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This well-documented event was the first flight verified by the Aéro-Club de France of a powered heavier-than-air machine in Europe and won the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize for the first officially observed flight greater than 25 m (82 ft). On 12 November 1906, Santos-Dumont set the first world record recognized by the Federation Aeronautique ...
10 March – Emil Aubrun makes the first night flights, in a Blériot XI at Villalugano, Argentina. 11 March – J. W. Dunne flies one of the first inherently stable aircraft, the Dunne D.5, at Eastchurch. 13 March – Paul Engelhard makes the first flight in Switzerland, flying a Wright biplane from a frozen lake at St Moritz
This is a timeline of aviation history, and a list of more detailed aviation timelines. The texts in the diagram are clickable links to articles. The texts in the diagram are clickable links to articles.
First helium-filled rigid airship to fly: was the USS Shenandoah on August 20, 1923, although it did not make a powered flight until September 24, 1923. [ 32 ] The Breitling Orbiter 3 in which the first non-stop balloon circumnavigation was achieved in 1999
First solo transatlantic flight and first non-stop fixed-wing aircraft flight between America and mainland Europe On 20–21 May 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh flew his Ryan monoplane (named Spirit of St. Louis ), 3,600 nautical miles (6,700 km), from Roosevelt Field, New York to Paris–Le Bourget Airport , in 33½ hours.
Vue du Pont de Sèvres, painted in 1908 by Henri Rousseau. The pioneer era of aviation was the period of aviation history between the first successful powered flight, generally accepted to have been made by the Wright Brothers on 17 December 1903, and the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.
The first flight by Orville Wright, of 120 feet (37 m) in 12 seconds, was recorded in a famous photograph. In the fourth flight of the same day, Wilbur Wright flew 852 feet (260 m) in 59 seconds. Modern analysis by Professor Fred E. C. Culick and Henry R. Rex (1985) has demonstrated that the 1903 Wright Flyer was so unstable as to be almost ...
During a flight from Almaza Airport outside Cairo, Egypt, to Baghdad, Iraq – one leg of a Christmas mail-and-passenger flight from Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Batavia in the Netherlands East Indies which prior to Cairo had made stops in Marseille, France; Rome, Italy; and Athens, Greece – the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ...