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Hello Folks, yep, it’s been another week already. Seven days, just like that. I enjoy our visits, but the time seems to fly between them. Well, the Christmas Blitz is in full force already. Actually it has been going on for a while already. It started for me when I saw an advertisement for the Rockette’s Christmas DVD and a couple of wreaths at Wegman’s, our local grocery chain. This was followed up by the entire Seasonal area turning Christmas really fast, and when you walk in the alcove to enter the store you are surrounded by artificial Christmas trees of all shapes and sizes. The TV commercials are now showing a lot of Christmas suggestions. Macy’s is advertising a Thanksgiving Sale, BUT, the people are wearing Santa hats and “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” is playing in the background. (DUH!) Even one of our local radio stations is playing Christmas Music this weekend. I’m not surprised because the same station actually did a Christmas (or Holiday Weekend) a couple of months ago! Whatever happened to the days when we could enjoy Thanksgiving BEFORE getting hit by the Christmas Blitz? Oh well, let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?
Have an AB FAN (ABsolutely FANtastic) week,
Take Care and Be Safe,
Tom K.

30 November 1905
The launch of Zeppelin LZ2 from it’s Lake Constance base results in significant damage before it can fly.

30 November 1907
Glenn Curtiss forms the first aeroplane company in the United States.

26 November 1911
Charles Weymann pilots the Nieuport monoplane to win the military aviation trials at Reims in France.

27 November 1912
The United States Army Signal Corps receives it’s first flying boat, a Curtiss F two-seat biplane.

28 November 1912
The Italian Flotta Aerea d’Italia (Air Fleet of Italy) is formed as an autonomous aviation service.

27 November 1916
Zeppelin LZ78 (L34) is shot down off Hartlepool in England.

28 November 1916
Zeppelin LZ61 (L21) is shot down off Lowestoft in England by defending fighter aircraft.

Bombs are dropped near Victoria Station by an LVG CII aircraft, piloted by Deck Offizier R. Brandt.

27 November 1917
Brigadier-General B.D. Foulois succeeds Brigadier-General William L. Kenly as Chief of Air Service of the American Expeditionary Force.

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

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

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

30 November 1922
The first aircraft carrier to be designed and completed as such makes its maiden sea trials. The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Hosho was laid down in December 1919 and could carry 21 aircraft.

28-29 November 1929
Floyd Bennett, Commander Byrd, Bernt Balchen, Ashley McKinley and Harold June make the first flight over the South Pole, flying a Ford 4-AT Triplane.

28-30 November 1938
Flug Captain Henke and Flug Captain Moreau fly Focke Wulf Fw 200 D-ACON ‘Brandenburg’ from Berlin to Tokyo. With three refueling stops the journey is completed in 46 hours 15 minutes.

30 November 1939
Soviet Union invades Finland and Soviet planes bomb Helsinki and other Finnish towns.

25 November 1942
Luftwaffe supply flights into the Stalingrad pocket begin.

25 November 1943
Lockheed P-38 Lightnings, North American B-25 Mitchells and North American P-51 Mustangs of the 14th United States Army Air Force (USAAF) make their first attack on Formosa from their bases in China.

24 November 1944
88 Boeing B-29 Superfortresses of the 21st United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Bomber Command make the first major bombing attack on Tokyo from the Mariana Islands.

29 November 1945
The first air-sea rescue by helicopter takes place when seamen are rescued from an oil barge by a Sikorsky R-5 at Long Island Sound.

29 November 1953
The Douglas DC-7 enters scheduled airline service with American Airlines.

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

26 November 1955
It is announced in Moscow that tests of new types of nuclear thermonuclear weapons have recently been made.

27 November 1955
A state of emergency is declared in Cyprus.

29 November 1963
President Johnson issues an executive order which renames Cape Canaveral as Cape Kennedy and its space facilities as the John F. Kennedy Space Center.

26 November 1965
The French use a Diamant launch vehicle to send Asterix 1, a test satellite into space. France becomes the first nation after the Americans and Russians to develop and orbit a satellite by their own efforts.

29 November 1973
The 1,000th Boeing 727 rolls off the production line.

29 November 1979
Another McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crash raises doubts about the airliner’s safety. The Air New Zealand DC-10 left Auckland at 0810hrs on the 28 November for a routine sight-seeing flight over the Antarctic. The aircraft crashed into a mountainside, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crewmembers.

25-26 November 1981
Hot-air balloon ‘Semiramis’, piloted by Frenchmen Hélène Dorigny and Michel Arnould, who set a new hot-air balloon distance record of 1,154 kilometers (717 miles).

27 November 1996
A hundred British Aerospace (BAe) Hawks are ordered by the Australian Government as the next Lead-In Fighter Trainer.

24 November 1998
Twelve Automated Transfer Vehicles are 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 RJ100 crashes on approach to Zurich Kloten airport, a month after the introduction of new noise abatement procedures have forced a different approach route to the airport. 21 of the 28 passengers and 3 crew members are killed.

26 November 2003
The last “retirement” Concorde flight takes place.
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That’s it for this week Folks. See ya in seven.

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