1910 in aviation - Definition and Overview

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1910:

Events

• First night flights.
• Races between aeroplanes and cars are only won by racing cars.
• Hugo Junkers gets a patent for his thick wing/all-wing type aeroplane.

January

• First International Air Races in America. Held at Los Angeles.
• January 7, Frenchman Hubert Latham is the first pilot to climb to 1000 metres.

March

• March 10 - Emil Aubrun makes the first night flights, in a Blériot Type IX at Villalugano, Argentina.
• March 13 - Paul Engelhard makes the first flight in Switzerland, flying a Wright biplane from a frozen lake at St Moritz
• March 14 - Louis Paulhan flies 146 km in a straight route from Orleans to Trois.
• March 28 - Henri Fabre makes the first flights in a seaplane at Matigues, France

April

• The French Air Force is formed as its own command, with a total of five aircraft.

June

• June 2 - Charles Rolls makes the first successful return flight over the English Channel

July

• July 9, Frenchman Léon Morane sets a new speed record of 106 km/h.
• July 12 - Charles Rolls is killed in a crash at Bournemouth, becoming the first British aviation fatality

August

• first international aviation meeting is held at Reims in France.
• August 27 Frederick Baldwin and John McCurdy, using a Curtiss biplane, are the first pilots to send radio messages to the ground.

September

• September 23 - the Peruvian Geo Chavez flies the Blériot-monoplane over the Alps from Brig (Switzerland) to Domodossola (Italy) reaching a height of 2200 metres, but was killed in a crash landing.

October

• Romanian inventor Henri Coanda (1886-1972), constructed the first prototypical thermojet, in the world, named the Coanda-1910, exhibited at the International Aeronautical Show in Paris and tested near Paris.
• October 2 - the first mid-air collision takes place near Milan. Both pilots survive, but one is badly injured.

November

• November 14 - Eugene Ely takes off from a temporary platform erected over the bow of the light cruiser USS Birmingham, the first take-off from a ship.

December

• December 23 - Lt Theodore Ellyson of the United States Navy is assigned to flight training with the Curtiss company, making him the first naval aviator.

First flights

• July 29 - Bristol Boxkite