1909 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1909:
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[edit] Events
[edit] February
- 23 February – John McCurdy makes the first aeroplane flight in Canada in the Silver Dart. He flies 2,640 feet (805 m) at Baddeck, Cape Breton.
[edit] May
- 2 May – John Moore-Brabazon the first resident British citizen to make a recognised powered heavier-than-air flight in the UK, flying from The Aero Club's ground at Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey in his Voisin biplane Bird of Passage.[1]
- 7 May – The Royal Navy awards a contract to build its first rigid airship to Vickers.
- 14 May – Samuel Cody makes an aeroplane flight in the UK longer than 1-mile (1.6 km) in British Army Aeroplane No. 1.
- 26 May – The Zeppelin LZ-5 sets an endurance record by completing a 600-mile (970 km) nonstop trip in 38 hours.[2]
[edit] July
- The International Exhibition of Aviation opens in Frankfurt-am-Main (now known as ILA and regularly held in Berlin).
- 19 July – Hubert Latham makes the first attempt to cross the English Channel. He flies 11.2 kilometres (7 mi) from Calais in an Antoinette IV and lands in the water.[3] He becomes the first aviator to be rescued from the English Channel when a French warship picks him up.[4]
- 25 July – Louis Blériot claims a £1,000 prize from the British Daily Mail newspaper for being the first pilot to cross the English Channel. He makes the crossing in his Blériot Type XI from Les Barraques (near Calais) to Northfall Meadow (near Dover Castle) in 37 minutes. Blériot also receives an additional £3,000 from the French government.
- 30 July – The Imperial Japanese Army, the Imperial Japanese Navy, and Tokyo Imperial University form the Provisional Military Balloon Research Society to investigate flying machines for Japanese use.[5]
- 30 July – Orville Wright flies with passenger Lt. Benjamin Foulois at an average 42.58 miles per hour (68.53 km/h) mph over a measured round-trip course, successfully completing flight tests in the Wright Military Flyer for the U.S. Army at Fort Myer, Virginia. The Army buys the airplane for $30,000.
[edit] August
- La Grande Semaine d'Aviation (the Reims Aero meet) held at Bétheny, near Reims. Glenn Curtiss wins the first race held for the Gordon Bennett Cup.
- 26 August – The Antoinette IV airplane sets a world distance record, flying 154.6 km (96.1 mi) in 2 hours 17 minutes 21 seconds[6]
- 29 August – 100,000 people gather at Tempelhof Field to witness the arrival at Berlin, Germany, of the Zeppelin LZ 3, with Dr. Hugo Eckener in command and Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin aboard. More than two million more people watch from rooftops.[7]
[edit] September
- 7 September – Eugene Lefebvre is killed in the crash of an aeroplane when his controls jam at Juvisy France.
- 8 September – Samuel Cody flies from Aldershot to Farnborough and back (46 miles in 1 hour and 3 minutes). The first recorded cross-country flight in the United Kingdom.
- 22 September Ferdinand Ferber is killed in taxying accident at Boulogne.[8]
- 25 September – The French government's third airship, the semi-rigid La République, collapses in flight after a broken propeller blade pierces her envelope and crashes near the Château of Avrilly, France, killing her entire crew of four.[9]
- 26 September – The brothers Alexander and Anatol Renner fly an airship (which they had designed and built themselves) for the first time, making eight flights over the autumn fair at Graz. These are the first airship flights in Austria-Hungary.[10]
- 29 September – Wilbur Wright begins flights as part of New York City's Hudson-Fulton Celebration.
[edit] October
- 15–23 October - Britain's first Aviation Meeting held at Doncaster Racecourse.[11]
- 22 October – Baroness Raymonde de Laroche flies in an fixed-wing aircraft. (See also September 1908).
- 26 October – Marie Marvingt pilots a balloon across the North Sea and the English Channel from Europe to England.
- 30 October – John Moore-Brabazon in a Short Brothers aircraft flies a circular mile in the UK and wins £1,000 from the Daily Mail newspaper.
[edit] November
- The Austro-Hungarian Army's first airship, Militärluftschiff I (or M.I), makes its first flight. Among its passengers on the flight is Ferdinand Porsche.[12]
- 3 November – Alec Ogilvie patents the first airspeed indicator.
- 4 November – John Moore-Brabazon makes the first live cargo flight by airplane when he puts a small pig in a waste-paper basket tied to a wing-strut of his airplane.
- 16 November – The first air transport company (or airline) in the world, the German Airship Travel Corporation (known by its German language acronym DELAG), is founded at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, to use Zeppelins, a type of rigid airship, to carry passengers.[13]
[edit] December
- 5 December – George Taylor becomes the first person to fly a heavier-than-air craft in Australia, in a glider he designed. On the same day Florence Taylor becomes the first woman in Australia to fly a heavier-than-air craft, in the glider designed by her husband.
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- Fort Omaha Balloon School becomes the first United States Army school for balloon observers.
- The Austro-Hungarian Navy sends officers abroad for flight training.[14]
[edit] First flights
[edit] June
- 5 June – Roe I Triplane
[edit] Entered service
[edit] March
- Zeppelin LZ 3 into the German Army as the Z 1.
[edit] August
- 1 August – Wright Military Flyer into the US Army as Aeroplane No. 1
[edit] References
- ^ Fryer, Jonathan (September 2008). "Where British aviation began". The Journal of Kent History 67: 18–19.
- ^ Phythyon, John R., Jr., Great War at Sea: Zeppelins, Virginia Beach, Virginia: Avalanche Press, Inc., 2007, p. 5.
- ^ Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, ISBN 0-7607-0592-5, p. 52.
- ^ Calder, Nigel, The English Channel, New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1986, ISBN 0140101314, p. 188.
- ^ Francillon, René J., Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1979, ISBN 0-87021-313-X, p. 29.
- ^ Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, ISBN 0-7607-0592-5, p. 52.
- ^ Whitehouse, Arch, The Zeppelin Fighters, New York: Ace Books, 1966, no ISBN number, p. 33.
- ^ Gibbs-Smith, C.H. Aviation: An Historical Survey London: NMSI, 2003 ISBN 1 90074752 9
- ^ Whitehouse, Arch, The Zeppelin Fighters, New York: Ace Books, 1966, no ISBN number, p. 32.
- ^ Phythyon, John R., Jr., Great War at Sea: Zeppelins, Virginia Beach, Virginia: Avalanche Press, Inc., 2007, p. 43.
- ^ Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635-1985. Caterham: Marden. p. 20.
- ^ Phythyon, John R., Jr., Great War at Sea: Zeppelins, Virginia Beach, Virginia: Avalanche Press, Inc., 2007, p. 44.
- ^ Whitehouse, Arch, The Zeppelin Fighters, New York: Ace Books, 1966, no ISBN number, pp. 28-29.
- ^ Layman, R.D., Before the Aircraft Carrier: The Development of Aviation Vessels 1849-1922, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Insitute Press, 1989, ISBN 0-87021-210-9, p. 13.
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