Scandinavian Airlines was founded as a consortium of the flag carriers of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
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Harriet Quimby became the first American woman to receive an airplane pilot's license, although that meant something significantly different at the time as the government did not issue them and you did not require one to fly an airplane.
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Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, May 30, 1946. First post war Indianapol...: The Indianapolis 500 was run for the first time since 1941. George Robson, took the race. Robson was killed in a racing accident that Septe...
The Indianapolis 500 was run for the first time since 1941. George Robson, took the race.
President Coolidge signed the Air Commerce Act providing for the licensing of pilots and commercial aircraft. He also signed the Railway Labor act abolishing the Railroad Labor Board.
The Air Commerce Act provided for an Aeronautics Branch within the U.S. Department of Commerce to implement and enforce regulations and is depicted as a story element in the film The Great Waldo Pepper. The film accurately portrays the role of the Aeronautics Branch in brining barnstorming to an end.
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The Strategic Air Command and the Tactical Air Command were created.
And so does TAC, which has been inactive since 1992, when it was merged into SAC.
I've been meaning to do a post on reorganization of the U.S. military, which the illegal war on Venezuela and King Donny's War shows to be a desperate need, but I haven't gotten around to it..
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The final adjudication of the cases of Japanese internees who had renounced their citizenship during World War Two concluded, resulting in the closure of Tule Lake War Relocation Center. The litigation reversed their loss of citizenship, but the Justice Department would reverse that. It would take until the 1960s for their citizenship to be restored.
Almost all of those who had renounced their citizenship had recanted, and for that matter not all of the renunciations were genuine.
There were two air disasters in the news:
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The Civil Aeronautics Bard granted a certificate to Bell Helicopter for the Bell 47 to be sold to civilians.
If you've seen M*A*S*H you've seen the Bell 47.
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United Airlines Flight 14, flying from Boise to Denver, crashed into Elk Mountain, Wyoming, killing all 21 persons on board.
The first commercial flight of the Concorde supersonic airliner took place with one departing Heathrow in British Airways colors and another departing Orly Airport in Paris in Air France colors. The British jet flew to Bahrain and the French one to Brazil.
The plane remained in service until 2003.
On the same day communist forces in Angola established the People's Air Force of Angola.
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The Junkers J 1 made its first flight. The aircraft was an experimental craft that was the first practical all metal aircraft. Only one was built.
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Eugene Burton Ely landed a Curtiss biplane on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania.
Michael Collins resigned from his employment in London at the Guaranty Trust Company n order to return to Ireland. He was already a clandestine Irish revolutionary.
Severe flooding caused dikes to burst at Zuiderzee, Netherlands.
The Royal Flying Corps ordered that reconnaissance planes have an escort of at least three fighters flying in close formation with them, and that a reconnaissance aircraft must abort its flight if even one of the three fighters becomes detached from the formation for any reason, due to highly losses from Fokker Eindeckers.
Deutsche Luft Hansa (DLH), the predecessor of Lufthansa, was formed.
It ceased operations in April, 1945, but it's personnel later reformed the company as Lufthansa in 1955.
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Headline in the CST:
Casper airport sees 10-year high for November flights
