NOV07
1824 - Jules-Francois Dupuis-Delcourt, french physician and aeronaut, makes an ascent from the castle of Montjean to Choisy-le-roi, A 20 Km flight, with a 5 Balloons gondola, (1 big surrounded by 4 smaller ones).
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8414537b.r=jardins.langFR -
1836 - Charles Green ascended the 'Great Nassau' balloon from Vauxhall Gardens for an attempt to cross the channel and fly to Weilburg in Nassau, Germany.
1884 - Birth of Maurizio Ramassotto, Early italian aviator, and race car driver.
1889 - Birth of Andrew Cameron Kiddie, South African WWI fighter ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Kiddie - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/safrica/kiddie.php
1894 - Birth of Carlo Adamoli, Italian engineer, aircraft designer, raid Pilot, test pilot and WWII pilot.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Adamoli - http://www.adamoli.org/carlo/index.html
1894 - Birth of Lewis Isaac Collins, Scottish WWI flying ace (Observer/gunner)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Collins_(RAF_officer) - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/scotland/collins1.php
1896 - Birth of Charles Gray Catto, American WWI flying ace.
1898 - Birth of Vadim Borisovic Šavrov, Soviet Aviation historian and aircraft designer
1910 - 1st flight of the Todd Biplane, designed by the 1st woman in the world to design airplanes, Mrs Emma Lilian Todd, with Didier Masson at controls, over the Garden City aviation field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Lilian_Todd#The_Airplane - http://earlyaviators.com/etodd2.htm
1910 - 1st known commercial air cargo. Philip Orin Parmelee flew in a Wright Model B biplane two bolts of dress silk 65 miles (105 km) from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio for the Morehouse-Martens Department Store, which paid a $5,000 fee. he made the flight in an hour and six minutes with the cargo strapped in the passenger's seat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Brothers#In_business - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Orin_Parmelee
1912 - Birth of Alexander Adolphus Dumfries Henshaw MBE, British air racer and test pilot for Vickers Armstrong in WWII.
1914 - Birth of Jesús Antonio Villamor, Filipino WWII fighter pilot and intelligence officer.
1915 - Gilbert Stuart Martin Insall, on patrol in a Vickers F.B.5 'Gunbus' with 1st Class Air Mechanic T. H. Donald, engaged an Aviatik two-seater and forced the German pilot to make a rough landing in a plowed field. This action earned him the Victoria Cross.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Stuart_Martin_Insall
1916 – Imperial German Army Zeppelin LZ90, (LZ60), broke loose while being moved into a hangar at Wittmundehaven.
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=881
1918 - Death of Bentfield Charles Hucks, British aviation pioneer, 1st Briton to perform a loop in an aircraft, also credited with the Hucks starter (auxiliary power unit, almost always a motortruck, that provides initial power to start up piston aircraft engines).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentfield_Hucks
1918 - Death of Claud Harry Stokes, British WWI flying ace, last ace killed before the war's end, shot down by anti-aircraft fire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claud_Stokes - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/stokes.php
1925 - Death of René Hanriot, French Racing Driver, early aviation pioneer and aircraft designer.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Hanriot
1936 – Polish Lotnictwo Wojskowe PZL.30 Zubr ("Bison") prototype, a twin-engine bomber prototype, disintegrates in mid-air when wing structure fails.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL.30_%C5%BBubr#Design_and_development
1938 - 2 of the 3 Vickers Wellesleys under command of S/L R. Kellett lands in Darwin, Australia coming from Islmailia, Egypt, setting a new world distance record of 7,158 miles (11,520 km) on a non-stop flight. One landed in West Timor, 500 mi (800 km) short of the final objective.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Wellesley#Operational_history
1941 - German torpedo-carrying He 111 aircrafts sinks soviet transport ship 'Armenia' while she was evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff from several of Crimea’s hospitals. It is estimated that between 5,000 and 7,000 people died in the sinking, including up to 2,000 unregistered passengers on board despite the fact that there were red crosses painted on both sides.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia_(ship)
1942 - Death of Theodor "theo" Jakob Croneiss, German WWI flying ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Croneiss - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/croneiss.php
1943 - A de Havilland Mosquito FB XVIII of No.248 Squadron, RAF Coastal Command, piloted by Flying Officer A.J.L. Bonnett of the RCAF makes the 1st attack on a U-boat using a 6-pounder (57mm) Molins gun. Bonnett fires eight rounds at the U-123 and achieves several hits on the submarine's conning tower and hull
1945 - 1st official air speed record by a jet aircraft of 606 mph (975 km/h) is set by H.J. (Willy) Wilson with a Gloster Meteor Mk4 at Herne Bay in Kent, UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Meteor#Record_setting - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_airspeed_record
1947 - Rhulin Albert Thomas complete the 1st solo coast-to-coast flight across the USA by a deaf pilot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Aviation/Historical_anniversaries/October_in_aviation/October_26
1950 - 1st flight of the Salmson D-57 'Phryganet', French 2 seat high wing monoplane.
http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=1055 - http://www.aviastar.org/manufacturers/0536.html
1954 - A solo non-stop flight from new York to Toussus-le-Noble airport near Paris is completed by Maximilien 'Max' Conrad in a twin-engined Piper Apache.
1956 - Braathens SAFE de Havilland DH-114 Heron 2B crashed into the mountain Hummelfjell in Tolga, Norway after heavy icing, combined with a downdraft killing 2 over 12.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummelfjell_Accident
1962 - 1st flight of The SIPA S.251 Antilope, French low-wing prototype monoplane, 4/5 seats turboprop engine powered, which setted a number of class records but was not put into production.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPA_Antilope - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=967
1963 - Death of Joseph Marie Xavier de Sevin, French WWI flying ace and WWII high ranking officer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_M._X._de_S%C3%A9vin - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/de_sevin.php
1966 - 1st flight of The Pilatus B4-PC11 (PC-11 in the Pilatus numbering sequence), Swiss all-metal intermediate sailplane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilatus_PC-11
1974 - Concorde 001 performed the fastest civil flight across the North Atlantic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Testing
1976 - 1st flight of The Dassault Falcon 50, French-built super mid-sized, long-range corporate jet, featuring a three jet engine layout with an S-duct central engine issued from the Dassault Falcon 20.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Falcon_50 - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=2511
1983 - Death of Alexander Augustus Norman Dudley "Jerry" Pentland, Australian WWI fighter ace, early RAAF officer, Airliner pilot and founder, Air racer who also served in WWII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pentland - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/australi/pentland.php
1996 - ADC Airlines Flight 86 Boeing 727-231 went down near Ejirin, Nigeria when the pilots lost control after taking evasive action to avoid a midair collision. 144 people were killed in crash
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADC_Airlines_Flight_86
1996 - Launch of Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), NASA spacecraft, designed to look for evidence of water on Mars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Global_Surveyor
1998 - Space shuttle Discovery (STS-95) is back on earth with John Glenn, 77 years old, oldest man in space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-95
2001 - Final day of operations for Sabena, national airline of Belgium. Flight 690 from Abidjan to Brussels via Cotonou was the last Sabena flight to land in Brussels. An Airbus A340-300 registered as OO-SCZ operated the flight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabena#1995.E2.80.932001
2007 - A Romanian IAR-330 Puma SOCAT attack helicopter belonging to the 90th Airlift Base crashed in Ungheni, near Pitesti, Arges County durin a night training mission, killing all 3 including Commander Nicolae Bucur, who was one of the most experienced pilots of the Romanian Air Force
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Air_Force#2007_Romanian_Air_Force_IAR-330_SOCAT_crash - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoAF_90th_Airlift_Base
2007 - STS-120, space shuttle Discovery mission to the International Space Station (ISS), is back on earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-120
2009 - Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet Tupolev Tu-142 crashes in the Tatar Strait some 12 miles (19 km) off Sakhalin Island during a training flight. All eleven crew are missing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-142#Notable_accidents