Yak Shaving Day 2015

September 24, 1929 - First Instrument Flight

24 September 1929: Lieutenant James H. Doolittle, U.S. Army Air Corps, made the first completely blind airplane takeoff flight and landing, solely by reference to instruments on board his aircraft.

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