores roughly equivalent to statistics for Strength ( Fire ), Perception ( Water ), Intelligence ( Air ) and Endurance ( Earth ).

* 1931 – United Airlines begins service ( as Boeing Air Transport ).

* 1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.

* 1925 – Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.

* 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U. S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.

In response, the United States Strategic Air Command begins scrambling B-52 bombers.

* June 17 – An Air France personnel strike begins.

** WWII: In response to Germany levelling Coventry 2 days before, the Royal Air Force begins to bomb Hamburg ( by war's end, 50, 000 Hamburg residents will have died from Allied attacks ).

** Air France begins operations with 250 planes.

The swearing-in ceremony begins with the arrival at 7 Rideau Gate of one of the ministers of the Crown, who then accompanies the governor general-designate to Parliament Hill, where a Canadian Forces Guard of Honour ( consisting of the Army Guard, Air Force Guard, and Flag Party of the Navy ) awaits to give a general salute.

* 1942 San Marcos Army Air Field begins construction.

* September 9 – Island Air begins operations in Hawaii.

* December 19 – New York Air begins airline operations.

* May 21-British ground troops begin landing at San Carlos on East Falkland Island, and the Argentinian Air Force begins a seven-day-long bombing campaign against British ships in Falkland Sound and San Carlos Water ; it will be the Royal Navy's largest combat engagement since the end of World War II in August 1945.

* September 1 – Air Canada, Canada's largest airline, begins operations.

Although 431 Air Demonstration Squadron was formed in 1978, its history truly begins during the Second World War when as part of the Commonwealth contribution to aircrew for the war in Europe 431 ( Iroquois ) Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force was created under the control of RAF Bomber Command.

Apparently he believes that they are received from airborne transmission, as he begins breathing through his shirt and shouting " Air filter!

The history of the Royal Canadian Air Force begins in 1920, when the air force was created as the Canadian Air Force ( CAF ).

Saya's next mission begins at the American Yokota Air Base, which is active in the buildup to the Vietnam War.

The history of Eighth Air Force begins on 2 January 1942 with its activation at Savannah Air Base, Georgia.