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19351201: A consortium of airline companies organized and manned the first airway traffic control center at Newark, N.J. It provided information to airline pilots on the whereabouts of planes other than their own in the Newark vicinity during weather conditions requiring instrument flying. Two additional centers, similarly organized and staffed, opened several months later: Chicago in April 1936, Cleveland in June 1936. (See July 6, 1936, and November 12-14, 1935.)
19411201: President Roosevelt ordered the creation of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) as a division of the Office of Civilian Defense. In 1943 the President transferred the CAP to the War Department as an auxiliary of the Army Air Forces.
19411201: Beginning on this date, all U.S. pilots and aircraft using the nation’s airspace were required to be Federally certificated.

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19281130: Fred E. Weick, an aerodynamicist at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, described in National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Technical Note No. 301 the testing of long-chord cowling that significantly reduced drag, the retarding force acting on an airplane moving in air. Unlike conventional cowlings of that period, which covered the crankcase and the lower portion of the cylinders, the NACA cowl totally enclosed the engine. In actual flight tests, a Curtiss AT-5A trainer equipped with NACA’s cowling increased its maximum speed from 118 to 137 mph–the equivalent of providing the aircraft with 83 additional horsepower without an added expenditure in fuel. The NACA cowl had a very positive effect on airline economics when its appeared on the modern transports of the early 1930s.
19291130: As a result of increased activities, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics Clarence Young reorganized the Aeronautics Branch.

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19291129: Richard E. Byrd, with pilot Bernt Balchen and two other crew members, became the first to fly over the South Pole, operating a Ford Trimotor from the U.S. base at Little America. Earlier, on May 9, 1926, Byrd and Floyd Bennett had made a flight credited as the first over the North Pole, in a Fokker F.VII.
19351129: Pan American Airway’s China Clipper made the first transpacific airmail flight from San Francisco to Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, and Manila. (See October 21, 1936.)
19661129: The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) board of directors adopted an article to its constitution and by-laws providing that all future turbine-powered transports (excluding ‘stretch’ models of the turbine-powered, twin-engine aircraft presently certificated) be manned by a minimum crew of three pilots.

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19441128: CAA submitted to Congress a National Airport Plan proposing Federal and state support for airport improvements needed for a forecast increase in civil aviation. The plan was based on cooperative studies that the agency had carried out with local governmental or private interests seeking assistance in postwar airport planning. Its publication helped to stimulate the introduction of congressional bills on airport development. (See May 13, 1946).
19801128: FAA published a rule requiring foreign operators of aircraft over 75,000 lb. serving the U.S. to comply with the same noise standards as U.S. operators (see December 23, 1976). The rule generally required final compliance by 1985.

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19681127: FAA formally established an Office of Aviation Economics and an Office of Aviation Policy and Plans under the Associate Administrator for Plans. At the same time, the Office of Noise Abatement was transferred to the Associate Administrator for Plans from the Associate Administrator for Operations. (See July 21, 1967, August 28, 1967, and December 22, 1970.)
19681127: An FAA circular outlined modifications to airport terminal facilities to assist physically disabled persons traveling by air. Areas requiring improvement included: vehicular loading areas, parking areas, doors, stairways, elevators, escalators, toilet facilities, drinking fountains, telephones, signs, and signals.

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19571126: The board of directors of the Air Transport Association passed a resolution favoring the creation of an independent Federal agency to make safety rules and develop a common civil-military system of airspace control and use.
19691126: The Beech Aircraft Corporation delivered its last Model 18 aircraft. The original Model 18 first flew on January 15, 1937, and was type-certificated on March 4, 1937. When production of the plane ceased, the Model 18 had been in continuous production longer than any other aircraft.

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19471125: CAB published a regulatory amendment permitting CAA to use a Technical Standard Order (TSO) system to facilitate aircraft production. After consultation with industry, CAA would publish TSOs setting specifications for aviation appliances, materials, parts, and processes. Manufacturers need no longer receive CAA type certification for items covered by TSOs. Instead, the manufacturers themselves could certify that their product met the TSO specifications. (See January 15, 1946, and September 29, 1950.)
19491125: CAA’s Administrator enunciated the “single runway policy” covering the use of Federal matching funds in the Federal-aid airport program. In substance, the new policy stated additional runways that provided only wind coverage or conveniences without increasing traffic capacity were not of sufficient value to justify the cost of construction. (See January 9, 1947.)

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19331124: The Aeronautics Branch announced an airport development program to be undertaken in cooperation with the Civil Works Administration. Since one purpose of the program was to provide work immediately to the unemployed, the Branch urged municipalities wishing to acquire landing fields to apply within the next two weeks. (See April 15, 1934.)
19711124: The first in a series of hijackings involving extortion occurred when a passenger on a flight from Portland to Seattle successfully demanded $200,000 and four parachutes, then parachuted from the rear stairway of the Boeing 727. The hijacker–who used the name Dan Cooper, but became known as D.B. Cooper in the press–was never found. (In February 1980, however, tattered bills from his loot were discovered along the Columbia River in Washington.) Another incident involving a demand for ransom and parachutes occurred on December 24, 1971, and 17 more extortion attempts on U.S. air carriers were made during the next 6 months. (See March 7-9, 1972.)

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19461123: The Martin 2-0-2 made its first flight. On August 13, 1947, CAA type-certificated the aircraft, a two-engine transport designed for the short-haul passenger market. The airplane entered service a year later with Northwest Airlines. The Martin was the first airliner to operate on postwar passenger routes that had not seen service during World War II.
19591123: The Strategic Air Command began using seven special air routes established for its use by FAA to carry out day and night, all-weather, low-altitude training missions. The routes for Operation Oil Burner, code name for these SAC radar bomb runs over simulated targets throughout the country, were laid out to avoid congested population and airport centers to the maximum extent possible.
19591123: The Boeing 720 first flew. On June 30, 1960, FAA certificated the 720, a four-engine medium-range jet transport with a maximum capacity of 140 passengers.

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19461122: CAA Administator Wright and CAB Chairman James M. Landis established a CAA-CAB Committee, a six-man group created to facilitate coordination between the two bodies.
19481122: The Wright brothers’ Kitty Hawk airplane, the Flyer I, arrived at the Smithsonian Institution after 20 years in the South Kensington Museum, London.
19591122: An extensive reorganization of FAA’s Bureau of Research and Development became effective. In place of the six previous divisions plus the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center (NAFEC) at Atlantic City, N.J., the new structure embodied ten divisions consisting of the following five staff and five program divisions, respectively: Plans, Operations, Contracts, Budget, and Administrative Services; Research, Test and Experimentation, Systems Engineering, Air Defense Integration, and Development.