- 1922 in aviation
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yp2=1920
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year=1922
ya1=1923
ya2=1924
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dn3=1950sThis is a list of
aviation -related events from1922 :Events
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Irish Air Corps formed at Baldonnel Aerodrome. First aircraft is aMartinsyde Type A
* ThePersian Army forms an air department
* First commercial night flight betweenLondon andParis .
*Hermann Oberth submits his dissertation, rejected as "too fantastic", which was published in1923 as "The Rocket to Planetary Spaces". It became a major work inspaceflight history.March
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March 13 - Portuguese pilots CptGago Coutinho and CptSacadura Cabral leaveLisbon to attempt the first crossing of theSouth Atlantic by air. They arrive inBrazil onJune 16 , in the thirdFairey III they use for the trip.
*March 20 - TheUS Navy commissions its firstaircraft carrier , a converted collier, the USS "Langley".April
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April 4 - TheColombia n Ministry of War opens a flying school (the "Escuela de Aviación") atFlandes .
*April 7 - ADaimler Airway de Havilland DH.18 collides with aCompanie des Grands Express Aériens Farman Goliath overFrance . All seven people - everyone aboard the two aircraft - are killed in the first mid-air collision of twoairliner s.
*April 16 - taking advantage of theTreaty of Rapallo , a flying school for German pilots is set up atLipetsk . By 1933, 450 German military pilots will have trained here.May
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May 1 -Deruluft ("Deutsche-Russische Luftverkehrs", "German-Russian Airlines") commences operations.
*May 15 -Instone Air Line commences flights between London and Brussels.June
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June 16 -Henry Berliner demonstrates a primitivehelicopter to the US Army.July
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July 1 - the US Navy orders the still-under-construction battlecruisers USS "Lexington" and USS "Saratoga" to be completed as aircraft carriers.
*July 10 - The Aircraft Development Corporation is incorporated in Michigan. Later they change their name to theDetroit Aircraft Corporation .August
* Britain's
Air Ministry issues its first requirement for a purpose-designednight fighter . Specification 25/22 will eventually be filled by theHawker Woodcock .
*August 10 -Schneider Trophy race flown atNaples ,Italy . Won by the only non-Italian competitor, H.C. Biard in a BritishSupermarine Sea Lion II . Winning speed 234.5 km/h (145.7 mph).
*August 18 -Arthur Martens makes the firstsailplane flight of over one hour at theWasserkuppe . His aircraft, named "Vampyr " ("Vampire") is designed byWolfgang Klemmperer .
*August 25 - Cpt Norman MacMillan andGeoffrey Mallins are rescued from theBay of Bengal when their round-the-world attempt in a Fairey III is thwarted by engine failure.eptember
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September 4 - LtJimmy Doolittle flies across theUnited States in under a day in ade Havilland DH.4 . He takes 21 hours 19 minutes to fly fromPablo Beach ,Florida toRockwell Field ,California .
*September 9 - Cpt Frank Barnard wins the firstKing's Cup Race air race, flying from England to Scotland and back in 6 hours 32 minutes in a de Havilland DH.4.
*September 20 - first flight over 200 mph (322 km/h) made bySadi Lecointe in aNieuport-Delage NiD 29 .
*September 27 - the US Navy conducts the first large-scale torpedo bombing exercises. EighteenNaval Aircraft Factory PT s attack three battleships and score 8 hits in 25 minutes.October
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October 6 - LtJohn Macready and LtOakely Kelley set a flight endurance record of 35 hours 18 minutes in aFokker T-2 .
*October 17 - LtVirgil Griffin makes the first take-off from a US aircraft carrier in aVought VE-7 from USS "Langley"
*October 20 - LtHarold Harris makes the firstparachute escape from a stricken aircraft, bailing out of aLoening PW-2 over Dayton,Ohio .
*October 26 - the first landing is made on USS "Langley" by Lt CdrGeoffrey DeChevalier in anAeromarine 39 November
* the 7th "
Salon d'Aéronautique " is held inParis
*November 2 -Qantas begins its first scheduled flights, betweenCharleville, Queensland andCloncurry, Queensland .
*November 11 -Etienne Oehmichen flies 525 m (1,722 ft) in a helicopter.
*November 12 - Japan's firstairmail service commences, linking Sakai,Osaka andTokushima .
*November 19 -Malert ("Magyar Legiforgalmi") is formed, a fore-runner of MALÉV Hungarian Airlines.December
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December 27 - the "Hōshō", Japan's first aircraft carrier is commissioned.
*December 31 - the first German aircraft flies over Britain since the end ofWorld War I , aDeutsche Luft-Reederei Dornier Komet First flights
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January 3 -Aero A.10 March
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March 26 -de Havilland DH.34 July
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Bristol Racer August
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August 22 -Vickers Victoria October
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October 13 -Curtiss R-6 November
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November 18 -Dewoitine D.1
*November 24 -Vickers Virginia
*November 28 -Fairey Flycatcher Entered service
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Vickers Vernon with theRoyal Air Force .
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