Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/November in aviation
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- 1984 - British Airways and some other international airlines begin relief flights carrying food and supplies to Ethiopia.
- 1980 - British Airways terminates Concorde services to Bahrain and Singapore
- 1966 - Air Canada begins the first North American air services to the Soviet Union
- 1955 - United Airlines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6, is destroyed by a bomb planted by a man attempting to cash in his mother's life insurance policies. 58 people are killed
- 1924 - Lt Dixie Kiefer makes the first night catapult launch from a ship, the USS California.
- 1920 - the US Post Office awards a contract for international air mail to Aeromarine West Indies Airways.
- 1918 - the end of the First World War. The RAF suffered 16,623 casualties, while the German Air Service suffered in excess of 15,000.
- 1911 - 2nd Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of the Italian Air Flotilla drops several small bombs on Turkish troops during the Italo-Turkish War. This was the first time bombs had been dropped from an aeroplane in war.
- 1954 - the VTOL Convair XFY transitions from vertical to horizontal flight and back
- 1931 - US Marine Corps squadrons VS-15M and VS-14M embark on USS Lexington and USS Saratoga, the first time Marine Corps squadrons are assigned to aircraft carriers.
- 1922 - QANTAS begins its first scheduled flights, between Charleville, Queensland and Cloncurry, Queensland.
- 1986 - While attempting to land at Zahedan airport, an Iranian Hercules C-130 army transport plane crashes into a mountain; all 103 passengers are killed.
- 1944 - the first Japanese Fu-Go balloon bombs are launched against the United States.
- 1915 - Flt Sub-Lt Fowler makes the first take-off of an aircraft with a conventional, wheeled undercarriage from a ship when he flies a Bristol Scout C from HMS Vindex.
- 1909 - Alec Ogilvie patents the first airspeed indicator.
- 1982 - Pan Am inaugurates service from Los Angeles to Sydney; at 7,487 non-stop miles (11,979 km), it is the longest non-stop flight in the world.
- 1964 - First ever automatic blind landing by a passenger aircraft when a BOAC Hawker-Siddeley Trident landed in dense fog
- 1909 - John Moore-Brabazon makes the first live cargo flight by airplane when he puts a small pig in a waste-paper basket tied to a wing-strut of his airplane.
- 1894 - German meteorologist Berson climbs up with an airship to 9,155 m.
- 1938 - 5-7 - Non-stop flight by a pair of Vickers Wellesleys from Egypt to Darwin, Australia. This sets a new world distance record of 7,158 miles (11,520 km).
- 1921 - Curtiss test pilot Bert Acosta wins the Pulitzer Trophy in a Curtiss CR-2 and establishes a new closed-circuit airspeed record of 284.36 km/h (176.7 mph).
- 1911 - Calbraith Rodgers completes the first coast-to-coast airplane flight across the USA in the Vin Fiz Flyer - taking 49 days, with several crashes en-route.
- 2002 - National Airlines, already operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy, permanently ceases operations
- 1986 - a Boeing 234 crashes in the Shetland Isles, killing 45 people. It is history's worst helicopter disaster.
- 1915 - A Curtiss AB-2 piloted by Lt Cdr Henry Mustin is catapulted from the deck of USS North Carolina while the ship is underway.
- 1954 - Soviet Air Force MiG-15s shoot down a USAF B-29 Superfortress off Hokkaido, claiming it was spying.
- 1950 - BOAC retires its last flying boat airliner from service.
- 1945 – Gp Cpt H. J. Wilson sets a new official airspeed record of 606 mph (976 km/h) in a Gloster Meteor. Unofficial German speed records by the rocket-powered Messerschmitt Me 163 during the war had already exceeded 625 mph (1,000 km/h)
- 1836 - 7-8 - flight of a Montgolfière covering 722 km from London to Weilburg, passing through Green, Holland and Mason.
- 1950 - 1Lt Russell Brown shoots down a MiG-15 from his F-80 Shooting Star, the first victory by a jet over another jet.
- 1980 - Dan-Air registers the last commercial flight by a de Havilland Comet. The plane flew enthusiasts on a round-trip flight from London.
- 1946 - Joe Towle and Tony LeVier fly the enormous Lockheed Constitution on its first flight.
- 1904 - Wilbur Wright flies the Wright Flyer II a distance of 3 miles near Dayton, Ohio, the first flight of longer than five seconds.
- 1988 - the US Air Force publicly unveils the F-117 Nighthawk
- 1972 - Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
- 1970 - the British government agrees to fund development of the Rolls-Royce RB211 turbofan, rescuing the project from Rolls-Royce's bankruptcy
- 1940 - regular ferry flights of US-built warplanes commence across the Atlantic.
- 1940 - 11-12 - Fairey Swordfish from HMS Illustrious make a highly successful raid against Regia Marina ships at Taranto, damaging battleship Conte di Cavour beyond repair, and extensively damaging two others, Littorio and Caio Duilio (Battle of Taranto).
- 1935 - 11-13 - Jean Batten becomes the first woman to fly solo across the South Atlantic, taking 2 days 13 hours to cross from Senegal to Brazil in a Percivall Gull. She also breaks the speed record for this crossing, by a full day.
- 1922 - Etienne Oehmichen flies 525 m (1,722 ft) in a helicopter.
- 1989 - California Polytechnic State University flies the first human-powered helicopter
- 1980 - Delta Air Lines orders 60 Boeing 757s, the largest single order to this time for a single airliner type.
- 1919 - Keith and Ross Smith set out to fly a Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU, from England to Australia, the first flight between these two places. They arrive in Darwin on December 18.
- 1912 - A Curtiss Triad becomes the first aircraft to be launched by catapult, at the US Navy's Washington Navy Yard.
- 1903 - The Lebaudy brothers make a controlled dirigible flight of 54 km (34 miles) from Moisson to Paris.
- 1981 - Ben Abruzzo and crew make the first crossing of the Pacific Ocean by balloon, in the Double Eagle V
- 1944 - civil air services to London are restored, with the first flights carried out by Railway Air Services
- 1926 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Hampton Roads, USA. Won by Mario De Bernardi (Italy) in a Macchi M.39 at 396.698 km/h (246.5 mph).
- 1907 - first piloted free flight in a rotary-wing aircraft by Paul Cornu at Lisieux. This first flight lifted Cornu about 30 cm (1 ft) and lasted 20 seconds. Sometimes recognized as first impractical helicopter flight.
- 1940 - 14-15 - 437 Luftwaffe aircraft make a massed air raid on Coventry. 380 civilians are killed and some 800 wounded.
- 1932 - 14-18 - Amy Johnson breaks the UK-Cape Town speed record, shaving 11 hours off Mollison's record in March. She flies a de Havilland Puss Moth.
- 1919 - The American Railway Express Company hires a Handley Page V/1500 to carry 454 kg (1,000 lb) of parcels from New York to Chicago, but the attempt fails due to mechanical problems.
- 1910 - Eugene Ely takes off from a temporary platform erected over the bow of the light cruiser USS Birmingham, the first take-off from a ship.
- 1965 - a Boeing 707 makes the first polar circumnavigation of the world.
- 1926 - T. Neville Stack and B. S. Leete leave England in an attempt to reach India by air in a de Havilland DH.60. They will arrive in Karachi on January 8 1927.
- 1920 - QANTAS is formed at Longreach, Queensland.
- 1919 - Cpt Henry Wrigley and Lt Arthur Murphy make the first aerial crossing of Australia, flying a Royal Aircraft Factory BE.2e from Melbourne to Darwin, taking 46 hours
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- 1954 - a B-47 is forced by bad weather to remain aloft for 47 hours 35 minutes, needing nine aerial refuellings.
- 1927 - Sir Alan Cobham sets out from England in a Short Singapore to make an aerial survey of Africa.
- 2002 - American Airlines and British Airways announce plans to code-share some transatlantic flights, but the partnership is heavily restricted by US regulators.
- 1985 - Cessna is purchased by General Dynamics
- 1966 - Captain William J. Knight flies the North American X-15 to a record speed of Mach 6.33 (4,250 mph, 6,840 km/h)
- 1949 - a Douglas C-74 Loadmaster carries 103 passengers and crew over the North Atlantic, the largest number to have made the crossing in a single flight.
- 1932 - a national monument to the Wright Brothers is unveiled at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- 1922 - Malert (Magyar Legiforgalmi) is formed, a fore-runner of MALÉV Hungarian Airlines.
- 1912 - Italy's colonial air force is established as the Servizio d'Aviazione Coloniale.
- 1978 - the US Air Force orders development of the KC-10 Extender
- 1974 - Lufthansa flight 540 crashes and burns moments after takeoff, killing 59 people. It was the first major accident involving the Boeing 747.
- 1970 - the US Air Force and Army assault the Son Tay prison camp. No POWs are found.
- 1953 - Scott Crossfield flies the Douglas Skyrocket past Mach 2, the first flight to reach this speed. The world airspeed record is now set at 1,291 mph (2,078 km/h)
- 1989 - a British Airways Boeing 747 narrowly misses crashing into the Penta hotel near Heathrow Airport
- 1981 - Aeroflot is banned from flying to the United States, after an earlier Aeroflot flight that overflew American military installations, straying from its supposed flight path.
- 1970 - US aircraft begin the first major bombing campaign of North Vietnam since 1968. 300 aircraft attack the Mu Gia and Ban Gari passes.
- 1917 - 21-24 - the Zeppelin LZ59 makes a 6,757 km journey through Africa in 96 hours (average speed 71 km/h).
- 1914 - Three RNAS Avro 504s bomb the Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshafen.
- 1783 - in a flight lasting 25 minutes, de Rozier and d'Arlandes take the first untethered ride in a Montgolfière in Paris, the first human passengers carried in free flight by a hot-air balloon.
- 1935 - Pan Am commences the first trans-Pacific airmail service, flying a Martin M.130 from San Francisco to Manila, via Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, and Guam.
- 1985 - EgyptAir Flight 648 is hijacked after take-off from Athens, and comandeered to Cairo. The next day, Egyptian forces storm the plane that was hijacked, starting a gun battle with the hijackers. 60 people die in the cross-fire
- 1916 - British ace Lanoe Hawker VC is shot down by Manfred von Richthofen
- 1939 - BOAC is formed by the merger of Imperial Airways and the original British Airways.
- 1924 - a KLM Fokker F.VII makes the first flight from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies, taking 127 hours 16 minutes.
- 1961 - the US Navy's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise is commissioned.
- 1940 - First flight of the prototype de Havilland dh 98 Mosquito E-0234/W4050.
- 1987 - a DC-9 of Continental Airlines crashes in Denver, Colorado on take-off during a snowstorm. 26 die and 56 are injured.
- 1964 - Belgian paratroops are dropped into Congo by the US Air Force
- 1929 - 27-28 - Richard Byrd and crew make the first flight over the South Pole in a Ford Trimotor.
- 1956 - the Ryan X-13 Vertijet makes its first transition from vertical to horizontal flight
- 1942 - Australian pilot F/Sgt Ron Middleton earns a posthumous VC for valour in bringing his crew and crippled bomber home after a raid on Turin, Italy.
- 1938 - 28-30 - a Lufthansa Fw 200 makes the airline's first flight to Japan, flying non-stop from Berlin to Tokyo via Basra, Karachi, and Hanoi. The 14,228 km (8,841 mile) flight breaks the distance record and takes 46 hours 18 minutes.
- 1912 - The Italian Air Battalion is made a fully operational command, the (Flotta Aerea d'Italia).
- 1979 - an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes on the Mt Erebus volcano, killing all aboard.
- 1939 - Soviet air raids on Helsinki and Viipuri mark the outbreak of the Winter War.
- 1905 - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's LZ2 airship is damaged while attempting its first launch.
