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Hello Folks, I’m back! Quite a week, eh? Seventh anniversary of 9/11, hurricanes hitting the coast. Everything else is back to normal though. Aren’t you getting tired of the candidates sniping at one another every freakin’ day? Now what’s gonna come to mind when you hear the word “Lipstick”? Sheesh. Then I read where the Folks who were getting hit with the hurricanes were being forced to pay about $4.89 for a gallon of gas as there might be a fuel shortage due to the storms. What’s wrong with THIS picture? Well, let’s move on to some serious history, shall we?
Have an AB FAN week,
Take Care and Be Safe,
Tom K.

20 September 1904
Wilbur Wright makes the first ever circuit flight in an aeroplane.

21 September 1908
Wilbur Wright makes first significant long distance flight by covering 66 kilometers (41 miles).

15 September 1911
Edouard Nieport dies after making an emergency landing during army maneuvers in the Ardennes in France.

17 September 1911
Calbraith P. Rodgers begins the first coast-to-coast flight across the USA, from New York to Pasadena, in a Burgess-Wright aeroplane. He completes the flight on 5 November.

19 September 1911
The first airmail service in Italy starts between Bologna, Venice and Rimini.

19 September 1912
Delag’s Zeppelin LZ13 ‘Hansa’ commences the world’s first international commercial passenger service, flying from Hamburg to Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmo in Sweden.

21 September 1913
The first sustained upside-down flight is made by Adolphe Pegoud in his Blériot monoplane.

15 September 1916
Austrian Lohner flying-boat sinks the French submarine Foucault.

16 September 1916
Zeppelins LZ31 (L6) and LZ36 (L9) are destroyed by fire in their shed at Fuhlsbuttel.

17 September 1916
The German Albatros DI fighter enters service on the Western Front.

Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen, flying an Albatros DII, is credited with his first combat victory, a British Royal Aircraft Factory FE2b of No.11 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps (RFC).

15 September 1917
Russia is declared a Republic by the Provisional Government under Kerensky.

17 September 1917
German Staaken RVI heavy bombers are used to attack Britain for the first time.

19 September 1919
Compagnie des Messageries Aériennes (CMA) begins its Paris to London passenger service with Breguet 14s.

18 September 1928
German airship LZ127 Graf Zeppelin is launched.

Don Juan de la Cierva flies from Croydon to Le Bourget in his C8L MkII autogyro, making the first cross-Channel flight in a rotary wing aircraft.

18 September 1931
Japan begins operations against China, which leads to the occupation of Manchuria by Japanese forces.

19 September 1935
Konstantin Tsiolkovski, the early Russian rocket pioneer dies.

16 September 1941
The Luftwaffe begins leaflet raids on Leningrad, threatening immediate destruction unless the city surrenders.

17-26 September 1944
In an attempt to secure bridges over the Maas, Waal and Lek, Allied paratroopers land at Arnhem, Eindhoven and Nijmegen. The operation is only a partial success as the British 1st Airborne Division is defeated at Arnhem. 2,200 survivors are evacuated but 7,000 are left dead or prisoners.

18 September 1947
The United States Air Force (USAF) is founded, and the new service becomes independent within a newly unified United States armed forces.

20 September 1951
Greece and Turkey become members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

The United States Air Force (USAF) make a successful recovery of animals launched into space. The monkey and 11 mice are recovered with apparently no ill-effects.

15 September 1956
The Tupolev Tu-104 turbo-jet powered airliner enters service with Aeroflot.

18 September 1959
The Douglas DC8 Srs10 enters United States domestic service.

16 September 1971
Three United States Air Force (USAF) aircraft complete the transport of food, medical supplies and fuel to victims of Hurricane Edith in Nicaragua.

18 September 1971
An Israeli Stratocruiser transport aircraft is shot down by an Egyptian anti-aircraft missile.

15 September 1978
Professor Willy Messerschmitt, designer of the famous Messerschmitt Bf109 fighter and other aircraft, dies.

19 September 1980
Iran and Iraq go to war with one another, with both sides making extensive use of air power.

15 September 1981
The 494th Tactical Fighter Squadron at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, becomes the first United States Air Force (USAF) squadron to be equipped with the Pave Tack munitions laser guidance system.

20 September 1981
The People’s Republic of China launches three satellites into orbit with a single-booster rocket, making this is the first multiple launch achieved by China.

15 September 1983
The Lockheed F-117A stealth fighter achieves operational status with the United States Air Force (USAF) 4450th Tactical Group.

19 September 1988
Israel launches its first satellite, the Offeq 1, using a Shavit booster rocket.

16 September 1992
Five hot air balloons set off from the USA to cross the Atlantic in the Chrysler Transatlantic Challenge balloon race. The Belgian team is the first to complete the crossing and the United States team establishes a new balloon duration record of 144 hours 16 minutes.
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That’s it for this week Folks. See ya in seven.

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