NOV16

1920 - Birth of Jean Boulet, French test pilot and helicopter record breaker.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Boulet

1925 - Alan Cobham takes off in a De Havilland D.H.50J for a 25,749km flight from Croydon to Cape Town and back.

http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/havilland_dh-50.php

1928 - Western Canada Airways established the Prairie Air Mail Route, an experimental air mail service operated for 20 days.

http://canadianaviationhistory.pbworks.com/w/page/13801123/On%20this%20day%20in%20Canadian%20Aviation%20History%20November

1928 - 1st Antartic flight is made by Hubert Wilkins with a Fokker.

http://www.antarcticaonline.com/history/history.htm

1935 - 1st flight of the Bloch MB-300 "Pacifique" (a.k.a. La Grosse Julie), French all-metal three-engine monoplane airliner prototype.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloch_MB.300_Pacifique - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=1869

1937 - Sabena OO-AUB Junkers Ju 52 hit a factory chimney while circling to land at Stene Airport, Belgium, killing all on board. The flight was bringing Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus of Hesse and his family for a wedding. abd famous glider pilot and WWI pilot Arthur Martens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabena_OO-AUB_Ostend_crash - http://www.frontflieger.de/3-m-f.html

1937 - Flight Officer A.E. Clouston and Mrs Betty Kirby-Green lands in Cape town coming from london with the de havilland DH.88 comet 'The Burberry' after a 7091 miles flight in 45 hrs 6 min.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_DH.88#Grosvenor_House

1946 - 1st flight of The Saab 90 Scandia, swedish twin-engined, short- to medium-haul passenger aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_90_Scandia

1947 - 1st flight of the MDG LD.26 'Midgy Club', French twin seat cabin biplane tourer.

http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9835

1950 - Birth of Carl Joseph Meade, USAF test pilot and NASA astronaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_J._Meade

1952 - A USAF Convair B-36H "Peacemaker" dropped 'Ivy King' as part of operation Ivy,largest pure fission nuclear bomb ever tested by the USA, over a point 2,000 feet (610 m) north of Runit Island in the Enewetak atoll, resulting in a 500 kiloton explosion at 1,480 feet (450 m).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_King - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_King

1953 - 1st trans-canada flight is made by a CF-100 Canuck aircraft from RCAF 445 Squadron.

http://canadianaviationhistory.pbworks.com/w/page/13801123/On%20this%20day%20in%20Canadian%20Aviation%20History%20November

1959 - 1st flight of The Canadair CL-44 (CC-106 yukon), Canadian turboprop airliner and cargo aircraft based on the Bristol Britannia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CC-106_Yukon

1959 - National Airlines Flight 967 Douglas DC-7B disappeared over the Gulf of Mexico en route from Tampa, Florida to New Orleans, Louisiana. All 42 onboard were presumed killed in the accident.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airlines_Flight_967

1959 - Captain Joseph W. Kittinger Jr makes a balloon ascent, gaining an altitude of 23,285 metres (76,400 feet) in an open gondola. He parachutes to the ground, recording a free-fall of 19,505 metres (64,000 feet)

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

1965 - Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, that will be the 1st spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_3

1969 - Death of Helmut Zborowski (Graf Helmut Philip Georg Alexander Rudo Zborowski), Austrian aviation and rocket engine designer.

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

1970 - 1st flight of The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, commonly referred to as the L-1011 (pronounced "ell-ten-eleven") or TriStar, American medium-to-long range, widebody passenger trijet airliner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-1011_TriStar

1973 – NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab_4

1979 - 1st flight of The PZL W-3 Sokól, Polish medium-size, twin-engine, multipurpose helicopter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_W-3_Sok%C3%B3%C5%82

1982 - STS-5, Space shuttle Columbia is back on earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-5

1984 - STS-51-A, Space Shuttle Discovery mission, 1st time a shuttle deployed 2 communications satellites, is back on earth with 2 other communications satellites retrieved from orbit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-A

1996 - Launch of Mars 96 (sometimes called Mars 8) , Soviet space probe to mars, which failed due to a failure of the launcher Proton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_96

1996 - 1st flight of The VisionAire VA-10 Vantage, American prototype single-engined light business-jet

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

2002 - Death of Carl Bode, German engineer and helicopter test pilot.

http://www.heli-archive.ch/en/people/pilots/bode-carl/

2002 - Kenneth Horatio Wallis, 89 years old, sets a speed record of 207.7 km/h (129.1 mph) for autogyro - and simultaneously set another world record as the oldest pilot to set a world record.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogyro#World_records

2004 - NASA's X-43, unmanned experimental hypersonic aircraft, sets a new speed record of 12,144 km/h (7,546 mph), or Mach 9.8.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-43

2009 - Launch of STS-129, Space shuttle Atlantis mission to the ISS, 1st flight of an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-129 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExPRESS_Logistics_Carrier

2010 - Death of Jack M. Riley Jr., American pioneer in aviation and founder of RAM Aircraft, LP.

http://www.aviationpros.com/press_release/10392391/aviation-pioneer-and-founder-of-ram-aircraft-has-passed