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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1967:

1 Events

January

• January 2 - Seven North Vietnamese Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 ( NATO reporting name Fresco is a Russian jet fighter aircraft armed with 3 cannons, considered to be most effective in action against enemy aircraft. Its bombload was considered light relative to other aircraft of the time sins are destroyed by F-4 Phantoms of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing USAF in Operation Bolo
• January 2 - the contracts for the development of the Boeing SST and its engines are awarded

February

• February 22February 22 is the 53rd day of every year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 312 days remaining, 313 in leap years. Events 1290s BC The coronation of Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple. 1281 Martin IV becomes Pop - 845 of the 173rd Airborne BrigadeThe 173d Airborne Brigade was constituted 5 August 1917 as an infantry brigade and organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Pike, Arkansas as an element of the 87th Division. The Brigade deployed to France in 1918 as part of the Division, but did participate in a take part in Operation Junction City , the only paratrooperParatroopers are soldiers trained in parachuting and formed into an airborne force. Paratroopers have a tactical advantage in that they can appear on the battlefield anywhere that aircraft can fly over. Thus they can evade enemy fortifications designed to assault of the Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War was a war fought between 1957 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos See Secret War) and in bombing runs ( Rolling Thunder) over North Vietnam. See also the timeline of the Vietnam War. Fighting on
• February 26February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 308 days remaining, 309 in leap years. Events 747 BC Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era. 1266 Battle of Benevento: French forces, under Charles of Anjou, overcome a combi - US Navy A-6 Intruders of VA-35 drop sea mines in the mouth of the Song Ca and Song Giang rivers

April

• April 18 - Aeroflot and Japan Air Lines jointly inaugurate a Moscow- Tokyo service

May

• May 31 - A USAF KC-135 Stratotanker makes an emergency refuelling of six US Navy jets.

June

• June 5 - Boeing delivers its 1,000th jet airliner, a Boeing 707-120B for American Airlines
• June 5- 10 - the Six Day War is fought between Israel and her Arab neighbours. In a pre-emptive strike, the Israeli Air Force destroys half of the Egyptian Air Force on the first night. By the end of the six days, 452 Arab aircraft had been destroyed for a loss of 46 Israeli aircraft.

August

• August 7 - Aerolineas Argentinas and Iberia jointly inaugurate the world's longest non-stop air route, between Buenos Aires and Madrid
• August 11 - F-105 Thunderchiefs of the 355th Tactical Fighter Wing USAF cut the Paul Doumer bridge , using 100 tons of bombs.

October

• October 3 - William J. Knight sets a new airspeed record in a North American X-15, of Mach 6.72 (4,543 mph, 7,297 km/h). This is the fastest flight that the X-15 will make.

December

• December 31 - the Royal Air Force's V-bomber force begins to be dismantled, pending the deployment of the Polaris missile aboard Royal Navy submarines to act as Britain's nuclear deterrent.
• December 31 - NASA begins initial talks to develop guidelines for a re-usable spaceplane.