- 1905 in aviation
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yp2=1903
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year=1905
ya1=1906
ya2=1907
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d=1900s
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dn2=1920s
dn3=1930sThis is a list of
aviation -related events from1905 :Events
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Santa Clara, California Daniel Maloney flies for 20 minutes with a glider after he started from a balloon at a height of 4,000 ft (1,220 m). He crashes in a later flight.
* The engineerMaurice Stanislas Léger 's helicopter lifts a person vertically into the air inMonaco .
*U.S. Army Signal Corps transferred all balloon school activities toFort Omaha, Nebraska .March
*March 16-20 - Daniel Maloney is launched by balloon in a tandem-wing glider designed by John Montgomery and makes three successful flights at
Aptos, CA , the highest launch being at 3,000 feet with an 18 minute descent to a predetermined landing location.April
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April 27 -Sapper Moreton of theBritish Army 's balloon section is lifted 2,600 ft (792 m) by a kite atAldershot under the supervision of the kite's designer,Samuel Cody .
*April 29 - Daniel Maloney is launched by balloon in a tandem-wing glider designed by John Montgomery to an altitude of 4,000 feet before release and gliding flight and landing at a predetermined location as part of a large public demonstration of aerial flight atSanta Clara, California .June
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June 6 -Gabriel Voisin flies along theRiver Seine in his float-glider towed by a motorboat.
*June 23 - First flight ofWright Flyer III .July
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July 14 - Orville Wright has a serious crash with Wright Flyer III, upon which the Wright Brothers radically alter the aircraft. The front rudder is mainly the culprit for the Flyer's insistent pitching.
*July 18 - Daniel Maloney makes a launch in a tandem-wing glider designed by John Montgomery atSanta Clara, California . However, a balloon cable damages the glider and upon release Maloney and the aircraft fall uncontrolled to the ground, leading to Maloney's death.eptember
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September - The Wright Brothers resume flight experiments with the re-designed Flyer III with performance of the airplane immediately in the positive. Smooth controlled flights lasting over 20 minutes now occur.October
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October 5 -Wilbur Wright makes a flight of 24.2 miles (38.9 km) in Flyer III. The flight lasts for almost 39:23 minutes atHuffman Prairie inDayton, Ohio .
*October 14 - TheFédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) is founded inParis .November
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November 30 - CountFerdinand von Zeppelin 's LZ2airship is damaged while attempting its first launch.December
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Neil MacDermid is carried aloft inCanada by a largebox kite named "The Siamese Twins ", designed byAlexander Graham Bell .References
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