1930 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1930:
Events
- The Surrey Aero Club inaugurates recreational flights from Gatwick Race Course (now London Gatwick Airport).
- The German airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes its first crossing of the South Atlantic.
- The Aeromarine-Klemm Corporation, formerly the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company, goes out of business, although the Uppercu-Burnelli Corporation takes over production of Aeromarine aircraft engines.[1]
- French test pilot Roger Baptiste achieves a speed of 280 km/h (170 mph) at an altitude of 4,000 metres (13,000 ft) in the Bernard 20 monoplane fighter prototype.[2]
- Nineteen-year-old Rex Finney of Los Angeles, California, uses the first successful wingsuit, employing it to increase horizontal movement and maneuverability during a parachute jump.[3]
- During the year, the percentage of
- Autumn 1930 – The Royal Air Force rededicates No. 443 Flight of the Fleet Air Arm as the first British catapult flight of aircraft assigned to operate from battleship and cruiser catapults.[5]
January
- January 2 –
- January 16 – On speed trials, the British airship R100 reaches 81 mph (130 km/h), making her the fastest airship in the world.
- January 17 – Record-setting aviator Frank Hawks attempts to take off in the Lockheed Air Express Texaco Five (registration NR7955) from a soggy field in West Palm Beach, Florida, but the plane is destroyed in a spectacular crash into a row of three parked aircraft. Hawks is unharmed.[7][8]
- January 19 – Trying to return to Maddux Airlines Flight 7 – the Ford 5-AT-C Tri-Motor NC9689 – crashes in Oceanside, California, and catches fire, killing all 16 people on board. It is the deadliest aviation accident in American history at the time.[9]
- January 25 – American Airwaysis formed.
February
- At the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States Navy tests a Ford 5-AT-74 Trimotor equipped with 30-foot (9.1-meter) floats during the month for use as a torpedo bomber, but does not pursue the concept further.[10]
- February 10 – The
- February 15 – The Italian air power theorist Giulio Douhet dies at the age of 60.
- February 17 – A fire destroys the workshops of the Couzinet 27Arc-en-ciel II.
- February 24 – Rancho-Boyeros Airport – the future José Martí International Airport – opens at Havana, Cuba.
March
- The Government of Chile creates the Directorate General of Civil Aviation as Chile′s national civil aviation authority.
- March 21 – The Chilean army and navy air arms are combined to form the Chilean Air Force.
- March 28 – The Imperial Ethiopian Air Force flies its first mission, when three of its biplanes drop propaganda leaflets over the army of the rebel Gugsa Welle as it advances across Ethiopia's Begemderprovince. The leaflets prompt some members of his army to desert.
- March 30 – Towed by a continental United States to New York City.[12]
- March 31 – The three Imperial Ethiopian Air Force biplanes reappear over Gugsa Welle's army and bomb it at the beginning of the Battle of Anchem in the first combat mission in the air force's history. The bombing proves decisive, as it prompts so many members of Gugsa Welle's army to desert that it is badly outnumbered by the time ground combat begins between it and Imperial forces at Debre Zebit, when many more of its members desert, resulting in its defeat and Gugsa Welle's death.
April
- A rotary-wing aircrafttakes off from a body of water.
- April 1 – Gerhard Fieseler founds the Fieseler aircraft manufacturing company under the name Fieseler Flugzeugbau Kassel.
- April 2
- The first Korean aviator, An Chang-nam, dies in the crash of his aircraft while he is returning to the airport at the Shanxi Aviation Academy at Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, in bad weather.
- The prototype of the parasol-winged flying boat (registration F-AKDI) breaks up in the air and crashes while being demonstrated for a French Navyofficial, killing both men on board. No further examples of the aircraft are built.
- April 6
- Flying the Wright XF3W-1 Apache, United States Navy Lieutenant Apollo Soucek sets a world altitude record, climbing to 43,166 feet (13,157 meters).[13]
- Towed by a San Diego, California, during which it has spent 44 hours 10 minutes in the air. The flight demonstrates the feasibility of towing gliders over long distances.[12]
- April 9 – Flying his de Havilland DH.60 Moth Miss India, Man Mohan Singh becomes the first Indian to fly (solo) from England to British India, landing at RAF Drigh Road, Karachi one month and one day after departing from Croydon Airport.
- April 10 – Flying the Junkers G 38 D-2000, Wilhelm Zimmermann sets four new world records for an aircraft carrying a payload of 5,000 kilograms (11,000 lb), averaging a record 184.5 km/h (114.6 mph) over a distance of 100 kilometres (62 mi) and a record 172.9 km/h (107.4 mph) over a distance of 500 kilometres (310 mi) and setting a distance record of 501.6 kilometres (311.7 mi) and an endurance record of 3 hours 2 minutes.[14]
- April 10–20 – The ornithologist Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, and her personal pilot C. D. Barnard make a record-breaking flight in the Fokker F.VII Spider (G-EBTS) of 9,000 miles (14,000 km) from Lympne Airport in Lympne, England, to Cape Town, South Africa, in 100 flying hours over 10 days.
- April 23 – A diesel engineed aircraft crashes in New York (state); among the 3 killed is Lionel Woolson, designer of the radial air-cooled aero diesel engine.[15]
- April 27 – During an
May
- May 5–14 – de Havilland Gipsy Moth.[18]
- May 11 – The New York Air Show of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce is held at Madison Square Garden[19]
- May 12–13 – Flying for South Atlantic Ocean, flying from Dakar, Senegal, to Natal, Brazil, in the float-equipped Latécoère 28-3 mail plane Comte de la Vaulx. The 3,058-kilometer (1,900-mile) flight takes 19 hours 35 minutes, and the plane carries 122 kilograms (269 pounds) of mail.[20] On the return flight, Mermoz is forced to ditchComte de la Vaux at sea; although he, his two companions, and the mail are saved, the aircraft sinks and is lost.
- May 15 – Boeing Air Transport.
- May 18 – The German Friederichshafen, Germany, on the first airship flight across the South Atlantic, bound for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a trial flight to test the feasibility of regular airship service between Germany and Brazil.[20]
- May 23 – NC-4 with gold medals for completing the first transatlantic flight in 1919.[21]
- May 27 – A Tenerife Island.
June
- June 4 – F3W Apache
- June 5 – Just after takeoff from Boston, Massachusetts, for a flight to New York City with 15 people on board, the Colonial Air Transport Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor NC9675 noses down and crashes into the sea, coming to rest in 7 feet (2.1 meters) of water 60 yards (55 meters) from the breakwater. One of the passengers is killed and the aircraft is damaged beyond repair, but the other 12 passengers and both crew members survive.[22]
- June 13 – Making his 92nd crossing of the Andes carrying mail between Argentina and Chile for Aéropostale, French aviator Henri Guillaumet crashes his Potez 25 in bad weather at Laguna del Diamante near Mendoza, Argentina. He walks through three mountain passes before reaching a village and safety on June 19.
July
- July 12 – Flying a flares. The train stops only 400 yards (370 m) short of the burning trestle.[23]
- July 16-August 8 – The second International Tourist Aircraft Contest Fritz Morzik on the BFW M.23plane.
- July 19 – Record-holding aviator Frank Goldsborough dies in a crash in Vermont on his 20th birthday.
- July 20-August 1 – A 7,560 km (4,700 mi) race over Challenge 1930contest.
- July 23 – Aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss dies, aged 52.
- July 29 – The British airship R100 sets out on a test flight from the United Kingdom to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and back. She will arrive at Montreal 78 hours later, remain there for 12 days, then begin the return trip to the United Kingdom on August 13, arriving in London on August 16 after a flight of 57½ hours.[24]
August
- August 3 - The fighters to sink the retired protected cruiser Akashi with 4 kg (8.8 lb) practice bombs in Tokyo Bay.[25]
- August 8 - End of the Fritz Morzik.
- August 13 – Flying the continental United States, completing the flight in 12 hours 25 minutes 3 seconds. At the time, it is the fastest crossing of the United States ever made.[26]
- August 22 – Attempting to avoid a
- August 23 - The Ford National Reliability Air Tour starts in Chicago.
- August 25 - Eddie August Schneider sets the junior transcontinental air speed record. He flies from Westfield, New Jersey.
September
- September 1–2 – Flying the North Atlantic Ocean between the European and North Americanmainlands, covering either 5,850 or 6,200 km (3,640 or 3,850 mi), according to different sources, in 37 hours 18 minutes.
- September 3 – The Ford National Reliability Air Tour finishes in Chicago. Harry Russell takes first place, and Eddie August Schneider finishes in eight place, but wins the Great Lakes Trophy.
October
- October 1 – Western Air Express and Transcontinental Air Transport merge to form Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc.,[28] which in 1950 will be renamed Trans World Airlines.
- October 5 – The British Air Vice Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker; the Irish aviator and athlete Herbert Carmichael Irwin, who was the captain of R101; the noted British airship pilot and engineer George Herbert Scott; and British Secretary of State for Air Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson.
- October 7 – Upon the completion of the final game of the wire services, demonstrating that fast air courier services are feasible.
- October 9–10 – First flight by a Canadian, pilot Capt. J. Erroll Boyd (1891-1960), from North America (Harbour Grace, NL) to England, in the Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Maple Leaf (aka, Columbia), navigated by the American, Lieut. Harry Connor. This flight was also notable for transporting mail bearing a surcharged stamp as a commemorative overprint.[29]
- October 25 – Transcontinental and Western Air begins the first all-air coast-to-coast passenger service in the United States with regular passenger flights between New York, New York, and Los Angeles, California. The trip takes 30 hours and includes an overnight stop in Kansas City, Missouri.[28]
- October 30 – The Paris-Le Bourget Airport outside Paris to Croydon Airport in London. Three of the six people on board die.[30]
November
- November 3 – Brothers Thomas Elmer Braniff and Paul Revere Braniff found their second airline, Braniff Airways, Inc. It eventually will become Braniff International Airways.
- November 13 – Braniff Airways begins operations, using .
- November 21 – The
- November 24 – The Ford Motor Company Ford 5-AT-C Trimotor NX419H crashes on landing at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan, killing both people on board.[32]
December
- December 3 – A commercial airline flight arrives in .
- December 17 – The Junkers W 34 Bolivar makes the first international flight from Venezuela to Colombia to commemorate the centennial of the death of Simón Bolívar.[33]
First flights
- Aichi AB-2
- Arado Ar 64
- Avro 626
- Bellanca Aircruiser
- Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket[34]
- Farman F.141
- Focke-Wulf A 32
- Focke-Wulf A 33
- Kawasaki Type 92
- Nakajima E4N
- Nakajima Ki-6
- Northrop Alpha
- Pitcairn PA-8
- Polikarpov TB-2
- Potez 38
- Saro Cloud
- Texaco Eaglet, prototype of the Franklin PS-2
- Yokosuka K4Y
- Spring 1930 – RWD-4
January
- Potez 39
- January 13 – Farman F.300
- January 30 – Boeing Model 202, later redesignated Boeing XP-15[35]
February
- Boeing Model 205, later redesignated Boeing XF5B-1[35]
- Latécoère 340 F-AKDI
March
- Dornier Do Y
- March 30 – Polikarpov I-6
April
- RWD-3
- April 29 - Polikarpov I-5
May
- Mitsubishi K3M (Allied reporting name "Pine")[36]
- Berliner-Joyce XFJ-1[37]
- Cessna CR-2
- Curtiss XP-10[38]
- May 6 – Boeing Monomail
- May 16 – Blériot 110
- May 28 – Blackburn Segrave
June
- Curtiss XP-17 Hawk[39]
- June 12 – Handley Page H.P. 38, prototype of the Handley Page Heyford
- June 28 – Avro 621, prototype of the Avro Sea Tutor[40]
July
- Saunders A.7 Severn
- July 18 - Blackburn Sydney
August
- August 24 – Latécoère 380
September
- September 1 - Berliner-Joyce P-16
- September 12 - Taylor E-2
- September 24 - Short Rangoon
October
- PZL P.7
- October 5 – Junkers Ju 52
- October 10 – Short S.15 K.F.1, prototype of the Kawanishi H3K
- October 13 – Junkers Ju 52/1m
- October 16 – Saro A.21 Windhover ZK-ABW
- October 22 – Fairchild 100
November
- First week of November – Couzinet 20
- November 14 – Handley Page HP.42
- November 18 – Boeing Model 96, later redesignated Boeing XP-9[41]
- November 25 – Fairey Hendon
- November 27 – Bernard 80 GR
December
- Curtiss XP-21[42]
- Westland C.O.W. Gun Fighter
- December 22 - Tupolev ANT-6
Entered service
- Soviet Air Force
- Saro A17 Cutty Sark
January
- January 1 – Avro 618 Ten with Australian National Airways
May
- May 1 – Fighter Squadron 1 (VF-1B) aboard USS Saratoga (CV-3)[43]
July
- Levasseur PL.7 with French Naval Aviation aboard the aircraft carrier Béarn
November
- November 9 – Ford RR-4, a version of the Ford Trimotor, with the U.S. Navy.[44]
Retirements
May
- Curtiss TS-1 by the United States Navy[46]
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