Hello Folks, yet another week has moved into history. The year is winding down and the Holiday season is winding up. This week will see Thanksgiving and “Black Friday,” the traditional start of the Christmas retail season. Stores will open when it’s still “oh-dark thirty” and will be staying open into all hours of the night. Santa has already arrived (by helicopter) in one of our local malls. Better make a list and check it twice because there will be expenses not normally thought of, like the cost of the gasoline to get you to all those stores. To get us in the mood, last weekend, one of our local stations started their Holiday “gift” of music. 38 days of “Holiday” (Christmas) music played 24/7. It’s gonna be interesting, methinks. When I first started this post I had a heck of a time trying to remember the days to look for. Not so anymore. I seem to have settled into it pretty well. I’d like to give thanks for all you Folks who take the time to read my ramblings and this history. I hope your Thanksgivings are enjoyable and your travels are easy and safe. Now, let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?

23 November 1910
Octave Chanute died aged 78, having played an important role in the advancement of aviation.

20 November 1916
The Uruguayan Escula Militar de Aeoronautica was formed.

20 November 1917
The opening of the Battle of Cambrai. During the battle, German Schutzstaffein (escort squadrons) were reconstituted as Schlachstaffein (battle squadrons) to attack Allied positions.

25 November 1918
The Italian airline, Posta Aerea Transadriatica, began regular mail flights from Venice.

24 November 1919
Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe, the great French promoter and sponsor of early aviation efforts , died aged 73 in Ecquivilly.

25 November 1920
Captain Corliss C. Moseley of the United States Army Air Service won the first Pulitzer Trophy Race, flying a Verville-Packard 600. The race took place at Mitchell Field, Long island, New York.

19 November 1932
A national monument in the United States was dedicated to Orville and Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina.

20-21 November 1933
Lieutenant Commander T.G.W. Settle and Major C.L. Fordney, two United States Marine Corps officers, established a new balloon altitude record at Akron in Ohio. They ascended to 61,237 feet.

22 November 1935
Captain Edwin C. Musick, senior captain of Pan American World Airways, inaugurated its first transpacific airmail service using Martin M-130 flying boats.

19 November 1942
A Soviet counter attack north of Stalingrad began and in just three weeks, supported by four Air Armies, the German troops fighting in the city were cut off from their colleagues and their fate was sealed.

25 November 1943
Lockheed P-38 Lightnings, North American B-25 Mitchells and North American P-51 Mustangs of the 14th USAAF made their first attack on Formosa from their bases in China.

24 November 1944
88 Boeing B-29 Superfortresses of the 21st USAAF Bomber Command made the first major bombing attack on Tokyo from the Mariana Islands.

19 November 1952
Captain J. Slade established a new world speed record in an F-86D Sabre jet, averaging 698 m.p.h. with four runs over 3 kilometers.

19-20 November 1952
Arlid Viking of Scandinavian Air Lines System’s DC-6B flew from Los Angeles to Copenhagen in 28 hours 7 minutes.

20 November 1953
A speed of 1,327 m.p.h. was achieved by Scott Crossfield in a Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket aircraft, dropped from a Boeing B-29 Superfortress at 32,000 feet.

23 November 1954
It was announced that thirteen American had been sentenced to imprisonment for spying in China.

25 November 1954
Malev was established as the Hungarian state airline.

19 November 1956
The Moroccan air force was formed.

22 November 1961
Lieutenant Colonel R.B. Robinson established a new world speed record of 1,606 m.p.h. in a McDonnell F-4H-1F Phantom II of 1,606 m.p.h.

20 November 1963
The U.S. Air Force accepted the first two F-4C jet fighters.

22 November 1977
After numerous legal challenges against noise pollution, Air France and British Airways were finally able to operate a regular Concorde service to New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport.

25-26 November 1981
Hot-air balloon “Semiramis,” piloted by Frenchmen Helene Dorigny and Michael Arnould, set a new hot-air balloon distance record of 717 miles.

20 November 1984
Briton Julian Nott set altitude, distance and duration wold records for the pressurized balloon class.

22 November 1987
It was revealed that of 128 new airlines certified after the 1978 industry deregulation in the united States, only 37 were still operating.

24 November 1998
Twelve Automated Transfer Vehicles were ordered by the European Space Agency and will be used to take components of the International Space Station into space.

24 November 2001
A Crossair BAe Systems Rj-100 crashed on approach to Zurich Kloten airport, a month after the introduction of new noise abatement procedures had forced a different approach route to the airport. 21 of 28 passengers and 3 crew members were killed.
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That’s it for this week, Folks. See you in seven.

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