{"id":1305,"date":"2016-05-27T04:34:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T09:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2016-05-27T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T16:57:26","slug":"may-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"May 27, a very famous date in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 27<\/strong> is a very famous date in history. Among the moments in history recorded on this date are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1919, a United States\u00a0Navy seaplane completed the first transatlantic flight. The flight was operated by a Curtis NC-4 flying boat. The planes route\u00a0originated in\u00a0New York state, and ended in Lisbon, Portugal 19 days later.\u00a0This long route was a result of several rest and maintenance stops along the way. The feat seemed relatively insignificant 2 weeks later, when the first nonstop transatlantic flight was completed\u00a0by RAF pilots John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown in only\u00a015 hours and 57 minutes.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1931, Auguste\u00a0Piccard and Charles Knipfer became\u00a0the first men to ever enter\u00a0the stratosphere. This feat was accomplished in a balloon which reached a peak height of 51,777 feet during the 17 hour journey that began in\u00a0Augsburg, German.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1937,\u00a0the Golden Gate Bridge in California was opened to pedestrian traffic. The\u00a04,200 foot long suspension bridge\u00a0connecting San Francisco to\u00a0Marin County took 5 years to complete, with the bridge\u00a0opening to vehicle traffic the following day.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1941, the German battleship\u00a0Bismarck\u00a0was sunk by torpedoes launched by British naval air forces.\u00a0The Bismarck was ordered to sail\u00a0into the Atlantic Ocean by Adolf Hitler. Once in the open sea, she would become virtually\u00a0impossible to hunt\u00a0down. Upon gaining intelligence of her departure, Britain sent a battle fleet out to hunt her down. On May 24, the British battlecruiser HMS Hood\u00a0and battleship HMS Prince of Wales\u00a0located the Bismarck as the ship was making its way into the Atlantic. In a horrific\u00a0battle, the HMS\u00a0Hood\u00a0exploded and sank after her powder magazine was struck by a shell from the German ship. Only 3\u00a0of her crew of\u00a01,421 men survived the blast. The\u00a0Bismarck managed to escape following the battle, but was leaking fuel oil due to damage it sustained during battle. As the German ship\u00a0fled to\u00a0France for repairs, she was sighted by British reconnaissance aircraft. She was finally crippled\u00a0by torpedo aircraft launched by the HMS Ark Royal on May 27, before being finished off by\u00a0the British surface fleet later that same day.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1969, construction began on Walt Disney World\u00a0in Florida. The new 43 square mile development was planned\u00a0to compliment Disneyland, as only 5% of visitors to the California theme park came from east of the Mississippi River.\u00a0Walt\u00a0Disney would die on December 15, 1966,\u00a0before construction of the new park began. You can watch a video of the\u00a0making of Disney World at this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KxCvnxYIKnA\" target=\"_blank\">Making Disney World<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1308\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/May-27-300x111.jpg\" alt=\"May 27\" width=\"638\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/May-27-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/May-27-768x285.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/May-27-1024x380.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/May-27.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 27 is a very famous date in history. Among the moments in history recorded on this date are: In 1919, a United States\u00a0Navy seaplane completed the first transatlantic flight. The flight was operated by a Curtis NC-4 flying boat. The planes route\u00a0originated in\u00a0New York state, and ended in Lisbon, Portugal 19 days later.\u00a0This long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[330,321,322,325,326,323,318,317,319,324,327,328,320,329,331],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-ark-royal","tag-arthur-whitten-brown","tag-auguste-piccard","tag-battleship","tag-bismarck","tag-charles-knipfer","tag-curtis-nc-4","tag-first-transatlantic-flight","tag-flying-boat","tag-golden-gate-bridge","tag-hms","tag-hood","tag-john-alcock","tag-prince-of-wales","tag-walt-disney-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}