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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1956:

1 Events

March

• March 10 - Lt Cdr Peter Twiss sets a new airspeed record in the Fairey Delta FD.2 , also becoming the first person to exceed 1,000 mph. His top speed is 1,132 mph (1,821 km/h).

May

• May 21 - a B-52 StratofortressB-52 Stratofortress Description RoleHeavy bomber, missile platform Crew5aircraft commander, pilot, radar navigator, navigator and electronic warfare officer Dimensions Length159 ft 4 in48. 5 m Wingspan185 ft56. 4 m Height40 ft 8 in12. 4 m Wing area4,000 f drops the US's first air-dropped hydrogen bomb, a 3.75 MT device on Bikini AtollBikini Atoll (also known as Pikinni Atoll is an uninhabited 6. 0 square kilometer atoll in one of the Micronesian Islands in the Pacific Ocean at 11°30' N 165°25' E. It is a member of the Marshall Islands. It consists of 36 islands surrounding a 594.

June

• June 1June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. Events 193 Roman Emperor Marcus Didius is assassinated in his palace. 1485 Matthias of Hungary took Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frede - Eastern AirlinesFor the Chinese airline, see China Eastern Airlines. Eastern Airlines was a United States airline company that existed from the late 1920s to 1991. History Eastern Air Lines began life on April 19, 1926 as Pitcairn Aviation. Pitcairn won a government cont buys National AirlinesThis article is not a list of national airlines; for that see National airlines (with a lower-case "a"). National Airlines was a United States-based airline. It was founded in 1934 as a Florida-based airline. November 10 of 1958, National became the first.
• June 20June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. Events 1214 University of Oxford receives its charter. 1685 Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth declared himself King of England at Bridgwa - the US Navy commissions its first helicopter carrier , USS Thetis Bay
• June 30 - a TWA Lockheed Constellation and United Airlines Douglas DC-7 collide in mid-air over the Grand Canyon and crash. The 128 people aboard the two aircraft are all killed. The accident prompts tighter air traffic control to be implemented in the United States.

September

• September 7 - the Bell X-2 research aircraft is flown by Captain Iven C. Kincheloe to a new altitude record of 126,200 ft (38,466 m).
• September 24 - the Luftwaffe is re-formed in West Germany
• September 27 - Milburn Apt sets a new airspeed record in the Bell X-2, becoming the first person to exceed Mach 3, reaching a speed of 2,094 mph (3,350 km/h) before he lost control of the X-2 and died in the resulting crash

October

• October 11 - a Vickers Valiant of No. 49 Squadron RAF drops Britain's first air-dropped atomic bomb, over Maralinga, South Australia
• October 31 - a US Navy R4D Skytrain is the first aircraft to land at the South Pole

November

• November 28 - the Ryan X-13 Vertijet makes its first transition from vertical to horizontal flight