On this day in Air Force history --
1917: The 1st Aero Squadron sails for Europe under command of Maj Ralph Royce; first squadron to report for flying duty in the AEF.
1944: Two GB-4 Glide Bombs, with television and radio controls, are launched against E-boat pens at Le Havre, France.
1953: XC-99, world’s largest plane to date, makes its 1st transatlantic flight from Kelly AFB to Frankfurt with 60,000 pounds of cargo. (correction: Spruce Goose was the largest)
1998: A 437 AW C-17 from Charleston AFB returns 10 of 12 victims of Nairobi Embassy terrorist bombing to Andrews AFB.
The XC-99 is resting in parts at Wright Patterson in Dayton.. They only made one of these but even with the Xperimental designation they used the hell out of it. It was grounded in June of 1957 and had logged 7,430 hours and had carried 60 million pounds of cargo while it was operational. It's load capacity was 100,000 pounds and with that load had an estimated range of 1720 miles. It held many unofficial records such as speed over a closed course while carrying a payload, 22 payload/distance records, and 7 altitude records.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4-YgrksFbs