1910 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1910:
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[edit] Events
- First night flights.
- Races between aeroplanes and cars are only won by racing cars.
- Hugo Junkers gets a patent for his thick wing/all-wing type aeroplane.
[edit] January
- First International Air Races in America. Held at Los Angeles.
- January 4, Leon Delagrange is killed at Pau after wings on Bleriot collapse.
- January 7, Frenchman Hubert Latham is the first pilot to climb to 1000 metres.
[edit] March
- March 8 - Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman in the world to receive a pilot's licence.
- March 10 - Emil Aubrun makes the first night flights, in a Blériot Type IX at Villalugano, Argentina.
- March 13 - Paul Engelhard makes the first flight in Switzerland, flying a Wright biplane from a frozen lake at St Moritz
- March 14 - Louis Paulhan flies 146 km in a straight route from Orleans to Trois.
- March 28 - Henri Fabre makes the first flights in a seaplane at Matigues, France
[edit] April
- The French Air Force is formed as its own command, with a total of five aircraft.
[edit] June
- June 2 - Charles Rolls makes the first successful return flight over the English Channel
- June 17 - Romanian engineer and inventor Aurel Vlaicu flies his first airplane, Vlaicu I
[edit] July
- July 5 - Bert Pither is reputed to have flown the first metal-framed aircraft at Riverton, New Zealand
- July 9, Frenchman Léon Morane sets a new speed record of 106 km/h.
- July 12 - Charles Rolls is killed in a crash at Bournemouth, becoming the first British aviation fatality
[edit] August
- August 27 Frederick Baldwin and John McCurdy, using a Curtiss biplane, are the first pilots to send radio messages to the ground.
[edit] September
- September 6 - Blanche Stuart Scott makes the first solo airplane flight by a woman in the United States subsequently recognized by the Early Birds of Aviation.
- September 16 - Bessica Raiche makes the first solo airplane flight by a woman in the United States to be accredited at the time by the Aeronautical Society of America.
- September 23 - the Peruvian Geo Chavez flies the Blériot-monoplane over the Alps from Brig (Switzerland) to Domodossola (Italy) reaching a height of 2200 metres, but was killed in a crash landing.
[edit] October
- Romanian inventor Henri Coandă (1886-1972), built the first thermojet prototype, named the Coandă-1910; he exhibited it at the International Aeronautic Salon in Paris, and tested it at the airport in Issy-les-Moulineaux.
- October 2 - the first mid-air collision takes place near Milan. Both pilots survive, but one is badly injured.
- October 11 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first man who served as U.S. President to fly in an airplane (term ended in 1909).
- October 14 first confirmed flight over Norway by Carl Cederström.
[edit] November
- November 4 - Welshman Ernest Willows makes the first airship crossing from England to France with Willows No. 3 City of Cardiff.
- November 14 - Eugene Ely takes off from a temporary platform erected over the bow of the light cruiser USS Birmingham, the first take-off from a ship.
[edit] December
- 16 December - Henri Coandă's plane was the first jet to fly when unexpectedly was airborne when testing the engine.
- 21 December - Hélène Dutrieu became the first winner of the Coupe Femina (Femina Cup) for a non-stop flight of 167 kilometers in 2 hours 35 minutes
- December 23 - Lt Theodore Ellyson of the United States Navy is assigned to flight training with the Curtiss company, making him the first naval aviator.
[edit] First flights
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