NOV15
1885 - Birth of Sir Frederick Handley Page, English industrialist who was a pioneer in the design and manufacture of aircraft, founder of Handley Page Limited.
1894 - Birth of William Hargrove Chisam, British WWI flying ace
1894 - Birth of Hilbert Leigh Bair, American WWI flying ace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_Bair - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/bair.php
1895 - Birth of William Thomas Price, British WWI flying ace.
1896 - Birth of Giovanni "Giannino" Ancillotto, italian WWI flying ace
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giannino_Ancillotto - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/italy/ancillotto.php
1899 - Stanley Edward Spencer, Early british Aeronaut, ascended with John Mackenzie Bacon and Gertrude Bacon to observe the Leonid meteor shower from above the clouds. Ten hours later, their balloon landed near Neath, South Wales, narrowly missing drifting out over the Atlantic.
1906 - Birth of Curtis Emerson "Old Iron Pants", "Bombs Away" LeMay, USAF general credited with designing and implementing an effective, but also controversial, systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of WWII
1908 - 1st flight of the DUNNE D.4, Early british biplane.
1916 - 1st flight of The Boeing Model 2 , American two-place training seaplane, 1st "all-Boeing" design and the company's 1st financial success.
1917 - Death of Gerolamo "Gino" Lisa, Italian WWI pilot, during a bombing mission.
1917 - Death of Hans Hoyer, German WWI flying ace, killed in action in his Albatros D.V.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Hoyer - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/hoyer.php
1917 - Death of Hans Ritter von Adam, German WWI fighter ace, killed in action in his Albatros D.V.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Ritter_von_Adam - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/adam.php
1917 - Death of Richard Runge, German WWI flying ace, killed in action in his Albatros D.V
http://theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/runge.php
1917 - 1st flight of the SPAD S-XIV, French biplane seaplane fighter aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPAD_S.XIV - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=144
1921 - 1st flight in the US of the italian semi-rigid airship 'Roma' purchased by the USA.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_(dirigibile)
1924 - Death of Artur de Sacadura Freire Cabral, known simply as Sacadura Cabral, Portuguese aviation pioneer, he disappeared while flying over the English Channel, along with his co-pilot, Mechanical Corporal José Correia, due to fog and his shortening eyesight (which never kept him from flying).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_de_Sacadura_Cabral
1926 - Thomas Neville Stack and Bernard More Troughton Shute Leete leave Croydon, England in an attempt to reach India by air in 2 de Havilland DH.60.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Neville_Stack#England_to_India
1926 - Grosse Ile Airport, Inc. is incorporated into Detroit Aircraft to own and operate an airport on Grosse Ile, an island in the Detroit River. The airport covers 403 acres (1.63 km2) of land and has water approaches on three sides. Contains a circular landing field. 3.000 feet (0.914 m) in diameter, and an airship hangar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Aircraft_Corporation#Subsidiaries
1929 - 1st flight of the Dyle et Bacalan DB-70, large three engine French airliner prototype with a thick airfoil centre section which accommodated the passengers. Two fuselages, part of the centre section at the front but distinct further aft, carried the empennage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyle_et_Bacalan_DB-70 - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=4965
1929 - 1st flight of The McDonnell Doodlebug, American 2 tandemseat low wing light prototype aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Doodlebug
1932 - 1st flight of The Hall XP2H-1, American prototype four-engined biplane flying boat, largest four engine biplane aircraft ever procured by the US Navy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_XP2H-1
1936 - The German Legion Condor, formed to counter the increasing numbers of Soviet aircraft on the Republican side, begins operations in Spain.
1943 - 1st prototype Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender is destroyed while testing stall's performances
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss-Wright_XP-55_Ascender
1945 - 1st flight of The PZL S-1, Polish high wing trainer and liaison aircraft, 2nd aircraft built in Poland after WWII.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_S-1
1947 - Death of Eduard Ritter von Schleich, German WWI fighter ace, Airliner pilot, he was given control of the Hitler Youth flying programmes and promoted to general just before WWII.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Ritter_von_Schleich - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/schleich.php
1947 - Death of Frank Wilbur "Spig" Wead, US Navy aviator and raid pilot, screenwriter who promoted US Naval aviation from its inception through WWII.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wead
1949 - 1st flight of the Breguet Br 891R, French Twin-engined military freighter variant prototype of the cargo and passenger transport Breguet 890 Mercure.
http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9834
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.
http://www.boeing.com/history/chronology/chron08.html
1957 - 1st flight of The Tupolev Tu-114 Rossiya (NATO reporting name Cleat), soviet turboprop-powered long-range airliner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-114
1957 - Aquila Airways Short Solent 3 'City of Sydney' crashed into a disused chalk pit adjacent to heavily forested downland During an attempt to return after number 4 propeller had been feathered and the stoppage of the No.3 engine (Both on the same side), killing 45 over 58.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_Aquila_Airways_Solent_crash
1959 - Birth of Timothy John "TJ" Creamer, NASA astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Creamer
1964 - Bonanza Air Lines Flight 114 Fairchild F-27 crashed into the top of a hill in open desert country about 10 miles (16 km) SSW of Las Vegas during a landing approach in poor weather conditions killing all 29. An investigation years later showed that the Jeppesen chart was marked in a non-standard, and possibly confusing, manner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonanza_Air_Lines_Flight_114
1965 - 1st flight of the Piasecki 16H-1A Pathfinder II, American Experimental high-speed compound helicopter, larger version of the 1st prototype.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_16H
1965 - 1st circumnavigation of the world, over-flying both poles, is made by a Flying Tiger Line Boeing 707.
1966 - Pan Am Flight 708 Boeing 727-21 crashes on approach less than 10 miles west-southwest of Tegel Airport in Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_708
1966 - Gemini 12 (officially Gemini XII), NASA manned spaceflight, is back on earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_12
1967 - Death of Michael James 'Mike' Adams, USAF test pilot, when his X-15 broke up in the air. Only fatality with a X-15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Adams#Death - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-15_Flight_3-65-97
1968 – The US Air Force launches Operation Commando Hunt, a large-scale bombing campaign against the Ho Chi Minh trail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Commando_Hunt#1968
1971 - Launch of SSS-A (S-Cubed A), NASA Explorer mission #45 for Magnetospheric research.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_program
1972 - Death of Edgar James Kingston McCloughry, Australian WWI fighter ace and balloon buster, post WWI Engineer who served in the RAF in WWII until 1953.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_McCloughry - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/australi/mccloughry.php
1973 - 1st (powered) flight of the Martin Marietta X-24B, experimental US aircraft to test lifting body concepts, experimenting with the concept of unpowered reentry and landing, later used by the Space Shuttle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Marietta_X-24B
1974 - Death of Hermann Vallendor, German WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Vallendor - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/vallendor.php
1974 - Launch of INTASAT, 1st spanish artificial satellite
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intasat
1978 - Icelandic Airlines LL 001 Douglas DC-8 crashed on approach just short of the runway at the international airport of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Killing 183 over 249.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Airlines_Flight_LL_001
1980 - Launch of SBS-1, (Satellite Business System) private professional satellite communications,.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Business_Systems
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Airlines_Flight_1713
1988 - 1st flight (and only one) of the Buran spacecraft, Soviet orbital vehicle analogous in function and design to the US Space Shuttle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)
1990 - Launch of STS-38, Space shuttle Atlantis mission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-38
1992 - Aerocaribbean Ilyushin IL-18D flew into the 2500-ft high Pico Isabel de Torres On approach to Puerto Plata-La Union International Airport killing all 34.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19921115-0&lang=en
2000 – A ASA Pesada chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20001115-0
2003 - 2 United States Army Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters collide near Mosul, Iraq. Twenty-two soldiers were on both aircraft and 17 were killed.
2008 - Launch of STS-126, Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour to deliver equipment and supplies to the station, to service the Solar Alpha Rotary Joints (SARJ), and repair the problem in the starboard SARJ that had limited its use since STS-120.