1909 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1909:
Events
- Fort Omaha Balloon School becomes the first United States Armyschool for balloon observers.
- The officers abroad for flight training.[1]
- In the book L'Aviation Militaire ("Military Aviation"), Clément Ader writes ...an aircraft carrier will become indispensable. Such ships will be very differently constructed from anything in existence today. To start with, the deck will have been cleared of any obstacles: it will be a flat area, as wide as possible, not conforming to the lines of the hull, and will resemble a landing strip. The speed of this ship will have to be at least as great as that of cruisers or even greater...Servicing the aircraft will have to be done below this deck...Access to this lower deck will be by means of a lift long enough and wide enough to take an aircraft with its wings folded...Along the sides will be the workshops of the mechanics responsible for refitting the planes and for keeping them always ready for flight.[2] Discussing the landing of aircraft, he writes, The ship will be headed straight into the wind, the stern clear, but a padded bulwark set up forward in case the airplane should run past the stop line.
January–March
- 23 February – John McCurdy makes the first aeroplane flight in Canada in the AEA Silver Dart. He flies 2,640 feet (805 m) from the ice of Bras d'Or Lake at Baddeck on Cape Breton Island.
- 3 March – American aviators Herring-Curtiss Company.
April–June
- 15 April – The first airport and flying school in Wilbur Wright, who gives a flight demonstration of a Wright airplane.
- 2 May –
- 7 May – The British Royal Navy awards a contract to build its first rigid airship to Vickers.
- 14 May – British Army Aeroplane No. 1.
- 26 May – The Zeppelin LZ 5 sets an endurance record by completing a 712-mile (1,146 km) nonstop trip in 37 hours 39 minutes.[5]
- 30 May – Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin pilots a Zeppelin on a 22-hour flight that covers 400 miles (644 km).[6]
- 2 June – The United States East Coast.[7]
- 5 June – Alliott Verdon Roe begins flights in the first fixed-wing aircraft of all-British manufacture, the Roe I Triplane, from Walthamstow Marshes.
- 27 June – 17-year-old Eric Gordon England flies French-born painter José Weiss's tailless glider Olive from a launch ramp above Amberley, West Sussex, England in the first recorded soaring flight, origin of sport gliding.[8][9]
July–September
- The Frankfurt-am-Main(now known as ILA and regularly held in Berlin).
- 3 July – Louis Blériot achieves a flight of over 26 miles (42 km) in just over 47 minutes.[10]
- 12 July – Flying the Blériot XII, Louis Blériot makes the world's first airplane flight with two passengers, one of whom is Alberto Santos-Dumont.[11]
- 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 monoplane before suffering engine failure and making history's first landing of an aircraft in the sea about halfway across.[12] He becomes the first aviator to be rescued from the English Channel when French Navy destroyer Harpon picks him up.[13]
- 20 July – Orville Wright sets a new United States airplane endurance record, remaining aloft for 1 hour 20 minutes 25 seconds.[7]
- 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 in an airplane. He makes the crossing in his Blériot Type XI, flying 21 miles (34 km) 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.[10]
- While Bleriot warms up his Blériot XI prior to his flight, a farm dog runs into the plane's propeller and is killed. It is the first terrestrial wildlife strike involving an aircraft ever recorded.[14]
- 28 July –
- 30 July
- The
- Wright Military Flyer for the U.S. Army at Fort Myer, Virginia. The Army buys the airplane for $30,000.
- 7 August – French aviator Roger Sommer sets a new world airplane endurance record, remaining aloft for 2 hours 27 minutes 15 seconds.[17]
- 22–29 August – The Rheims:
- 26 August – The Antoinette IV airplane sets a world distance record at Rheims, flying 154.6 km (96.1 mi) in 2 hours 17 minutes 21 seconds:[12]
- 27 August – Henri Farman raises the airplane distance record to 180 km (110 mi).[18]
- 28 August
- At Rheims, Glenn Curtiss wins the first airplane race held for the Gordon Bennett Cup, flying 20 km (12.42 miles) in 15 minutes 50.6 seconds at an average speed of 47 mph (75.7 km/h), finishing 5.6 seconds ahead of Louis Blériot.[17]
- Louis Blériot sets a world speed record over a 10 km (6.2 mi) circuit at a speed of 76.95 km/h (47.81 mph).[18]
- 29 August – 100,000 people gather at Zeppelin LZ 3, with Hugo Eckener in command and Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin aboard. More than two million more people watch from rooftops.[19]
- 2 September – Scarborough Beach Amusement Park in the Beaches neighborhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada hosts one of the first, if not the first, air shows in North America. The show features one plane, a Curtiss Golden Flyer piloted by Charles Willard, which on the first evening is forced to make an emergency landing in Lake Ontario after only a few seconds in the air.[20][21]
- 7 September – Juvisy France.
- 8 September – Farnborough and back (46 miles in 1 hour and 3 minutes), the first recorded cross-country flight in the United Kingdom.
- 22 September – Boulogne.[22]
- 24 September – Wilbur Wright express his desire that foreign aircraft be prohibited from entering the United States.[23]
- 25 September
- The
- The first National Aeronautic Show opens at Madison Square Garden in New York City.[23]
- 26 September – The brothers Alexander and Anatol Renner fly an airship (which they have 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.[25]
- 29 September – Hudson-Fulton Celebration.
October–December
- 2 October – Orville Wright sets a new world altitude record for airplanes, reaching an estimated 500 meters (1,640 feet) over Potsdam, Germany.[26][27]
- 15–23 October – Britain's first Aviation Meeting held at Doncaster Racecourse.[28]
- 22 October – Baroness Raymonde de Laroche flies in a fixed-wing aircraft. (See also September 1908).[29]
- 26 October – Marie Marvingt pilots a balloon across the North Sea and the English Channel from Europe to England.
- 30 October – John Moore-Brabazon flies a circular mile in the Short Biplane No. 2in the UK and wins £1,000 from the Daily Mail newspaper.
- 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.[30][31]
- 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
- 20 November – Cerchez & Co., the first aircraft company, the first aerodrome and the first flight school in Romania is founded at Chitila by Mihail Cerchez.[33]
- 5 December – glider he designed. On the same day Florence Taylorbecomes the first woman in Australia to fly a heavier-than-air craft, in the glider designed by her husband.
- 8 December – With Enea Bossi, Sr., at the controls, the first Italian-designed and -built airplane to fly takes to the air for the first time. Bossi, Giuseppe Bellanco, and Paolo Invernizzi had designed it.[34][35][36]
- 31 December – Harry Ferguson becomes the first person to fly an aircraft in Ireland, when he takes off in a monoplane he had designed and built himself.
First flights
January
- 23 January – Blériot XI
May
- 21 May – Blériot XII
June
- 5 June – Roe I Triplane
- 28 June – Breguet Type I
August
- 17 August – Grade monoplane[37]
December
- De Havilland Biplane No. 1 (crashes)
Entered service
March
- German Armyas the Z 1.
August
- 1 August – Wright Military Flyer into the US Armyas Aeroplane No. 1
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