1910 in aviation

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1910:

Events

*First night flights.
*Races between aeroplanes and cars are only won by racing cars.
*Hugo Junkers gets a patent for his thick wing/all-wing type aeroplane.

January

* First International Air Races in America. Held at Los Angeles.
* january 4, Leon Delagrange is killed at Pau after wings on Bleriot collapse.
* January 7, Frenchman Hubert Latham is the first pilot to climb to 1000 metres.

March

* March 8 - Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman in the world to receive a pilot's licence.
* March 10 - Emil Aubrun makes the first night flights, in a Blériot Type IX at Villalugano, Argentina.
* March 13 - Paul Engelhard makes the first flight in Switzerland, flying a Wright biplane from a frozen lake at St Moritz
* March 14 - Louis Paulhan flies 146 km in a straight route from Orleans to Trois.
* March 28 - Henri Fabre makes the first flights in a seaplane at Matigues, France

April

* The French Air Force is formed as its own command, with a total of five aircraft.

June

* June 2 - Charles Rolls makes the first successful return flight over the English Channel
* June 17 - Romanian engineer and inventor Aurel Vlaicu flies his first airplane, "Vlaicu I"

July

* July 5 - Bert Pither is reputed to have flown the first metal-framed aircraft at Riverton, New Zealand
* July 9, Frenchman Léon Morane sets a new speed record of 106 km/h.
* July 12 - Charles Rolls is killed in a crash at Bournemouth, becoming the first British aviation fatality

August

* August 27 Frederick Baldwin and John McCurdy, using a Curtiss biplane, are the first pilots to send radio messages to the ground.

eptember

* September 6 - Blanche Stuart Scott makes the first solo airplane flight by a woman in the United States subsequently recognized by the Early Birds of Aviation.
* September 16 - Bessica Raiche makes the first solo airplane flight by a woman in the United States to be accredited at the time by the Aeronautical Society of America.
* September 23 - the Peruvian Geo Chavez flies the Blériot-monoplane over the Alps from Brig (Switzerland) to Domodossola (Italy) reaching a height of 2200 metres, but was killed in a crash landing.

October

* Romanian inventor Henri Coandă (1886-1972), built the first thermojet prototype, named the Coandă-1910; he exhibited it at the International Aeronautic Salon in Paris, and tested it at the airport in Issy-les-Moulineaux.
* October 2 - the first mid-air collision takes place near Milan. Both pilots survive, but one is badly injured.
* October 11 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first man who served as U.S. President to fly in an airplane (term ended in 1909).
* October 14 first confirmed flight over Norway by Carl Cederström.

November

* November 14 - Eugene Ely takes off from a temporary platform erected over the bow of the light cruiser "USS Birmingham", the first take-off from a ship.

December

* 16 December - Henri Coandă's plane was the first jet to fly when unexpectedly was airborne when testing the engine.
* 21 December - Hélène Dutrieu became the first winner of the Coupe Femina (Femina Cup) for a non-stop flight of 167 kilometers in 2 hours 35 minutes
* December 23 - Lt Theodore Ellyson of the United States Navy is assigned to flight training with the Curtiss company, making him the first naval aviator.

First flights

* July 29 - Bristol Boxkite