Today in Aviation History - November

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November 1

In 1944... The International Civil Aviation Conference opens in Chicago.

In 1955... The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs.

In 2007... Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and Pilot of B-29 "Enola Gay" over Hiroshima, dies (b. 1915)
 
November 2

In 1931... The USS Akron, a purpose-built aircraft-carrying airship, is commissioned.

In 1947... In California, Designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose (HK-1 Flying Boat) ; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.

In 1952... Marine Corps Maj. William Stratton and Master Sgt. Hans Hoagland, in a Douglas F3D Skyknight, down a North Korean Yak-15, marking the first victory in a jet-versus-jet night action.
 
November 3

In 1897... The 1st all-metal rigid airship is tested in Germany. It uses wafer-thin aluminum, a major innovation, but crashes soon after taking off.

In 1926... Captain Charles Lindbergh jumps from his disabled airplane during a night airmail flight, making this his 4th time he has had to use his parachute to save his life.

In 1949... Charles Moore makes the 1st manned flight in a polyethylene balloon over Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 
November 4

In 1884... Harry Ferguson, Northern Irish aviator and inventor and the first person to fly in Ireland, was born (d. 1960).

In 1910... The 1st dirigible to fly from England to France is the British non-rigid airship City of Cardiff, built by E.T. Willows.

In 1953... The Douglas DC-7 begins service with American Airlines, allowing the company to offer coast-to-coast, nonstop service.

In 1980... Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer and the worlds first female aircraft designer, died (b. 1905).

In 1993... A China Airlines Boeing 747 overran Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.
 
November 5

In 1908... Wilbur Wright receives the Grand Gold Medal of the Aéro Club of France for advances in aviation.

In 1910... The Willows airship N° 3 City of Cardiff arrives after the 1st dirigible flight across the English Channel, flying from London in 10 hours and 30 minutes.

In 1911... Calbraith Rodgers becomes the 1st person to cross the United States in an airplane.

In 1981... First full-scale development McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II makes its first flight.

In 2007... First Northrop Grumman-Built Production T-38 Trainer Aircraft Makes Its Final Touchdown in Los Angeles and rolled to a stop for the very last time after 45 years of service.
 
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November 6

In 1915... The 1st catapult launching of an airplane from a moving ship is made from the USS North Carolina in Pensacola, Florida.

In 1935... First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.

In 1945... The 1st jet plane to land on an aircraft carrier is a Ryan FR-1 piloted by U.S. Navy Ensign Jake West.

In 1998... The first production F/A-18E/F Super Hornet makes its first flight.
 
November 7

In 1910... The 1st use of an airplane to carry commercial freight is the Wright Company’s airplane that flies from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio carrying 10 bolts of silk to the Morehouse-Martens Company.

In 1945... The 1st speed record of over 600 mph is established by British pilot Hugh Wilson in a Gloster Meteor jet fighter at 606 mph.

In 1996... A Nigerian Boeing 727 crashes into a lagoon 40 miles southeast of Lagos, killing 143.

In 2001... The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month hiatus.
 
November 8

In 1881... Robert Estnault-Pelterie, early aviation pioneer is born. He invented ailerons and coined the word astronautics.

In 1950... Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
 
November 9

In 1904... Wilbur Wright flies for five minutes, four seconds over Huffman Prairie, Ohio, covering 2 ¾ miles.

In 1932... Wolfgang von Gronau and crew in a Dornier Wal complete the 1st flight around the world by a seaplane. Their flight takes 111 days.

In 1944... The Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter prototype, Model 367, makes its first flight in Seattle. After the war it will be redesigned as an aerial tanker.

In 1978... The first McDonnell Douglas St. Louis-built Harrier, a prototype AV-8B Harrier II V/STOL attack aircraft for the Marines, makes its first flight.

In 1999... TAESA Flight 725, goes down a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident.
 
November 10

In 1907... Louis Bleriot introduces what will become the modern configuration of the airplane. His No.VII has an enclosed or covered fuselage (body), a single set of wings (monoplane), a tail unit, and a propeller in front of the engine.

In 1907... Henri Farman makes the 1st flight in Europe of over one minute in his Voisin-Farman I biplane in France.

In 1933... Ronald Evans (Captain, USN Ret.), American astronaut was born (d. 1990). Evans was the command module pilot of Apollo 17, the last scheduled manned mission to the moon for the United States. As of 2007, he holds the record of more time in lunar orbit than anyone else in the world. Evans flew F-8 Crusader aircraft from the carrier USS Ticonderoga during a period of seven months in Vietnam combat operation. The total flight time accrued during his career was 5,100 hours, including 4,600 hours in jet aircraft.

In 1972... Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.

In 2005... The Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner establishes a new world record for nonstop distance by a commercial airplane, flying 11,664 nautical miles in 22 hours and 42 minutes from Hong Kong to London.
 
November 11

In 1935... Orville Anderson and Albert Stevens in Explorer II establish altitude record for balloons of 72,395 feet in the United States.
 
November 12

In 1903... The 1st fully practical airship, the Lebaudy, makes a successful flight in Paris, France. The 190-foot-long airship flies 38 ½ miles and achieves a speed of 25-mph.

In 1906... Alberto Santos-Dumont flies some 720 feet and wins the Aéro-Club de France prize for exceeding 100 meters.

In 1912... The 1st successful catapult launch of a seaplane is made at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard. Catapulted by a compressed air system from an anchored barge, the floatplane is a Curtiss A-1.

In 1921... The 1st air-to-air refueling is made when American Wesley May steps from the wing of one aircraft to that of another carrying a five-gallon can of gasoline strapped to his back.

In 1944... The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.

In 1981... The 2nd shuttle mission of Columbia 2. It was the 1st time a spacecraft was launched twice.

In 1996... A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. See New Delhi Air Crash.

In 2001... In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
 
November 13

In 1907... The 1st piloted helicopter rises vertically in free flight in France. Built by Paul Cornu, it’s powered by a 24-hp Antoinette engine driving two motors.
 
November 14

In 1910... The birth of the aircraft carrier occurs when Eugene Ely takes off from the cruiser USS Birmingham in Virginia, on a Curtiss biplane. The warship has an 83-foot platform built over the foredeck for the take-off.

In 1930... Edward White (Lt.Col , USAF), American astronaut, was born (d. 1967). On June 3, 1965, he became the first American to conduct a spacewalk. White was killed during the Apollo 1 training accident and posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the Purple Heart Medal.

IN 1933... Fred Haise, American astronaut, was born. Haise was the Lunar Module Pilot on the aborted Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970. He later flew five flights as the Commander of the space shuttle Enterprise, in 1977, for the Approach and Landing Test Program at Edwards Air Force Base, and was selected to command the original STS-2 mission to rescue the Skylab space station in 1979, but was cancelled due to the long delays in the Shuttle's development as well as the break-up of the Skylab in mid-1979.

In 1941... The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13.

In 1969... NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.

In 1970... Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.

In 1974... McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle enters operational service with the Air Force's Tactical Air Command.
 
November 15

In 1906... Curtis LeMay, U.S. Air Force general, is born (d. 1990). Lemay took over a B-17 Flying Fortress unit in England in October 1942, as part of the Eighth Air Force and led it in combat until May 1943, notably helping to develop the combat box formation. He was a general in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of independent candidate George C. Wallace in 1968.

In 1916... The Model C two-place training seaplane was the first "all-Boeing" designed aircraft makes it's first flight.

In 1929... The McDonnell Doodlebug makes its first flight. The Doodlebug was a two-seat, low-wing monoplane and was the first airplane James McDonnell both designed and built.

In 1942... First flight of the Heinkel He 219.

In 1956... A Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) Douglas DC-7C sets a new distance record for commercial airlines by flying 6,005 miles nonstop from Los Angeles to Stockholm, Sweden, following the Great Arctic Circle route.
In 1965... The 1st flight around the world over flying both Poles is made by U.S. airline Flying Tigerline Captain J.L. Martin.

In 1966... A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.

In 1967... The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.

In 1978... A chartered DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.

In 1979... A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

In 1987... Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.

In 1999... The U.S. Postal Service unveils the new 33-cent "Jumbo Jet" postage stamp honoring the Boeing 747.

In 2000... A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people.

In 2005... Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
 
November 16

In 1915... Victor Carlstrom becomes the 1st pilot to fly from Toronto to New York. Carlstrom flies in a Curtiss R-2 biplane and was in the air for 6 hours and 40 minutes.

In 1920... Qantas, the national airline of Australia is registered as an aerial carrier under the name of “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited”. Only KLM (now part of Air France-KLM) and Avianca are older.

In 2004... The Boeing X-43 scramjet becomes the fastest air-breathing jet flying at nearly Mach 10 at approx. 11,200 km/h or 3.11 km/s.





(In 2007... Lisa posts her 1000th post to PilotsofAmerica.com :D)
 
November 17

In 1906... The Daily Mail of London offers a £10,000 prize for the 1st flight from London to Manchester.

In 1910... Ralph Johnstone, pioneer pilot, becomes the 1st 'American' pilot killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver, Colorado.

In 1962... President John F. Kennedy dedicates the Dulles International Airport in Herndon, Virginia.
 
November 18


In 1923... Alan Shepard (Rear Admiral, USN, Ret.) , American astronaut, was born (d. 1998). Shepard was the first American in space. He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth person to walk on the moon.

In 1930... The Boeing XP-9 monoplane fighter makes its 1st flight in Dayton, Ohio.

In 1943... Battle of Berlin (air), 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lost nine aircraft and 53 air crew.

In 1975... Boeing Wichita delivers its first modified B-52D to the Strategic Air Command.

In 1978... The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet naval strike fighter makes its first flight.
 
November 19

In 1938... Construction begins on a new airport serving the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. Built in nearby Virginia, this airport will become Ronald Reagan National Airport.

In 1952... A North American F-86D Sabre Jet fighter sets a new world speed record of 698.505 mph.

In 1969... Mohawk Airlines Flight 411 crashes into Pilot Knob Mountain, killing all 14 on-board.
 
November 20

In 1919... The 1st municipal airport in the United States opens in Tucson, Arizona and is still in use today.

In 1945... The Boeing B-29 Pacusan Dreamboat sets a world nonstop distance record of 8,198 miles on a flight from Guam to Washington, D.C.

In 1953... The 1st man to exceed Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound) is American test pilot Scott Crossfield in a Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket.

In 1963... The first McDonnell-built Air Force Phantoms, F-4Cs, are delivered to a Tactical Air Command squadron.

In 1993... An Avioimpex Yak 42D crashes near Ohrid, Macedonia. The aircraft was on a flight from Geneva, Switzerland to Skopje, but had been diverted to Ohrid due to poor weather conditions at the Skopje airport. On landing the aircraft crashed into Mount Trojani near Ohrid. All eight crew members and 115 of the 116 passengers were killed.



November 21

In 1783... The 1st free or untethered human flight takes place when Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier flies as high as 500 feet and travels 5 miles over Paris in a Montgolfier hot-air balloon.



November 22

In 1898... Wiley Post, American pilot, was born (d. 1935). Wiley Post was the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Also known for his work in high altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits.

In 1909... Wright Company is incorporated with a capital stock of $1,000,000. Formed to manufacture airplanes, the company’s president is Wilbur Wright and his brother Orville is the vice president.



November 23

In 1942... Dubbed "Flying Flapjack," the most radical conventionally-engined aircraft ever built makes its 1st flight when Chance Vought test pilot, Boone T. Guyton, takes the V-173 into the air.

In 1947... The Convair XC-99 (serial no. 43-52436) makes its first flight, piloted by Russell R. Rogers.

In 1962... United Airlines Flight 297 crashes killing all 17 on-board.

In 1985... Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid.

In 1989... An Airbus A310-300 opens Air France's new direct Lyon/New York service.

In 1996... Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 123.


November 24

In 1955... The prototype Fokker F.27 Friendship medium-range twin-turboprop transport flies for the 1st time.

In 1992... In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.



November 25

In 1940... First flight of the deHavilland mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.

In 1956... U.S. Air Force Sergeant Richard Patton makes the 1st successful parachute jump in Antarctica. He jumps from 1,500 feet as a test to determine the cause of parachute malfunction in sub-zero weather conditions.

In 1956... Eight Boeing B-52s complete a record nonstop flight of 17,000 miles over the North Pole.



November 26

In 1939... British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) is established through the amalgamation of Imperial Airways and British Airways.

In 1943... Edward O'Hare, American ace pilot, dies (b. 1914). O'Hare became the U.S. Navy's first flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. O'Hare International Airport was named after him on September 19, 1949.

In 1968... United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.

In 2003... Concorde makes its last ever flight over Bristol, England.



(sorry these are late, I'm trying to get caught up from being off on vacation for a week)
 
November 27

In 1912... The aeronautical division of the US Army Signal Corps receives the 1st “flying boat”, a Curtiss Model F, capable of takeoff from water.

In 1923... The Douglas Co. is awarded a $192,684 contract by the War Department to build four DWC aircraft and spares.

In 1952... James D. Wetherbee, American astronaut, was born. Wetherbee is a veteran of six space shuttle missions, and is the only American to have commanded five missions.
 
November 28

In 1929... American Commander Richard Byrd and crew make the 1st flight over the South Pole, in a Ford 4-AT Trimotor monoplane, November 28-29.

In 1942... Roll out of the first B-24 Liberator made in Ford's Willow Run plant.

In 1945... Pan American World Airways orders 20 Boeing Stratocruisers (Model 377), a commercial version of the C-97 military transport.

In 1967... First flight of the Douglas DC-9-40.

In 1979... An Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.

In 1987... South African Airways flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.
 
November 29

In 1929... U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.

In 1945... A U.S. Army Sikorsky R-5 helicopter off the coast of Long Island, New York, makes the 1st air-sea rescue.

In 1949... The Douglas C-124 Globemaster II, a heavy strategic cargo transport, makes its first flight.

In 1951... The first Boeing B-52 bomber is secretly rolled out in darkness at the Seattle plant.

In 1963... Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831: A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal.

In 1987... A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.

In 1995... The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18E/F Super Hornet makes its first flight.

In 1995... The first McDonnell Douglas AV-8B remanufactured to a Harrier II Plus configuration makes its first flight.
 
November 30

In 1784... Jean-Pierre Blanchard makes the 1st scientific observations from above the earth in a hydrogen balloon over London.

In 1905... The Aero Club of America is established in New York City.

In 1907... Glenn Curtiss founds the Curtiss Aeroplane Company. It is the 1st US airplane manufacturing company.

In 1908... La Compagnie Generale de Navigation Aérienne, the French Wright company, is organized.

In 2004... Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
 
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