1924 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1924:
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[edit] Events
- Violating the Treaty of Versailles, Germany establishes a secret training base for German pilots at Lipetsk in the Soviet Union. More than 450 German air force personnel will train there over the next ten years.[1]
- Following a military revolt, Brazil abolishes Brazilian Army and Brazilian Navy contrrol of aviation and places all military aviation units under the direct control of the general staff.[2][3]
- The Tachikawa Aircraft Company Ltd. is founded at Tachikawa, Japan.[4]
[edit] January
- January 29 – Pateras Pesara flies an experimental helicopter in Paris. The machine flies 800 metres (2,640 ft) in just over 10 minutes.
[edit] February
- February 20 – Three French Army officers make the first two-way aerial crossing of the Sahara Desert in a Breguet 14.
[edit] March
- Huff Darland Dusters is established as the world's first crop dusting company in Georgia in the United States. It will eventually grow into Delta Air Service, then Delta Air Lines.
- March 25 – Squadron Leader Archibald Stuart Charles Stuart-MacLaren, Flying Officer William Noble Plenderleith, Sergeant W. H. Andrews of the Royal Air Force set off from Calshot in a Vickers Vulture II in an eastbound attempt to circumnavigate the world. Their attempt ultimately will fail on August 4 in the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea.[5]
[edit] April
- April 1 – Imperial Airways is formed, with the backing of the British government.
- April 1 – Flights of Royal Air Force aircraft operating from Royal Navy ships are given the collective title "Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Air Force." This will later be shortened to "Fleet Air Arm."[6]
- April 1 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
- April 6 – Four United States Army Air Service Douglas World Cruisers depart Seattle, Washington, beginning a six-month westbound journey which will culminate in the first aerial circumnavigation of the world.
- April 7 – Portuguese Commander Brito Pais and Captain Sarmento de Beires depart Lisbon eastbound in the Breguet 16.Bn2 Patria, beginning an attempt to fly around the world. They will crash Patria in India, but will continue in the de Havilland DH.9A Patria II before being forced to end their attempt in June in Macau.[7]
- April 24 – French Captain Georges Pelletier d'Oisy and Adjutant Lucien Besin depart Paris eastbound in a Breguet 19.A.2, beginning an attempt to fly around the world. They will be forced to end their attempt in May in Shanghai.[8]
- April 26 – Imperial Airways makes its first scheduled flight, from Croydon Aerodrome to Paris, using a de Havilland DH.34.[9]
[edit] May
- May 17 – During its first aerial circumnavigation of the world, the westbound United States Army Air Service flight of Douglas World Cruisers arrive in northern Japan, completing the first crossing of the Pacific Ocean by airplane.[10]
- May 19 – The first aerial circumnavigation of Australia is carried out, by a Royal Australian Air Force crew in a Fairey IIID.[11]
- May 20 – French Captain Georges Pelletier d'Oisy and Adjutant Lucien Besin crash their Breguet 19.A.2 on a golf course in Shanghai, ending their attempt to fly around the world eastbound. They had covered 10,580 miles (17,037 km) in 26 days since leaving Paris.[12]
[edit] June
- June 23 – Lieutenant Russell Maughan makes the first one-day crossing of the United States, completing the flight from Long Island, New York, to San Francisco, California, in a Curtiss PW-8 in 21 hours 48 minutes.
- June 24 – In Macau, Portuguese Commander Brito Pais and Captain Sarmento de Beires give up on their eastbound attempt to circumnavigate the world in the de Havilland DH.9A Patria II after covering 11,000 miles (17,713 km) from Lisbon.[13]
- June 25 – Westbound from Rangoon to Akyab, the United States Army Air Service flight of Douglas World Cruisers attempting the first aerial circumnavigation of the world unknowingly flies over the Vickers Vulture II amphibian of the Royal Air Force team of MacLaren, Plenderleith, and Andrews, which is sheltering in a coastal bay in Burma while eastbound from Akyab to Rangoon during its own attempt at a circumnavigation.[14]
[edit] July
- July 1 – Regular night airmail services commence in the United States, linking Chicago, Illinois, with Cheyenne, Wyoming.
- July 10 – Japanese aircraft sink a ship for the first time, when Imperial Japanese Navy bombers use level bombing from an average height of 1,000 meters (3,281 feet) over the course of four hours to sink the retired coast defense battleship Iwami off Yokosuka.[15][16]
- July 17 – French Captain Georges Pelletier d'Oisy completes a flight from Paris to Tokyo, using a Breguet 14 borrowed from the Republic of China government after the May crash of his Breguet 19.A.2 at Shanghai. The journey from Paris takes 120 hours in the air over 84 days.[17]
[edit] August
- The Bolivian Air Force is formed, as the Cuerpo de Aviación ("Aviation Corps").
- August 4 – The attempt of the Royal Air Force team of MacLaren, Plenderleith, and Andrews to circumnavigate the world eastbound ends when they are forced down in the Bering Sea by fog and their Vickers Vulture amphibian is irreparably damaged. They taxi to safety at Bering Island in the Commander Islands. They had covered 13,100 miles (21,095 km) in 130 days.[18]
- August 8 – The U.S. Navy dirigible USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) docks with the airship tender USS Patoka (AO-9) while the latter is underway, showing that airships could operate from support ships far out to sea.
- August 24 – The U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Richmond (CL-9) rescues the crew of an Italian flying boat that is forced down in the Arctic Ocean by bad weather.
- August 31 – Six United States Army Air Service aviators flying Douglas World Cruisers arrive in Labrador, completing the transatlantic leg of their first aerial circumnavigation of the world.
[edit] September
- September 11 – Canada's first regular airmail service begins, with Laurentide Air Services linking Haileybury, Ontario, with Rouyn, Quebec.
- September 28 – Two of the original four United States Army Air Service Douglas World Cruisers that had set out from Seattle, Washington on April 6 arrive in Seattle, completing the first aerial circumnavigation of the world. Their westbound journey had covered 27,534 miles (44,338 km) in 371 hours in the air, taking 175 days.[19]
[edit] October
- October 9 – In the United Kingdom, the Royal Auxiliary Air Force is established.
- October 12–15 – The Zeppelin-built dirigible LZ 126 is flown from Germany to the United States under guidance of Hugo Eckener for delivery to the U.S. Navy.
[edit] November
- Twenty-two of Brazil's 39 naval pilots are arrested for antigovernment activity.[20]
- November 11 – Lieutenant Dixie Kiefer makes the first night catapult launch from a ship, the U.S. Navy battleship USS California (BB-44).
- November 24 – A KLM Fokker F.VII makes the first flight from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies, taking 127 hours 16 minutes.
- November 25 – The dirigible LZ 126 is commissioned into the U.S. Navy as USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) at Naval Air Station Anacostia in Washington, D.C..
[edit] December
- December 12 – The Cierva C.6 autogyro makes the first cross-country flight by a rotary-wing aircraft, piloted by Captain Joaquín Loriga Taboada the 10.5 km (7 statute miles) from Cuatro Vientos airfield to Getafe, Spain, in eight minutes.[21]
- December 13 – In an early parasite fighter experiment, Lieutenant Clyde Flinter unsuccessfully attempts to dock his Sperry Messenger with the United States Army airship TC-3.
- December 14 – A Martin MO-1 is launched using an explosive-driven catapult fitted to a turret on the U.S. Navy battleship USS Mississippi (BB-41), requiring less distance than ever for the take-off.
- December 24 – Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.34 G-EBBX crashes at Purley, Surrey, in the United Kingdom, shortly after takeoff from Croydon Airport, killing all eight people on board. It is Imperial Airways' first fatal accident, and as a result of a public inquiry into the disaster Croydon Airport is expanded to absorb almost all of Beddington Aerodrome.
[edit] First flights
[edit] March
[edit] May
- May 4 - Sikorsky S-29-A
- May 26 - Tupolev ANT-2
- May 30 — Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.8
[edit] June
- June 16 - Blériot-SPAD S.51
- June 23 - Focke-Wulf A-16
[edit] July
- July 19 - Blériot 135
[edit] August
- Savoia Marchetti S.55
- Hawker Cygnet
- August 21 - Fokker F.VII
[edit] September
- Aero A.24
- September 4 – Curtiss F4C-1[23]
[edit] October
- October 4 – Curtiss XPW-8A, predecessor of the XPW-8B, prototype in turn of the Curtiss P-1 Hawk[24]
[edit] November
- Kawanishi K-7 Transport Seaplane
- November 6 - Dornier Do J
[edit] Entered service
[edit] May
[edit] References
- ^ Hardesty, Von, Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power 1941-1945, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982, ISBN 0-87474-510-1, p. 44.
- ^ Scheina, Robert L., Latin America: A Naval History 1810-1987, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987, ISBN 0-87021-295-8, p. 195.
- ^ Wikipedia Tenente revolts article.
- ^ Francillon, René J., Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1979, ISBN 0-87021-313-X, p. 27.
- ^ O'Connor, Derek, "All in the Game," Aviation History, September 2010, pp. 54-59.
- ^ Sturtivant, Ray, British Naval Aviation: The Fleet Air Arm, 1917-1990, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1990, ISBN 0-87021-026-2, p. 12.
- ^ O'Connor, Derek, "All in the Game," Aviation History, September 2010, pp. 56-57.
- ^ O'Connor, Derek, "All in the Game," Aviation History, September 2010, p. 56.
- ^ "Imperial Airways". Century of Flight. http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/coming%20of%20age/imperial%20airways.htm. Retrieved 2010-06-25.
- ^ O'Connor, Derek, "All in the Game," Aviation History, September 2010, p. 56
- ^ Isaacs 1984, pp.40—49.
- ^ O'Connor, Derek, "All in the Game," Aviation History, September 2010, pp. 56-57, 58-59.
- ^ O'Connor, Derek, "All in the Game," Aviation History, September 2010, pp. 57.
- ^ O'Connor, Derek, "All in the Game," Aviation History, September 2010, p. 57.
- ^ Wikipedia Japanese battleship Iwami article
- ^ 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. 34.
- ^ O'Connor, Derek, "All in the Game," Aviation History, September 2010, pp. 58-59.
- ^ O'Connor, Derek, "All in the Game," Aviation History, September 2010, pp. 54, 59.
- ^ O'Connor, Derek, "All in the Game," Aviation History, September 2010, pp. 56-57, 59.
- ^ Scheina, Robert L., Latin America: A Naval History 1810-1987, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987, ISBN 0-87021-295-8, p. 195.
- ^ http://www.airwar.ru/enc/other1/c6.html airwar.ru Cierva C.6
- ^ 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. 424.
- ^ Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, p. 127.
- ^ 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, pp. 126-127.
- ^ Donald, David, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997, ISBN 0-7607-0592-5, p. 63.
- Isaacs, Keith. "The Fairey IIID In Australia". Air Enthusiast, Number 24, April–June 1984. Bromley, Kent, UK:Pilot Press. ISSN 0143-5450. pp. 40–49.
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