October 16 was declared Day of Bulgarian Aviation and Air Force in 1963 in honour of the fact that in 1912 lieutenants Radul Milkov and Prodan Tarakchiev carried out the first military surveillance flight in the world, over the Edirne fortress in Turkey under Bulgarian siege... October 16 was declared Day of Bulgarian Aviation and Air Force in 1963 in honour of the fact that in 1912 lieutenants Radul Milkov and Prodan Tarakchiev carried out the first military surveillance flight in the world, over the Edirne fortress in Turkey under Bulgarian siege. The crew dropped two hand grenades over Karaagaç in Turkey, an important military target in the First Balkan War. |
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