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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1919:
[edit] Events
[edit] January
[edit] February
- February 5 - Beginning of regular flights between Berlin and Weimar by the Deutsche Luft-Reederei with AEG and DFW biplanes.
- February 8 - Henry Farman carries eleven paying passengers in his plane from Paris to London on first commercial flight between the two cities.
- June 1 – A permanent flight of aircraft is stationed in San Diego to serve as a forest fire patrol. The machines are war-surplus Curtiss JN-4s.
- June 7 – Flying a Caudron G.3, Raymonde de Laroche of France sets a women's altitude record of nearly 13,000 feet (3,962 m).[4]
- June 8 – Royal Air Force Fairey IIIC seaplanes from the Royal Navy aircraft carrier/seaplane carrier HMS Pegasus bomb four Bolshevik naval vessels in North Russia, with little effect.[5]
- June 10 – Ruth Law of the United States breaks the women's altitude record, flying to 14,700 feet (4,481 m).[4]
- June 12 – Raymonde de Laroche again breaks the women's altitude record, flying to a height of 5,150 m (16,896 ft).[6]
- June 14 – Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown set out on the first successful non-stop Atlantic crossing, flying a Vickers Vimy from Newfoundland to Ireland in 16 hours. They win £10,000 from the Daily Mail and are both knighted.
- June 23 – Six Zeppelins (LZ 46, LZ 79, LZ 91, LZ103, LZ 110, and LZ 111) are destroyed at Nordholz by their own crews in order to prevent them from falling into Allied hands.
- June 28 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed. Among its many provisions is one which prohibits Germany from ever again possessing armed aircraft.
- After resuming flying lessons (which he had discontinued in June 1914) during the first half of 1919, Winston Churchill, the United Kingom's first Secretary of State for Air, suffers only severe bruises in the crash of an airplane which he is piloting during a lesson; his instructor, however, is hospitalised for several months with severe injuries and undergoes numerous reconstructive surgeries. Churchill never again takes flying lessons.[7]
- July 1 – London's first airport is opened, at Hounslow Heath Aerodrome. The facilities include a permanent Customs hall.
- July 2 – The British airship R34 begins the first lighter-than-air crossing of the Atlantic Ocean and the first east-to-west Atlantic flight, leaving East Fortune, Scotland, to arrive in New York on July 6. The journey becomes a successful two-way crossing when the airship arrives back in the United Kingdom on July 13.
- July 11 – President Woodrow Wilson signs the Naval Appropriations Act of 1920, which includes funding for the conversion of the collier USS Jupiter into the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier.[3]
- July 14 – A Fiat BR makes the first nonstop flight from Rome to Paris.
- July 14 – To protest against the fact that pilots have to parade on foot at the World War I victory parade on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, French pilot Charles Godefroy flies his Nieuport fighter under the arches of the Arc de Triomphe.
- July 18 – Riding as a passenger, Raymonde de Laroche dies along with the pilot in the crash of an experimental Caudron airplane at Le Crotoy airfield in France.[4]
- July 21 – Anthony Fokker founds the Dutch Aircraft Factory at Schiphol.
- July 21 – Flying at an altitude of 1,200 feet (366 meters) over the Chicago Loop in Chicago, Illinois, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company dirigible Wingfoot Air Express catches fire. It crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building, killing three of the five people on board and killing 10 and injuring 27 bank employees in the building. It is the worst dirigible disaster in United States history at the time.
[edit] August
- August 2 – In Italy's first civil aviation disaster, a Caproni Ca.48 airliner crashes near Verona, killing all on board. Sources differ on the death toll, placing it at 14,[8] 15,[9] and 17.[10]
- August 7 – Captain Ernest Hoy makes the first aircraft crossing of the Rocky Mountains, from Vancouver to Calgary.
- August 19 – The United States readopts its pre-January 1918 official national insignia for U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marine Corps aircraft, a white star centered in a blue circle with a red disc centered within the star
. The marking will remain in use until June 1, 1942.[11]
- August 25 – The first daily international flights begin, with the Aircraft Transport and Travel company flying a de Havilland DH.16 between London (Hounslow Heath Aerodrome) and Paris - Le Bourget Airport.
[edit] September
[edit] October
- October 4 – A new altitude world record of 9,622 meters (31,569 feet) is set by American pilot Rudolph Schroeder, flying a Packard-Le Peré LUSAC-11.
- October 7 – The airline KLM is formed.
- October 8 – The US Army Air Service begins a transcontinental air race. By the time Lt Belvin Maynard wins it on October 31, seven airmen have died in the attempt.
- October 11 – Handley Page Transport begins offering the first in-flight meals, on its London-Brussels service. The meals, consisting of a sandwich, fruits and chocolate, are sold at 3 shillings each.
- October 13 – Convention relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation signed in Paris.
- October 20 – The French pilot Bernard de Romanet, flying a Nieuport-Delage 29v, sets a new world speed record of 268.79 km/hr (166.92 mph).
[edit] November
[edit] December
[edit] First flights
[edit] January
[edit] February
[edit] September
[edit] November
[edit] December
[edit] Entered service
[edit] References
- ^ Scheina, Robert L., Latin America: A Naval History 1810-1987, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987, ISBN 0-87021-295-8, p. 199.
- ^ Francillon, René J., Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1979, ISBN 0-87021-313-X, p. 30.
- ^ a b Layman, R.D., Before the Aircraft Carrier: The Development of Aviation Vessels 1849-1922, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1989, ISBN 0-87021-210-9, p. 122.
- ^ a b c Pawlak, Debra Ann, "The Baroness of Flight," Aviation History, July 2008, p. 17.
- ^ Thetford, Owen, British Naval Aircraft Since 1912, Sixth Edition, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1991, ISBN 1-55750-076-2, p. 121.
- ^ Pawlak, Debra Ann, "The Baroness of Flight," Aviation History, July 2008, p. 17, claims the heigh reached was 15,748 feet (4,800 m).
- ^ Colvin, Perry, "Churchill's Aerial Adventures: The Future Prime Minister's Passion For Flying Helped Transform Military Aviation in Britain," Aviation History, January 2012, p. 19.
- ^ Guttman, Jon, "Crazy Capronis," Aviation History, July 2008.
- ^ Venice Airport Lido: On the Wings of the Sparrow
- ^ Guttman, Jon, "Crazy Capronis," Aviation History, July 2008, p. 55.
- ^ Swanborough, Gordon, and Peter M. Bowers, United States Navy Aircraft Since 1911, Second Edition, London: Putnam, 1976, ISBN 0-370-10054-9, pp. 24, 27.
- ^ Francillon, René J., Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1979, ISBN 0-87021-313-X, p. 26.
- ^ Aviation Hawaii: 1879-1919 Chronology of Aviation in Hawaii
- ^ Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 0-517-56588-9, p. 460.
- ^ Peattie, Mark R., Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power 1909-1941, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2001, ISBN 1-55750-432-6, p. 17.
- ^ Gardiner, Robert, ed., Conway(('))s All the World(('))s Fighting Ships 1906-1921, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1985, ISBN 0-87021-907-3, p. 240.
- ^ Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 94.
- ^ Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 197.
- ^ Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 0-517-56588-9, p. 421.
- ^ Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 0-517-56588-9, p. 430.
- ^ Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 196.
- ^ Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 115.
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