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1908 in aviation - Definition and Overview |
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1908:
Events
January - Henry Farman wins the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize for making a circular flight of over 1 km (0.6 miles).
May
- May 14 - Charles Furnas becomes the first passenger in an aeroplane, piloted by Wilbur Wright. First heavy-than-air passenger carrying flight. Wilbur Wright flew Charles W. Furnas for a distance of 2.5 miles in a Wright Model B.
June
July
- July 4 - Glenn H. Curtiss is awarded the Scientific American trophy for a public flight of over 1 km. Curtiss flies 1,550 m (5,090 ft).
- July 8 - Thérèse Peltier becomes the first woman to fly in an aeroplane. She is a passenger on a flight made by Lèon Delagrange at Turin.
September
- Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge became the first person killed in a powered airplane and the first military aviation casualty when Wilbur crashed his two-passenger plane during military tests at Fort Myer in Virginia.
- September 9, Orville Wright flies 1 hour 3 minutes and 15 seconds.
October
- October 5, the Zeppelin-airship LZ IV destroyed by fire at Echterdingen.
- October 14, Henry Farman makes the first cross-country flight in a power-driven aeroplane, from Bouy to Reims (27 km) in 20 minutes.
- October 16 - Samuel Cody makes the first generally recongised aeroplane flight in the UK in his British Army Aeroplane No. 1.
- October 18, Wilbur Wright climbs to 115 metres above Auvours.
December
First flights
March
May
June
December
Entered service
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