1905 in aviation - Definition and Overview

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1905:

April

• April 27 - Sapper Moreton of the British Army's balloon section is lifted 2,600 ft (792 m) by a kite at Aldershot under the supervision of the kite's designer, Samuel Cody.

June

• June 6 - Gabriel Voisin flies along the River Seine in his float-glider towed by a motorboat.
• June 23 - Wright Flyer III first flight.

October

• 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 at Huffman Prairie in Ohio.
• October 14 - the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) is founded in Paris

November

• November 30 - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's LZ2 airship is damaged while attempting its first launch.

December

• Neil MacDermid is carried aloft in Canada by a large box kite named The Siamese Twins, designed by Alexander Graham Bell.

Events

• In 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 crashed in a later flight.
• The engineer Léger's helicopter lifts a person vertically into the air in Monaco.