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This Week In Military/Aviation History 28 – 31 December
December 27, 2009 11:13 pmHello Folks, the magic seven have passed and like usual here I am. Christmas has passed also and a brand new year is just around the corner. I hope you Folks got what you wanted from jolly ol’ St. Nick. I got a nice WWI flight sim to spend the new year with. This time next year I hope to be an experienced pilot who can fly over “No-man’s land” without getting his butt shot out of the sky in a heartbeat. We’ll see, won’t we? On behalf of the 1941 Historical Aircraft Museum and myself, may you all have a safe and Happy New Year. In the meantime shall we delve into some serious history? Yes, I think we shall.
Tom K. 
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31 December 1908
One of the Wright brothers, Wilbur Wright, wins the Michelin prize with a flight of 124 kilometers (77 miles) at Camp d’Auvours in France. The flight lasts 2 hours 20 minutes 23 seconds.
31 December 1910
John Moisant is killed when his aeroplane crashes at New Orleans.
28 December 1913
The first flight at an altitude of over 20,000 feet is made by Georges Legagneux, flying at 6,120 meters (20,079 feet) in his Nieuport Type IIN at St Raphael in France.
29 December 1913
The first flight from France to Egypt is completed after a month by Frenchman Jules Vedrines in a Blériot monoplane.
28 December 1916
Zeppelins LZ53 (L17) and LZ69 (L24) are destroyed in a fire at their shed at Tondem. In a separate incident Schutte-Lanz SL12 (E5) is also wrecked.
29 December 1916
In Russia, Zeppelin LZ84 (L38) makes a forced landing.
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This Week In Military/Aviation History 21 – 27 December
December 20, 2009 11:41 pmWell Folks, here I am again. You know how many are gone to allow this. Geez, this will be the last post fully in December. Next week starts the new year. It’s been about 4 years I’ve been doing this. You haveta be pretty tired of me about now. Well, file that under T for TOO BAD! 
I have no plans to stop. I’ve missed a few weeks this year due to circumstances beyond my control and hopefully next year will be more stable. We’ll see. In the meantime allow me on behalf of myself and the Historical Aircraft Group Museum to wish you and yours a very safe and Merry Christmas. So, shall we move on to some serious history? Yes, I think we shall.
Tom K.
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23 December 1907
The United States Army makes a request for tenders after the first specification for a military aeroplane is issued for commercial tender.
21 December 1915
Claudius Dornier attempts to flight test the giant German Zeppelin-Lindau RsI hydroplane on Lake Constance in Germany, but it fails to reach enough speed to take-off.
22 December 1917
Peace negotiations begin between Bolshevik Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk.
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This Week In Military/Aviation History 14 – 20 December
December 13, 2009 11:01 pmGeez Folks, seven more in the bag and here we are again. I never know what I’m going to say when I sit down and start typing this intro. That’s why they’ve been so short. So for another time I’ll keep it that way. Be glad, I tend to babble when I get revved up. Pretty soon another whole year will be gone. Hard to believe huh? History marches on whether we like it or not. Speaking of history, let’s get into some shall we? Yes, I think we shall. (nice segue, eh?)
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14 December 1903
Wilbur Wright attempts, and fails to achieve, the first sustained flight in ‘Flyer’. The aircraft is slightly damaged.
17 December 1903
At 1035hrs at Kill Devil Hills in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright pilots the Wright Flyer on a 36.5 meter (120 feet) flight lasting 12 seconds.
16 December 1914
Two United States Army lieutenants demonstrate two-way radio between ground and air using a Burgess-Wright aeroplane.
20 December 1916
The United States Army Balloon School is founded.
17 December 1917
German Navy Oberleutnant Christiansen, flying a Brandenburg W12 seaplane, shoots down the British non-rigid airship C27.
17 December 1918
The Aero Club of America lifts its ban on flying over cities, allowing pilots certified as ‘expert’ aviators to overfly populated areas. Post Office pilots had been permitted to do this since August.
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This Week In Military/Aviation History 7 – 13 December
December 6, 2009 10:53 pmWell Folks, here we are again. Seven more down and not that many left until the end of the year. My computer is humming along nicely now and I don’t see any problems cropping up soon. I added some more virus watch and cleanup programs just in case. Seems now it takes me longer to run them than I have patience for. Oh well. Time to get down to some serious history, which I do have patience for, so shall we? Yes, I think we shall.
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8 December 1903
A second attempt to launch Langley’s ‘Aerodrome’, once again piloted by Charles M. Manly, fails when the rear wing fouls the launcher and the ‘Aerodrome’ falls into the river. With this accident, official American support for the project is withdrawn.
10 December 1910
Romanian Henri Coanda makes a brief flight in the world’s first jet-powered aeroplane. It is powered by a 37kW (50 horse-power) Clerget piston engine driving a centrifugal air compressor.
12 December 1912
The first ejector seat, developed by Baron d’Odkolek, is tested at Issy-les-Moulineaux in France, when a dummy wearing the parachute is ejected by a small cannon from a flying aeroplane.
9 December 1914
German Leutnant Oswald Boelke receives a Fokker A1 reconnaissance monoplane.
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This Week In Military/Aviation History 30 November – 6 December
November 29, 2009 10:52 pmHi Folks, well, I’m back. Did ya miss me? Did you notice I was gone? Seems I had some personal stuff coupled with some computer issues and before I knew it, the month is now over and we’re deep into the “Holiday” (aka Christmas) season. Ho Ho Hopefully things won’t be so messed up for the rest of the year. Since I’ve been gone for so long, why don’t we try once again to get down to some serious history, shall we? Yes, I think we shall.
Tom K.
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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.
5 December 1909
Florence Taylor became the world’s first woman glider (sailplane) pilot when she flew her husband’s home-built aircraft at Narrabeen Beach in New South Wales, Australia.
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This Week In Military/Aviation History 2 – 8 November
November 1, 2009 10:39 pmHoly…… Another seven whooshed by. I hope your Halloween was quiet, with nothing going bump in the night. Now we have to prepare for Thanksgiving and put up with Christmas stuff and snow shovels being put out in the stores, if they hasn’t been already. To take our minds off of that for a while let’s get down to some serious history, shall we? Yes, I think we shall.
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7 November 1910
The world’s first freight-carrying flight occurs when Philip O. Palmalee pilots a Wright Model B biplane, transporting silk from Dayton to Columbus in Ohio, for the Morehouse-Martens Company.
4 November1913
French engineer Constantin patents a vented wing. The blade placed before the leading edge of the wing improves airflow.
6 November 1915
The first aeroplane to be catapult-launched from an moving ship is a Curtiss AB2 flying-boat piloted by Lieutenant Commander Henry Mustin, launched from the battleship USS North Carolina at Pensacola Bay in Florida.
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This Week In Military/Aviation History 26 October – 1 November
October 25, 2009 10:37 pmDamn Folks, that was a quick seven. I had to run like heck to keep up with it. Seems I got here just in time to get down to some serious history with you, so, shall we? Yes, I think we shall.
Tom K.:)
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26 October 1907
Henry Farman sets the official distance record of 771 meters (2,530 feet) in a Voisin-Farman I.
26 October 1909
2nd Lieutenant Frederic E. Humphreys of the United States Army becomes the first pilot officer to fly solo, at College Park in Maryland, with a flight lasting 3 minutes in a Wright biplane.
27 October 1909
Mrs Ralph H. van Deman becomes the first American woman passenger in an aeroplane when she is taken aloft by Wilbur Wright.
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This Week In Military/Aviation History 19 – 25 October
October 18, 2009 9:41 pmWell Folks, seven more gone. Let’s gather ’round to keep warm and get down to some history, shall we? Yes we shall.
Tom K.
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23 October 1906
Alberto Santos-Dumont wins the 3,000 franc Archdeacon Prize, flying his 14-bis biplane for nearly 60 meters (197 feet).
22 October 1909
Mademoiselle Elise Deroche, better known under her self awarded title ‘la Baronne de Laroche’, makes her first solo flight. She learnt to fly at Châlons in a Voisin biplane.
22 October 1910
The Aéronautique Militaire is formed from the French Service Aéronautique.
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This Week In Military/Aviation History 12 – 18 October
October 11, 2009 10:24 pmZZZZZIIIINNNNGGGG!!!! That was the sound of seven days flying by. Ya know its strange, it seems like only a week ago………it was a week ago. While I ponder this, let’s get down to some serious history, shall we? Yes. I think we shall.
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14 October 1905
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the world’s air sports federation, is founded in France. It is a non-governmental, non-profit making international organisation with the basic aim of furthering aeronautical and astronautical activities worldwide.
16 October 1905
The Wright brothers complete their current series of test flights. They will not fly again until May 1908.
12-13 October 1907
A.F. Gaudron and two crew members make the first crossing of the North Sea by air in the Mammoth balloon. They travel from Crystal Palace in London to Lake Vänern in Sweden.
16 October 1909
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin forms Delag (Die Deutsche Luftschiffahrt Aktiengesellschaft), the world’s first commercial airline company. Between 1910 and 1913 the company will carry 34,000 passengers.
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This Week In Military/Aviation History 28 September – 4 October
September 27, 2009 10:01 pmWell Folks another seven in the books, and what do I have to show for it? Nut ‘n Honey. Oh well, one of these days I’ll get around to doin’ what I plan to, but in the meantime, let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?
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30 September 1906
The first international balloon race starts from Les Tuileries in Paris and is won by Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm of the United States Army.
Lahm flies his balloon ‘United States’ a distance of 637 kilometers (402 miles) to Fylingdales Moor in North Yorkshire, England.
29 September 1907
The Bréguet-Richet helicopter lifts off but has to be steadied by ground crew using poles.
October 1910
Romanian Henri Coanda exhibits a propellerless biplane. It fails.
The first fighter aircraft, a Voisin biplane fitted with a machine gun, is exhibited at the Paris Aero Show.
2 October 1910
The first officially recorded mid-air collision between two aeroplanes occurs in Milan. An Antoinette piloted by Rene Thomas strikes a Henry Farman biplane piloted by Englishman Captain Bertram Dickson. Both pilots survived.
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