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Hello Folks, another seven dead and buried already. Ya know, I’ve been posting here for around two years now, and I have absolutely no idea if anyone is reading these posts, let alone liking them and coming back each week to read them. I’m, of course, hoping that’s the case, but…. On the Website Message Board i moderate, there is an option which shows how many times a post has been opened and (hopefully) read. Now in that case knowing is not always a good thing. I do four or so daily posts and sometimes when I check it’s kinda disappointing. Especially like today we had a Museum News post that had 74 visits in a few hours, whereas, with my posts, I’m lucky to get 20 in a few days. I guess that shows what Folks are really looking for. One piece of news was that the Museum has expressed an interest in obtaining a B-23 Dragon from here: http://courtesyaircraft.com/ . I will, of course, be keeping an eye on this. I recently learned how to post photos on the Message Board (MB) from E-mail attachments and photo CDs. I still have one more to go. From my digital camera. I was in sort of a Catch-22 situation (in my mind): I wasn’t gonna take any pictures until I learned how to upload and post them, and I wasn’t going to learn how to upload and post them until I learned the other two ways. Well, now it appears I have no choice. Stay tuned, this should be interesting. There is one glitch of course. I cannot convert a straight graphic file attachment to a .jpg file. When I right-click the photo and hit “Save as,” I get an error message stating “System cannot find the file specified.” I’m told this should not happen and I have no idea how to fix it. I have to bother someone to do it for me and then, no problem. BAH! It’s always somethin’ with these darn computers! Well, let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?

Have an AB FAN week,
Take Care and Be Safe,
Tom K.;)

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

17 November 1915
The German Zeppelin LZ52 (L18) accidentally burns at Tondem.

18 November 1915
German Navy Schutte-Lanz airship SL6 (D1) explodes in the air, killing all of its crew.

20 November 1916
The Uruguayan Escuela Militar de Aeoronautica is founded.

18 November 1917
United States Navy Tellier flying-boats based at Le Croisac in France commence operations.

20 November 1917
The opening of the Battle of Cambrai. During the battle German Schutzstaffeln (escort squadrons) reconstituted as Schlachstaffeln (battle squadrons) attack Allied positions.

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

20-21 November 1923
Lieutenant Commander T.G.W. Settle and Major C.L. Fordney, two United States Marine Corps (USMC) officers, establish a new balloon altitude record at Akron in Ohio. They ascend to 18,665 meters (61,237 feet).

22 November 1935
Captain Edwin C. Musick, senior captain of Pan American World Airways, inaugurates its first transpacific airmail service using Martin M130 flying boats.

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

18 November 1949
A C-74 Globemaster I of the United States Air Force (USAF) Military Air Transport Service (MATS) lands at Marham in Norfolk after a non-stop flight from the United States. It carries a total of 103 passengers and crew, which is a record at the time for people crossing the North Atlantic in a single flight.

19 November 1952
Captain J. Slade Nash establishes a new world speed record in a F-86D Sabre jet, averaging 698 mph with four runs over 3 kilometers.

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

20 November 1953
A speed of 1,327 mph is achieved by Scott Crossfield in a Douglas D558-2 Skyrocket aircraft, dropped from a Boeing B-29 Superfortress at 32,000 feet.

23 November 1954
It is announced that thirteen Americans have been sentenced to imprisonment for spying in China.

19 November 1956
The Moroccan Air Force is formed.

22 November 1961
Lieutenant Colonel R.B. Robinson establishes new world speed record in a McDonnell F-4H-1F Phantom II of 2,585 kph (1,606 mph).

17 November 1969
The United States/Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) begin in Helsinki, Finland.

17 November 1970
A lunar vehicle, the Russian Lunokhod I, lands on Sea of Rains.

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

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

23 November 1987
It is revealed that of the 128 new airlines certified after the 1978 industry deregulation in the United States, only 37 are still operating.

18 November - 5 December 1994
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) air strikes against Serbian air bases and missile sites to prevent attacks on Bosnian forces and NATO aircraft.

18 November 2002
American Airlines and British Airways announce plans to code-share some transatlantic flights, but the partnership is heavily restricted by US regulators.
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That’s it for this week Folks. See ya in seven.

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