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1956 - 2026, Celebrating 70 Years of Service


This Day in History:
September 21, 1947

An Air Force C-54 transport, The Big Push, equipped with robot flying equipment and an automatic pilot, flies from Clinton County AFB, Wilmington, OH to Brize Norton, England, and returns under automatic control - the first fully automatic transatlantic flight.