A Dutch guy makes these nice posts about what happened on this day (today in history) but then years back, I'll throw some in but I'll only translate some things
It's more for the photos.
October 18 1982
Simultaneous Concorde Landing Thrills Crowd At Orlando Airport
October 20 1948
The crash of KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation PH-TEN. A flight from Schiphol through Prestwick, Scotland to New York. It flew in bad weather into power lines and caught on fire.
October 20 1975
Three days after the release of their latest album Street Survivors and after a concert in Greenville, South Carolina the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd fly from Greenville to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The flight is operated by a Convair VC-300 (N55VM), built in 1948 and it is the third built CV-300.
The Convair suffers fuel shortage and the crew has to change route to McComb-Pike County Airport in Mississippi. However the plane crashes in wooded area. 20 people survived the crash however Ronnie van Zant, Steve Gaines and his sister, their assistent road manager and both pilots died on impact.
October 20 1986
A Tupolev Tu-134A-3 (C9-CAA) with President of Mozambique on board, Samora Machel along with 33 others who mostly are high placed government people crash in South-Africa, close to the border of Mozambique. Machel and the other 33 don't survive the crash, 9 passengers and one crew member do.
October 24 2003
The last flight of somewhat regular flight of the Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde. BA001 flew the day before as commercial flight to New York but the flight back, BA002, was no commercial flight but a special flight, VIP's were invited.
And to keep that theme going, some MD-11 pictures..
I don't really like the sound of it either, it's like an F-16 but ten times louder... 
