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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]
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.
1911 Euler Schuldreidecker training pusher triplane; 1911 Farman Monoplane 2 seat; 1911 Farman HF.VI Militaire 2 seat pusher biplane; 1911 Farman HF.VII; 1911 Farman HF.X 3 seater pusher biplane; 1911 Farman HF.Xbis 3 seater pusher biplane; 1911 Farman MF.II staggered biplane (Maurice Farman) 1911 Fisk Monoplane; 1911 Fitch Biplane; 1911 ...
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.
John Joseph Montgomery (February 15, 1858 – October 31, 1911) was an American inventor, physicist, engineer, and professor at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, who is best known for his invention of controlled heavier-than-air flying machines.
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