1920 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1920:
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[edit] Events
- Juan de la Cierva y Cordoniu invents the autogyro. His first autogyro, the Cierva C.1, fails to become airborne, but is the first aircraft to demonstrate the principle of autorotation as it taxis on the ground.[1][2][3]
- The Argentine Navy establishes a naval aviation division and allocates funds for the founding of a naval aviation school.[4]
- The Peruvian Navy establishes a Naval Aviation Corps.[5][6]
- Imperial Japanese Army aviation elements see combat for the first time in operations around Vladivostok during the Siberian Intervention.[7]
- The Aichi Clock and Electric Company Ltd. begins the production of airframes at Nagoya, Japan. It will begin producing aircraft engines in 1927.[8]
- Mitsubishi Internal Combustion Engine Company Ltd. registers as an aircraft manufacturing company, with its factory at Kobe, Japan, and takes over the aircraft manufacturing business of its parent company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.[9]
- British military thinker Colonel J. F. C. Fuller writes that in the next war "Fleets of aeroplanes will attack the enemy's great industrial and governing centres. All these attacks will be made against the civil population in order to compel it to accept the will of the attacker..."[10]
[edit] January
- January 17 – The first United States Navy airplane flight in the Hawaiian Islands takes place when a plane takes off from Honolulu.[11]
- January 21 – The last Royal Navy balloon ship, HMS Canning, which has operated since December 1916 as a balloon depot ship, is sold.[12]
[edit] February
- February – Publication of Alan A. Griffith's analysis of the process of brittle fracture.[13]
- February 1 – The South African Air Force is established as an independent air arm.
- February 1 – The first interisland commercial flight in the Hawaiian Islands takes place when pilot Charles Fern carries a paying passenger from Honolulu to Maui and back. The outbound flight requires an emergency stop on Molokai.[11]
- February 4 – Pierre van Ryneveld and Quentin Brand set out in a Vickers Vimy from Cairo to cross Africa by air from North to South. They will arrive in Cape Town on March 20.
- February 5 – The Royal Air Force College is established at Cranwell, Lincolnshire.
- February 27 – Piloting a United States Army Air Service Packard-Le Peré LUSAC-11 fighter equipped with one of the first turbochargers, Major Rudolf Schroeder sets a new world altitude record of 10,099 meters (33,113 feet). His oxygen system fails and he passes out; he regains consciousness only very near the ground and lands safely, but is hospitalized.
[edit] March
- March 24 - The United States Navy decommissions the collier USS Jupiter at Norfolk Navy Yard in Norfolk, Virginia, for her conversion into its first aircraft carrier, designated CV-1.[14]
- March 24 - The United States Coast Guard opens Coast Guard Air Station Morehead City at Morehead City, North Carolina. It is the first Coast Guard Air Station.[15]
- March 28 - Croydon replaces Hounslow Heath Aerodrome as London's airport.
[edit] April
- Three Imperial Japanese Navy Yoko-type seaplanes fly from Yokosuka, Japan, to Kure, Japan; Chinkai, Korea; Sasebo, Japan; and back to Yokosuka. On the last leg they fly non-stop for a world-record 11 hours 30 minutes, the first time any aircraft has flown nonstop for more than 10 hours.[16]
- April 17 - The Venezuelan Air Force is formed, with a flying school at Maracay
[edit] May
- May 17 - KLM and Aircraft Transport and Travel begin a joint air service between London and Amsterdam.
[edit] June
- An airplane takes off from a ship for the first time in Japan when Lieutenant Kuwabara flies an imported Sopwith Pup off a deck mounted on the seaplane carrier Wakamiya.[17]
- June 4 - The United States Congress passes the United States Army Reorganization Act, which establishes the United States Army Air Service as a combatant arm of the United States Army[18] but dashes the hopes of U.S. Army aviators for an American independent air arm like Britain's Royal Air Force.
[edit] July
- July 1 - Belgium establishes the first internal air-service of any European colony with the Lara-Ligne Aérienne Roi Albert in the Belgian Congo
- July 3 - The first Royal Air Force Pageant is held, at London
- July 22 - Donald W. Douglas and Davis R. Davis found the Davis-Douglas Company in Los Angeles, California.[19]
- July 29 - U.S. Postal Office's first transcontinental airmail flight takes off from New York
[edit] September
- Geoffrey de Havilland creates the de Havilland Aircraft Company.[20]
- September 8 - The final leg is added to the US transcontinental airmail service, across the Rocky Mountains from Omaha to Sacramento
- September 20 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Venice, Italy. Lieutenant Luigi Bolgna in a Savoia S.12 is the only starter and wins simply by finishing the race. Speed 172.6 km/h (107.3 mph).
[edit] November
- The Royal Air Force's No. 60 Squadron sees active service against rebel tribesmen in the Northwest Frontier Province of India.[20]
- November 1 – The United States Post Office awards a contract for international air mail to Aeromarine West Indies Airways.
- November 11 – United States Marine Corps Second Lieutenant Ralph Talbot and Gunnery Sergeant Robert Guy Robinson become the first U.S. Marine Corps aviators to receive the Medal of Honor, for an action in an Airco DH.4 against German fighters over Belgium on October 14, 1918. Talbot's award is posthumous, as he had died during a test flight on October 25, 1918.[21]
- November 16 – Qantas is formed at Longreach, Queensland, Australia.
[edit] First flights
[edit] April
- April 8 – de Havilland DH.18
- April 13 – Nieuport London
[edit] June
- June 11 – Verville VCP[22]
[edit] September
[edit] October
- October 13 – Naval Aircraft Factory TF[23]
[edit] Entered service
[edit] August
- The Fokker F.II with KLM
[edit] References
- ^ Wikipedia Autogyro article.
- ^ Wikipedia Juan de la Cierva article.
- ^ Wikipedia Cierva C.1 article.
- ^ Scheina, Robert L., Latin America: A Naval History 1810-1987, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987, ISBN 0-87021-295-8, p. 193.
- ^ Scheina, Robert L., Latin America: A Naval History 1810-1987, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987, ISBN 0-87021-295-8, p. 200.
- ^ Wikipedia Peruvian Navy article.
- ^ Francillon, René J., Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1979, ISBN 0-87021-313-X, p. 30.
- ^ Francillon, René J., Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1979, ISBN 0-87021-313-X, p. 18.
- ^ Francillon, René J., Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1979, ISBN 0-87021-313-X, p. 23.
- ^ Fuller, J. F. C., Tanks in the Great War, London, 1920, p. 314, quoted in Hastings, Max, Bomber Command: Churchill's Epic Campaign - The Inside Story of the RAF's Valiant Attempt to End the War, New York: Simon & Schuster Inc., 1987, ISBN 0-671-68070-6, p. 41.
- ^ a b Aviation Hawaii: 1920-1929 Chronology of Aviation in Hawaii
- ^ 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. 77.
- ^ "The Phenomenon of Rupture and Flow in Solids". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A221: 163-98. February 1920. http://www.jstor.org/stable/91192. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
- ^ 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 Chronological History of Coast Guard Aviation: The Early Years, 1915-1938.
- ^ 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. 16.
- ^ Francillon, René J., Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1979, ISBN 0-87021-313-X, p. 38.
- ^ Mauer, Maurer, Air Force Combat Units of World War II: The Concise official Military Record, Edison, New Jersey: Chartwell Books, 1961, ISBN 0-7858-0194-4, p. 4.
- ^ Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 182.
- ^ a b Chant, Chris, The World's Great Bombers, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2000, ISBN 0-7607-2012-6, p. 44.
- ^ Borch, Fred L., and Robert E. Dorr, "Bravery Over Belgium," Military History, March 2012, p. 17.
- ^ 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, p. 323.
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