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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.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/world-aviation/1936.aspx

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.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/world-aviation/1965.aspx

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft_(2000%E2%80%93present)#2003

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-126