JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. –
Oct. 31, 1976 - The first U.S. Air Force E-3A airborne warning and control system aircraft, with its full complement of surveillance and command and control avionics, made its first test flight.
Nov. 1, 1954 - The U.S. Air Force retired the B-29 Superfortress from service. The aircraft had less than 12 years in the active inventory.
Nov. 2, 1962 - After Communist Chinese forces invaded India's Assam Valley and Ladakh District in October, India asked the U.S. for help during Operation Long Skip. Through Nov. 14, Military Air Transport Service dispatched 48 C-135 missions to deliver nearly 1,035 tons of equipment, small arms and ammunition to Calcutta. The timely response led the Chinese to withdraw.
Nov. 3, 1963 - Four Airmen at the Brooks Air Force Base School of Aerospace Medicine began the longest known experiment of exposing humans to 100 percent oxygen. The test lasted for 30 days at a simulated 27,500-foot altitude.
Nov. 4, 1950 - In the Korean War, B-26s provided close support for the Eighth Army near Chongju, killing an estimated 500 enemy soldiers to relieve the hard-pressed U.S. troops.
Nov. 5, 1944 - B-29s attacked Singapore in its first bombing since the Japanese captured it in February 1942.
Nov. 6, 1969 - A 34,000-cubic foot balloon, twice as tall as the Washington Monument and the largest balloon ever launched, lifted a 13,800-pound payload over Holloman Air Force Base, N.M.