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November 12

• 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.

• 1922 - Japan's first airmail service commences, linking Sakai, Osaka and Tokushima.

• 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.