6 May 2010. A PZL-104 (Polish designed and built short-takeoff-and-landing civil aviation utility aircraft carrying the UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage crashed at Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield, Northamptonshire.

6 May 1993. 14.29.59 UTC/GMT. Landing of Columbia at Edwards Runway 22 after STS-55, a multinational Spacelab flight involving 88 experiments from eleven different nations ranging from biology sciences to simple Earth observations.

6 May 1991. 18.55.37 UTC/GMT. Landing of Space Shuttle Discovery at Kennedy SLF Runway 15 after STS-39. The mission conducted a variety of classified and unclassified payload bay experiments for the Department of Defence.

6 May 1988. First flight of the Extra Flugzeugbau EA300. German aerobatic two-seat monoplane capable of unlimited category competition.

6 May 1985. 16.11.04 UTC/GMT. Landing of Space Shuttle Challenger after STS-51-B, at Edwards Runway 17, the second flight of the European Space Agency's Spacelab, and the first with the Spacelab module in a fully operational configuration.

6 May 1982. First flight of the second prototype (SP-PSB) PZL Swidnik W-3 'Sokol' helicopter.

6 May 1968. Left: Aerial view of the crashed Lunar Landing Training Vehicle-1 (LLTV-1) at Ellington in Houston. Right: Ground level view of the crashed LLTV-1 at Ellington. Armstrong said: “It was a contrary machine, and a risky machine, but a very useful one.”

6 May 1968. Astronaut Neil Armstrong ejected from Bell Aerospace Lunar Landing Research Vehicle No. 1 (LLRV-1) at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Centre, Ellington AFB, Houston, Texas.

6 May 1966. X-15 No.1 landed off the lakebed at Delamar on flight 1-63-04 after a premature engine shutdown at 31 seconds. John 'Jack' Barron McKay (8 December 1922 – 27 April 1975) was the pilot.

6 May 1965. 23.47.50 UTC/GMT. Launch of Intelsat 1 'Early Bird' from Cape Canaveral LC-17A. The first (commercial) communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.

6 May 1959. First flight of the SNECMA C-450 'Coléoptère'. French experimental VTOL jet aircraft featuring an annular wing designed to land vertically. Powered by an Atar EV (101E) axial turbojet of 8,200 lbf thrust.

6 May 1945. At 18.39hrs in the Skagerak northeast of Skagen Horn, Denmark, the Royal Air Force sank its last German submarine (U-3523) a type XXI U-boat, by depth charges with the loss of all (58) hands. A British B-24 Liberator MkVIII bomber from 86G Squadron.

6 May 1945. Chance Vought F4U-1D Corsair aboard USS Bunker Hill (CV-17).

6 May 1944. First flight of Mitsubishi A7M1 'Reppu'. Japanese fighter prototype, designed as the successor to the Imperial Japanese Navy's A6M Zero, with a maximum speed of 356 mph. Powered by a 2,000 hp Nakajima Homare 22 engine.

6 May 1944. First flight of the Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster 43-50224. American high speed experimental aircraft powered by two Allison V-1710-125 liquid-cooled V-12 engines behind the cabin, each driving one of a pair of tail-mounted contra-rotating propellers.

6 May 1942. First flight of the Kawanishi N1K1 'Kyofu'. Japanese single-seat float-equipped interceptor seaplane. Powered by a Mitsubishi Kasei 14 radial engine of 1,460hp. Poor results from a contra-rotating propeller led to substitution with three blade single unit.

110 Squadron Bristol Blenheim R3600 is being armed with 250 lb HE bombs and small bomb containers of 416 incendiaries at Wattisham in June 1940. After 48 operational sorties R3600 was lost in action on 6 May 1941.

6 May 1941. Igor Sikorsky piloted his Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter to a new world record for endurance at Stratford, Connecticut. He flew for 1 hour, 32 minutes, 26 seconds.

6 May 1941. First flight of the Republic XP-47B Thunderbolt prototype 40-3051, also known as the 'Jug'. Test pilot Lowery Lawson Brabham flew from the Republic Aviation Corporation factory airfield at Farmingdale, New York, to Mitchel Field, New York.

6 May 1940. First flight of the Dewoitine D-750. French low-wing monoplane twin-engine three seat torpedo bomber prototype. Powered by two 500 hp Renault 12R air-cooled inverted V12 engines.