Compilation of 30 October in Aerospace History: 30 Oct 2008 - Last flights from Berlin-Tempelhof airport: the last commercial flight was Cirrus Airlines Dornier 328 that departed at 22:17 30 Oct 2003 - Launch of SERVIS-1, Japanese satellite for testing performance of commercial off-the-shelf products in space environment 30 Oct 2002 - Launch of Soyuz TMA-1, Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) with a Russian-Belgian cosmonaut crew. 30 Oct 2000 - Launch of BeiDou-1A, first of a series of Chinese satellite navigation system. 30 Oct 1985 - Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. 30 Oct 1981 - Launch of Venera 13, Soviet space probe for the exploration of Venus. 30 Oct 1979 - Death of Barnes Neville Wallis, English scientist, engineer and inventor, best known for inventing the bouncing bomb 30 Oct 1967 - Kosmos 188, unmanned Soviet spacecraft and Osmos 186, made first fully automated space docking in history of space exploration 30 Oct 1964 - First flight Bell Aerosystems Lunar Landing Research Vehicle vertical take-off vehicle with jet engine mounted on gimbal 30 Oct 1961 - Andrei Durnovtsev, in Tupolev Tu-95V, drops Tsar Bomba, Soviet AN602 50 megaton hydrogen bomb over Mityushikha Bay 30 Oct 1957 - A Mil Mi-6 (NATO reporting name Hook), Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter, sets a record lifting 12,000kg to 2,432m. 30 Oct 1944 - First flight Short S.45 Seaford, British flying boat, development of Short Sunderland for longer ranged maritime patrol bomber 30 Oct 1942 - First flight MÁVAG Héja, Hungarian fighter aircraft based on the Italian Reggiane Re.2000. 30 Oct 1941 - First free flight Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri, German single-seat open cockpit intermeshing rotor helicopter (or synchropter). 30 Oct 1925 - A Fairey IIID became the first standard Fleet Air Arm seaplane to be catapulted from a ship at sea 30 Oct 1923 - Frenchman Joseph Sadi Lecointe sets altitude record of 11.145m (36,565 ft) with the Nieuport-Delage NiD-40R 30 Oct 1918 - The Great Wars heaviest day of air fighting begins : 130 claims with only 2 unconfirmed. 30 Oct 1909 - John Moore-Brabazon,in Short Brothers S.2, wins £1,000 prize from Daily Mail for first to cover a mile in British aeroplane. 30 Oct 1909 - Hans Grade wins the Lanz-Preis der Lüfte, German prize for aviation, with his Grade II Libelle. 30 Oct 1908 - Henri Farman makes first cross-country flight in Europe with a power-driven Voisin, from Châlons to Reims (27km in 20 minutes)
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