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1910 in aviation - Definition and Overview |
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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
April
- The French Air Force is formed as its own command, with a total of five aircraft.
June
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
December
First flights
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