Compilation of Today in Aerospace History: 18 Nov 2009 – Virgin America commences service between their San Francisco (SFO) hub and Fort Lauderdale (FLL), as well as LAX-FLL. 18 Nov 2005 - First flight Airbus A340-600 HGW, European long-range widebody four engine jet airliner. 18 Nov 2002 – American Airlines & British Airways announce plans to code-share some transatlantic flights, but heavily restricted by US regulators 18 Nov 1989 - Launch of The COsmic Background Explorer (COBE), also referred to as Explorer 66, NASA satellite dedicated to cosmology. 18 Nov 1985 - Hermanos Serdán International Airport (IATA: PBC, ICAO: MMPB), located near Puebla, alternate airport for Mexico City, opens. 18 Nov 1985 - First Space Shuttle, Enterprise, flown to Washington atop Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft & transferred to Smithsonian 18 Nov 1985 - Cessna is purchased by General Dynamics 18 Nov 1980 - Judith Chisholm takes off from England with her Cessna Turbo Centurion for a round the world solo flight 18 Nov 1978 - First flight McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet (CF-188), RCAF Jet fighter aircraft, based on US McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet 18 Nov 1967 - First flight Dassault Mirage G, French two-seat twin-engined variable-geometry prototype fighter, first v-g of European design 18 Nov 1966 - William J. Knight flies the North American X-15 to a record speed of Mach 6.33 (4,250 mph, 6,840 km/h) 18 Nov 1965 - Flying Tiger Line Boeing 707 flies around the world overflying both Poles in 62hr & 27 min (51hr 27 min flying time) 26,230mi 18 Nov 1964 - First flight Grumman C-2 Greyhound, US twin-engine, high-wing cargo aircraft, designed to carry to and from aircraft carriers 18 Nov 1961 - Launch of Ranger 2, flight test of NASA Ranger spacecraft system designed for future lunar and interplanetary missions 18 Nov 1955 - First powered flight Bell X-2, American research aircraft built to investigate flight characteristics in the Mach 2-3 range. 18 Nov 1952 - James Slade Nash, flying a North American F-86D Sabre, set an FAI speed of 698.505 mph at Salton Sea, California. 18 Nov 1949 - C74 Globemaster I of the USAF MATS lands at Marham after a non-stop flight across Atlantic with record 103 passengers and crew 18 Nov 1944 - First flight Mitsubishi Ki-83, Japanese experimental twin engine long-range heavy fighter. 18 Nov 1942 - First flight Tachikawa Ki-77, Japanese very long-range experimental low-wing cabin monoplane with twin piston engines. 18 Nov 1939 - First German magnetic anti-ship mines are dropped in British coastal waters. 18 Nov 1939 - First flight Loire-Nieuport LN.402, French-built dive bomber aircraft prototype, evolution of the LN.401. 18 Nov 1937 - First flight Potez 661, French 4-engined metal low-wing monoplane airliner prototype. 18 Nov 1932 - Amy Johnson lands her de Havilland Puss Moth Desert Cloud in Cape Town, coming from England, a new solo flight record 18 Nov 1930 - First flight Boeing XP-9 (Model 96), first monoplane fighter aircraft prototype produced by Boeing 18 Nov 1923 - First aerial refuelling-related fatality: fuel hose entangled in right wings of aircraft causing crash Pilot of refueller died 18 Nov 1922 - First flight Dewoitine D.1, French single-seat high wing monoplane fighter aircraft. 18 Nov 1917 - First mission using a Tellier T.3 by US Navy, used as an anti-submarine patrol aircraft, was flown at NAS Le Croisic, France. 18 Nov 1913 - Lincoln Beachey performs the first loop in the USA over North Island, San Diego, California. 18 Nov 1911 - First British seaplane to leave the water, & first seaplane to take off from British waters, is Avro Type D at Cavendish Dock 18 Nov 1907 - The Tatin monoplane, early French monoplane aircraft flew 50 metres.
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