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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1957:

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 Please note that the link to CHRISTMAS ISLAND is incorrect. The link goes to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean (an Australian protectorate). However, The Christmas Island where the British hydrogen bombs were tested was in the PACIFIC OCEAN, near to Hawaii. This island, one of the Line Islands, was subsequently returned to the Gilbertese people who renamed it KIRIBATI. There is no connection between the Indian Ocean Christmas Island and the British Army bomb testing.

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

October 4 - Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite is launched into orbit

October 4 - The Avro CF-105 Arrow rolled out from the Malton plant (in Toronto, Ontario, Canada).

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 February

February 17 - Bell X-14 March

March 28 - Canadair Argus April

April 17 - Nord N 3202 May

May 16 - Saunders-Roe SR.53 July

July 4 - Ilyushin Il-18

July 9 - Aviation Traders Accountant

July 16 - Aerotécnica AC-14 September

- Cessna 150 November

November 6 - Fairey Rotodyne December

December 10 - Aermacchi MB-326

Entered service

February

February 1 - Bristol Britannia with BOAC March

March 8 - Grumman F11F Tiger with VA-156

March 25 - Vought F8U Crusader with VF-32 Swordsmen May

McDonnell F-101A Voodoo with USAF June

June 28 - KC-135 Stratotanker with 93rd Air Refueling Squadron November

November 19 - Fokker Friendship with Aer Lingus

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