- 1908 in aviation
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in?=in aviation
cp=19th century
c=20th century
cf=21st century
yp1=1905
yp2=1906
yp3=1907
year=1908
ya1=1909
ya2=1910
ya3=1911
dp3=1870s
dp2=1880s
dp1=1890s
d=1900s
dn1=1910s
dn2=1920s
dn3=1930sThis is a list of
aviation -related events from1908 :Events
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United States Army announces plans to buy flying machines.January
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January 13 -Henry Farman wins theDeutsch-Archdeacon Prize for making a circular flight of convert|1|km. The flight lasts 1 minute and 28 seconds.March
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March 17 -AEA Red Wing is destroyed in a crash on its second flight.*
March 29 -Léon Delagrange makes the first recorded flight with a passenger, the well-known flierHenry Farman , atParis, France . The flight distance is convert|454|ft.May
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May 14 -Charles Furnas becomes the first passenger in an aeroplane in the United States, piloted byWilbur Wright . Wilbur Wright flew Charles W. Furnas for 22 seconds in the Wright 1905 Flyer, modified with seats for pilot and passenger. Shortly after,Orville Wright flew Furnas for four minutes.
*Henri Farman is reported [http://www.earlyaviators.com/epeltier.htm Early Aviators - Thérèse Peltier] ] to have flown with a Mlle P. Van Pottelsberghe in Ghent Belgium in late May. If correct she would be the first ever woman passenger in an aeroplane.June
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June 8 -Alliot Verdon Roe flies his first aircraft atBrooklands ,Surrey .
*June 28 -Jacob Ellehammer makes the first piloted, powered aeroplane flight inGermany .July
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July 4 -Glenn H. Curtiss is awarded the "Scientific American " trophy for a public flight of over 1 km atHammondsport . Curtiss flies 1,550 m (5,090 ft) in 1 minute and 42 seconds.
*July 8 -Thérèse Peltier officially becomes the first woman to fly in an aeroplane. She is a passenger on a flight made byLéon Delagrange atTurin . However, this flight may not have been fully controlled. [http://www.earlyaviators.com/edelagra.htm Early Aviators - Leon Delagrange] ] See also May and October.August
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August 8 - Wilbur Wright makes his first flights at the Hunaudieres racetrack atLe Mans ,France . The Wright Flyer used for this and later flights had been shipped toLe Havre by Orville the previous year. It had been seriously damaged by custom officials when it arrived in France and uncrated. Wilbur spent the whole summer of 1908 rebuilding the machine and getting it into flying condition. Wilbur's flights in this machine will have a profound effect on European aviation during the following months.
*August 21 - Wilbur Wright moves to Camp d'Auvours, convert|11|km east ofLe Mans , where all his flights for the remainder of the year will be based. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1908_in_aviation&action=edit§ion=8 U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission: Wilbur & Orville Wright "A Chronology"] ]eptember
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September 9 - Orville Wright flies 1 hour 3 minutes and 15 seconds.
*September 17 - LieutenantThomas Selfridge becomes the first person killed in a powered airplane and the first military aviation casualty when Orville Wright crashes his two-passenger plane during military tests atFort Myer in Virginia. Orville Wright is severely injured.
*Thérèse Peltier makes a flight of 200 metres at a height of approximately 2.5 meters at the Military Square inTurin ,Italy . Photos of Peltier with the aeroplane are published on 27 September. This is the first unofficial flight by a female aviator.October
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October 5 - Zeppelin-airship LZ IV destroyed by fire at Echterdingen.
*October 7 -Wilbur Wright flies with Mrs. Hart O. Berg [http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/berg.html Monash University - Aviation Biographys] ] as passenger at Camp d'Auvours. This is the first fully controlled flight with a woman passenger.
*October 14 -Henry Farman makes the first cross-country flight in a power-driven aeroplane, from Bouy to Reims convert|27|km in 20 minutes.
*October 16 -Samuel Cody makes the first generally recognised aeroplane flight in the UK in hisBritish Army Aeroplane No. 1 .
*October 18 -Wilbur Wright climbs to convert|115|m above Camp d'Auvours.November
*Horace, Eustace and Oswald Short found
Short Brothers , the first aircraft manufacturing company inEngland , inBattersea ,London .December
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December 18 -Wilbur Wright at Camp d'Auvours, 11 kilometres east of Le Mans. flies convert|99.8|km in 1 hour 54 minutes 2/5 sec. rising to 110 m (360 ft) - a new world record.
*December 31 -Wilbur Wright wins a prize of FF 20,000 fromMichelin for the longest flight of the year (a world record) - convert|123.2|km in 2 hours 18 minutes and 33 1/5 seconds from Camp d'Auvours.First flights
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March 12 -AEA Red Wing , flying from the surface ofKeuka Lake nearHammondsport, New York . Flight distance is convert|97.2|m but ends with the aircraft collapsing to the ground, leaving the pilot slightly bruised. This is the first public demonstration of a powered aircraft flight in the United States.May
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May 18 -AEA White Wing June
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June 8 -Roe I Biplane
*June 28 -AEA June Bug eptember
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September 5 -Goupy No.1 , the world's first triplaneOctober
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October 19 -Antoinette IV December
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December 6 -AEA Silver Dart Entered service
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