JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. –
Oct. 10, 1928 - Capts. St. Clair Street, pilot, and Albert W. Stevens, observer and photographer, set an unofficial world altitude record of 37,854 feet for planes carrying more than one person in flight from Wright Field, Ohio.
Oct. 11, 1910 - Former President Theodore Roosevelt became the first president to fly in an aircraft when he flew as a passenger with Archibald Hoxsey in a Wright biplane at St. Louis.
Oct. 12, 1977 - The first class of five U.S. Air Force women navigators graduated, with three of the five assigned to Military Airlift Command aircrews.
Oct. 13, 1915 - Lt. T. J. Koenig won the Liberty Engine Builder's Trophy Race in a Lepere-Liberty 400 with a speed of 128.8 mph over a 257.7-mile course at the National Airplane races at Selfridge Field, Mich.
Oct. 14, 1970 - Typhoon Joan swept over the central Philippines, killing over 500 people. Pacific Air Forces airlift forces moved 751,200 pounds of cargo and 453 passengers in 80 sorties.
Oct. 15, 1970 - From Ubon Royal Thai Air Base, Thailand, the 13th Bomb Squadron flew its first night interdiction combat mission in Vietnam with the Tropic Moon B-57G aircraft.
Oct. 16, 1957 - The U.S. Air Force launched artificial meteors that exceeded 33,000 mph, some 8,000 mph faster than the velocity needed to escape earth. Carried by an Aerobee rocket to a height of 35 miles, the nose cone then rose to 54 miles where shaped charges blasted the pellets into space.