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NTK GROUP HISTORY
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AVIATION HISTORY
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1977
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Established as a food importer/supplier for the Japan Defense Agency in Tokyo |
1977 North American Rockwell space shuttle completes its first landing.
-Oct. 28-30, 1977. Pan American Boeing 747 sets speed record for circling globe over both poles on 26,383-mile passenger flight from San Francisco; elapsed time, including three on-ground refuelings: 54 hours, 7 minutes, 12 seconds.
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1982
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The company changed its specialty from foodstuff to aerospace/defense related commodities and established an international department. |
Sept. 1982 - First round the world flight by helicopter completed by H. Ross Perot & Jay Coburn
November 11-16, 1982 - STS-5, Space Shuttle Columbia, launched on first operational mission. Astronauts deployed two commercial communications satellites |
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1985
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Established a branch in Nagoya |
12 May 1985 - The new RAF airfield at Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands was opened by His Royal Highness Prince Andrew.
October 3-7, 1985 - STS-51J: First flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis
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1986
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Established NTK Aviation America in California which specializes in the export of aerospace and defense products |
January 24, 1986 - Voyager 2: First encounter with Uranus
March 13, 1986 - Leonid Kizim and Vladimir Soloviev become the first crew launched to Mir
Dec 14-23, 1986 - Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan make the first nonstop flight around the world without refueling in their specially designed aircraft, Voyager.
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1991
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Established Space Development Division which specializes in the design and manufacturing of hardware/software for aerospace programs |
July 15, 1991 - NASA research pilot Edward Schneider flew the F/A-18 High Angle-of-Attack Research Vehicle (HARV), with thrust-vectoring paddles, for repair and reboost
October 3, 1991 - Marta Bohn-Meyer becomes the first woman crew member of the SR-71 Blackbird
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1996
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Established a pharmacetical division in Tokyo as a wholesale drug store |
February 7, 1996 - The Concorde makes its fastest ever crossing time from New York to London in 2 hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds
September 26, 1996 - STS-79: Shannon Lucid returns from Mir after setting U.S. record for continuous stay in space and beginning a more than two-year continuing U.S. presence in space
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2002
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Established a Strategic Integration and Sourcing (SIS) division in Los Angeles as strategic outsourced marketing and sourcing |
July 2, 2002 - Steve Fossett, in the 180-foot-tall "Spirit of Freedom" balloon, circumnavigates the globe on his sixth try.
July 30, 2002 - The first successful flight test of a hypersonic scramjet engine in Australia. This air-breathing scramjet engine, which burns hydrogen fuel, could theoretically power aircraft at Mach 8, for two-hour trans-Atlantic flights.
July 31, 2002 - First flight of the Boeing 747-ER, which can carry 15,000 more pounds of people or cargo and can fly about 410 nautical miles farther than existing 747-400s
August 25, 2002 - NASA set a world record for the largest balloon successfully launched, when it flew a 60 million cubic foot balloon carrying a 1,500-pound scientific payload to the fringes of space.
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2009
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Establishment of NTK.COX Calibration Center in Hachioji, Tokyo
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