1902 in aviation

1902 in aviation

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cp=19th Century
c=20th century
cf=21st century
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yp2=1900
yp3=1901
year=1902
ya1=1903
ya2=1904
ya3=1905
dp3=1870s
dp2=1880s
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d=1900s
dn1=1910s
dn2=1920s
dn3=1930s

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1902:

Events

*The Wright brothers fly their No. 3 Glider on over 700 flights, results lead directly to the construction of the Flyer.

January

*January 17 - Gustave Whitehead flies a motorized airplane with a boatshaped hull with wheels (so he could and did land on water as well as on the ground), rebuilt from his Whitehead Aeroplane No. 21 of the previous year on an 11 km (7 mile) flight and lands safely in the water close to the starting point so his helpers could pull it out of the water. Number 21 had a 20hp motor, Number 22 had a 40hp motor.

February

*February 4 - First balloon flight in Antarctica when Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton ascend to 800 feet (240 m) in a tethered hydrogen balloon to take the first Antarctic aerial photographs.
*February 4 - Future pilot Charles Lindbergh is born.

March

*Professor Erich von Drygalski's 1901-1903 German Antarctic Expedition uses a balloon to survey the Antarctic coast of Wilhelm II Land.

April

*April 30 - The St Louis Aeronautical Exposition opens in Missouri. A highlight is Octave Chanute launching a replica of his 1896 glider.


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