NOV05

1917 - Birth of Jacqueline Auriol (Born Jacqueline Marie-Thérèse Suzanne Douet) , French aviatrix who set several world speed records.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Auriol

1918 - Death of Arthur John Palliser, Australian WWI flying ace, killed in action in his Sopwith Snipe.

http://www.southsearepublic.org/2002_1999/afc_aces_palliser.htm - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/australi/palliser.php

1918 - 1st flight of the SPAD S-XXIV, French single seat biplane fighter prototype.

http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9570

1921 - Bert Acosta flying the Curtiss-Navy racer R-1 wins the Pulitzer Race at Omaha, Nebraska, with a world record speed of 176.7 mph (284.36 km/h).

http://aerofiles.com/pulitzer.html - http://www.airrace.com/ConciseHist.htm

1931 - 1st flight of the Boeing Y1B-9 (model 214), Evolution of the Model 215/YB-9, american all-metal monoplane bomber aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YB-9

1934 - 1st flight of the SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM, Soviet semi-rigid airship, designed by the Italian engineer and airship designer Umberto Nobile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSSR-V6_OSOAVIAKhIM

1934 - Death of Horace Meek Hickam, American aviator and pioneer airpower advocate, killed in the crash of his Curtiss A-12 Shrike while practicing night landings on an unlighted strip.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Meek_Hickam

1937 - 1st flight of The Renard R-36, Belgian all-metal fighter prototype single seat aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renard_R-36

1938 - 3 Vickers Wellesleys under command of S/L R. Kellett takes off from ismailia, Egypt to Darwin, Australia for new world distance record on a non-stop flight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Wellesley#Operational_history

1947 - 1st flight of the Scottish Aviation Pioneer, British 5 seat high wing STOL aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Aviation_Pioneer

1948 - Birth of Robert Joseph Cenker, American engineer and aerospace systems consultant who flew aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-61-C as Payload Specialist for RCA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Cenker

1954 - 1st conversion to horizontal flight of The Convair XFY Pogo, American experimental vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, tailsitter with delta wings and three-bladed contra-rotating propellers powered by a turboprop engine. It was intended to be a high-performance fighter aircraft capable of operating from small warships.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY

1956 - Operation Musketeer: key points in the Canal Zone are seized by Anglo-French airborne forces as a preliminary to a major seaborne assault with the aim of gaining control of the Suez Canal.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/british-military-aviation/1956.aspx

1959 - 1st flight of the Fouga CM-171 'Makalu', Franch twin seat twin engiend jet trainer prototype, reengined version with an enlarged airframe of the CM-170 Fouga Magister.

http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9243

1961 - Birth of Charles Owen "Scorch" Hobaugh, USCM pilot and NASA astronaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_O._Hobaugh

1961 - Birth of Alan Goodwin "Dex" Poindexter, US navy test pilot and NASA astronaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_G._Poindexter

1962 - Birth of Benjamin Alvin Drew, USAF test pilot and NASA astronaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Drew

1964 - 1st flight of The Hughes XV-9 (Hughes Model 385), American high-speed research helicopter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_XV-9

1964 - Launch of Mariner 3, NASA spacecraft designed to carry out flybys of Mars, but the shroud encasing the spacecraft atop its rocket failed to open properly, and Mariner 3 did not get to Mars. Unable to collect the Sun's energy for power from its solar panels, the probe soon died when its batteries ran out and is now in solar orbit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_3

1967 - Launch of ATS-3, American communications technology satellite. Operating from 1967 to 2011 is has been at one time reputed to be the oldest active satellite in existence.

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/ats3.htm - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATS-3

1967 - Death of Carl Brown Squier, WWI aviation pioneer and vice president of Lockheed Corporation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_B._Squier

1969 - Death of Carl Wilhelm Brunolf Baade, German engineer and aircraft designer who designed the 1st German jet passenger airliner.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunolf_Baade

1978 - Death of Marie Charles Maurice Lecoq De Kerland, French WWI flying ace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Lecoq_De_Kerland - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/france/lecoq.php

1980 - Death of Sydney Leo George "Poppy" Pope, Irish WWI flying ace and WWII high ranking officer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Pope - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/ireland/pope.php

1981 - 1st flight of The full scaled McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) AV-8B Harrier II, second-generation vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) ground-attack aircraft, Anglo-American development of the British Hawker Siddeley Harrier and final member of the Harrier family.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_II

1995 - STS-73, Space Shuttle Columbia mission, 2nd mission for the United States Microgravity Laboratory, is back on earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-73

2007 – China's 1st lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_1#Mission

2009 - Death of William Ecker, US navy pilot, most famous for having led the 1st low-level reconnaissance flight over Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ecker

2010 - Jahangir Siddiqui Air Beechcraft 1900C-1, having problems with an engine, crashed near Karachi, Pakistan, killing all 21 aboard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Karachi_Beechcraft_1900_crash