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Français : 1911 - Monoplans et biplans : Le monoplan Tellier mû par le moteur à soupapes concentriques Panhard & Levassor conçu par A. C. KREBS. English: 1911 - Monoplanes and biplanes: The Tellier monoplane powered with the Panhard & Levassor concentric valves engine designed by A. C. KREBS.
8 May – The U.S. Naval Aviation Service created and the U.S. Navy's first airplane, a Curtiss Model D, is ordered. 21 May – The French Minister of War, Henri Maurice Berteaux, a spectator at the start of the 1911 Paris to Madrid air race, suffers fatal injuries when a plane crashes while attempting to take off. [10]
1911 Albatros MZ2 doppeldecker; 1911 Albatros SZ1; 1911 Albatros-Pietschker Renndoppeldecker (Albatros SZ1) 1911 Antoinette military monoplane; 1911 Antoinette Monobloc; 1911 Arondel Monoplane; 1911 Artigala Argentino 1ro (Enrique Artigalá) 1911 Ask Monoplane; 1911 Asteria No.3 pusher biplane; 1911 Astra C biplane; 1911 Astra Concourse ...
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January 18 – Eugene Burton Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, marking the first time an aircraft lands on a ship. January 30 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first aeroplane rescue at sea, saving the life of John McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
Calbraith Perry Rodgers Jr. (January 12, 1879 – April 3, 1912) was an American aviation pioneer.He made the first transcontinental airplane flight across the U.S. from September 17, 1911, to November 5, 1911, with dozens of stops, both intentional and accidental.
This was the first time an aircraft had taken off from a ship. [4] On January 18, 1911, Ely landed a Model D aboard USS Pennsylvania. This was the first aircraft to land on a ship. Upon his election in November 1915, Congressman Orrin Dubbs Bleakley became the first government official to fly from his home state to Washington, D.C.
The Vin Fiz Flyer on display in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in 2012 Vin Fiz Flyer stamp (upper left) on an envelope postmarked 1911. In addition to the Vin Fiz endorsement, Mabel Rodgers used the flight to promote an airmail service, and sold special 25-cent postage stamps for items to be carried on the airplane. They were ...