1911 in aviation

1911 in aviation

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1911:

Events

January

* January 18 - Eugene Ely lands on the deck of the "USS Pennsylvania" anchored in San Francisco Bay, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.

February

* February 5 - the first undisputed aeroplane flight in New Zealand is made by Vivian Walsh at Auckland in the Howard Wright biplane "Manurewa".
* February 18 - the first airmail is carried by an aeroplane. Henri Pequet carries mail across the Jumna River, from Allahabad to Naini Junction, India.

March

* the Spanish Air Force is created as the "Aeronáutica militar Española", with four aircraft.
* March 23 - Louis Breguet carries 11 passengers a distance of 5 km (3.1 miles)

April

* April 1 - The first flying unit of the British Military, the Air Battalion Royal Engineers formed.
* April 12 - Pierre Prier makes the first non-stop flight from London to Paris

May

* May 8 - US Naval Aviation Service created and the Navy's first airplane, a Curtiss Model D, is ordered.
* May 31 - Andre Beaumont beats Roland Garros in the Paris to Rome air race, completing the 1,465 km (910 mile) course in 28 hours, 5 minutes.

July

* July 4 - First ever commercial cargo to be carried by an aircraft. The General Electric company paid £100 to have a case of electric lamps flown from Shoreham to Hove in England.

August

* August 29 - Hilda Hewlett becomes the first British woman to receive a pilot's licence.
* August - Harriet Quimby and Matilde Moisant become the first licensed female pilots in the United States.

eptember

* September 9 - the first British airmail flight is made. Gustav Hamel flies from Hendon to Windsor.
* September 15 - Édouard de Nié Port, one of the pre-eminent aeroplane designers and racing pilots of the era, and co-founder with his brother Charles of the French aircraft manufacturer Nieuport, is killed in a flying accident.
* September 23 - the first US airmail flight is made. Earle Ovington flies 9.7 km (6 miles) from Nassau Boulevard, New York to Mineola, Long Island

October

*October 19 - Eugene Ely dies in an aircrash.
*October 22 - First aircraft to be used in war, an Italian Army Blériot XI, flies from Tripoli to Azizia to spy on Turkish positions.
*October 24 - Orville Wright soars in a glider 9 minutes and 45 seconds over dunes near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
*October 31 - John Montgomery is fatally injured in a crash of his Evergreen glider near San Jose, California.

November

* November 1 - 2nd Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of the Italian Air Flotilla drops several small bombs on Turkish troops during the Italo-Turkish War. This was the first time bombs had been dropped from an aeroplane in war.
* November 5 - Calbraith Rodgers completes the first coast-to-coast airplane flight across the USA in the Vin Fiz Flyer - taking 49 days, with several crashes en-route.

First flights

April

* 1 April - Avro Type D

May

* May 17 - Blackburn Mercury


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