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1914 - A Royal Flying Corps (RFC) detachment, drawn from officers of the Indian Central Flying School, and equipped with 3 Maurice Farman aircraft, arrives in Alexandria from UK to support Indian Army units guarding the Suez Canal.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/history-of-aviation-timeline/interactive-aviation-timeline/britismh-ilitary-aviation/1914.aspx

1914 - Birth of Erich "Schmidtchen" Schmidt, German WWII fighter ace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Schmidt_(pilot) - http://www.luftwaffe.cz/schmidt.html

1915 - German Zeppelin LZ52 (L18) accidentally burns at Tondem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Zeppelins#Zeppelins_constructed_during_World_War_I

1916 - Death of Sidney Edward Cowan, Irish WWI flying ace, killed in the crash of his D.H.2 following a mid-air collision with another British aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Cowan - http://theaerodrome.com/aces/ireland/cowan.php

1926 - Mario de Bernardi breaks his 4-day old world speed record, reaching 416.618 km/h (258.875 mph) over a circuit of 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) in the same Macchi M.39 at Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA.

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

1927 - Alan Cobham sets out from Rochester, England, in a Short Singapore to make an aerial survey of Africa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Singapore#Design_and_development

1934 - Fred C. Nelson wins the Mitchell Trophy Race in a Boeing P-26A "Peashooter" at an average speed of 216.832 mph at Selfridge Field, Michigan.

http://www.mtclib.org/local%20history/mitchell%20trophy.pdf

http://books.google.fr/books?id=pM2sRXPgGhsC&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=Fred+C.+Nelson+mitchell+trophy+race&source=bl&ots=Q_pLgLsqcJ&sig=VLWA84yWkSElHKvE3Qs-wq_uKpY&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=KnCaUID4A6bO0QWvsYCYCg&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Fred%20C.%20Nelson%20mitchell%20trophy%20race&f=false

1937 - 1st flight of The VEF Irbitis I-14, Latvian single seat fighter trainer prototype.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/VEF_Irbitis_I-14

1940 - 12 Hawker Hurricane fighters and 2 Blackburn Skua dive bombers prompted a premature take-off from HMS Argus to reinforce Malta due to the presence of the Italian Fleet during operation White. Combined with bad weather only 5 of them reached Malta.

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

1941 - Death of Ernst Udet, WWI german flying Ace, Aerobatic pilot and test pilot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Udet - http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/udet.php

1943 - 1st flight of The General Motors P-75 Eagle (Fisher P-75), American fighter aircraft that used the most powerful liquid-cooled engine then available, the Allison V-3420 driving co-axial contra-rotating propellers, and components from existing aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_P-75_Eagle

1944 - Birth of John-David Francis Bartoe, American astrophysicist and NASA Astronaut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John-David_F._Bartoe

1947 - 1st flight of the SNCAN Nord 1700 'Norélic', French experimental twin seat helicopter.

http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=9337

1947 - 1st flight of The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, American military transport aircraft developed from the Fairchild C-82 Packet, designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized equipment, and to drop cargo and troops by parachute.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_C-119_Flying_Boxcar

1952 - 1st flight of The Max Holste MH.1521 Broussard, French six-seat utility high-wing single engine monoplane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Holste_Broussard - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=6744

1955 - USAF Douglas MC-54M carrying scientific and technical personnel from the Lockheed "Skunk Works" in Burbank to the secret Area 51, where they were working on the U-2 plane is blown off course by a severe storm front and while lost in the clouds, an error in the assumed position of the aircraft in relation to the Spring Mountain range resulted in the crash a mere 50 feet below the crest of an 11,300-foot ridge leading to the peak of Mount Charleston, killing all 14.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19551117-1

1955 - Peninsular Air Transport Douglas C-54-DO Crashed in a residential area following takeoff from Seattle-Boeing Field, killing 28 over 74

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19551117-0

1956 - 1st flight of The Dassault Mirage III, French supersonic fighter aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Mirage_III - http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=4143

1957 – Vickers 802 Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Vickers_Viscount#1950s

1958 - 1st flight of the SNCAN Nord 2504 'Noratlas', Re-engined version prototype of the french military transport aircraft intended for antisubmarine warfare training role

http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=5543

1958 - Death of George Benson Anderson, Canadian WWI flying ace

http://theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/anderson1.php

1966 - Death of James "Jabby" Jabara, American WWII and Korean War fighter ace, 1st American jet ace in history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jabara - http://cieldegloire.fr/014_jabara_j.php

1970 – Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1, 1st of two soviet unmanned lunar rovers, lands on the moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1

1975 - Launch of Soyuz 20, Soviet long-duration unmanned spacecraft test to check improved on-board systems of the spacecraft under various flight conditions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_20

1985 - Death of Chow Ting-Fong, Chinese Sino-Japanese War flying ace.

http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/china_ting-fong.htm

1986 - 1st flight of The Mil Mi-34 'Hermit', Soviet 2-4 seats light utility and traing helicopter.

http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/mi-34.php

1997 - ValuJet Airlines, American low-cost carrier, cease operations.

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

2006 - Linda Mary Corbould becomes the 1st woman to command a RAAF flying squadron.

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

2011 - Shenzhou 8, Chinese unmanned spacecraft which docked with the Tiangong 1 space module, is back on earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_8

2013 - Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 Boeing 737-53A crashed on landing while making its second approach in High winds and cloudy conditions at Kazan International Airport, killing all 50

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatarstan_Airlines_Flight_363