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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1922:
Events
- Irish Air Corps formed at Baldonnel. First aircraft is a Martinsyde Type A
- The Persian Army forms an air department
- First commercial night flight between London and Paris.
- Hermann Oberth submits his dissertation, rejected as "too fantastic", which was published in 1923 as The Rocket to Planetary Spaces. It became a major work in space flight history.
March
April
- April 4 - The Colombian Ministry of War opens a flying school (the Escuela de Aviación) at Flandes.
- April 7 - A Daimler Airways de Havilland DH.18 collides with a Cie des Cgrands Express Aériens Farman Goliath over France. A total of seven people - everyone aboard the two aircraft - is killed in the first mid-air collision of two airliners.
- April 16 - taking advantage of the Treaty of Rapallo, a flying shcool for German pilots is set up at Lipetsk. By 1933, 450 German military pilots will have trained here.
May
- May 1 - Deruluft (Deutsche-Russische Luftverkehrs, "German-Russian Airlines") commences operations.
- May 15 - Instone Air Line commences flights between London and Brussels.
June
July
August
- Britain's Air Ministry issues its first requirement for a purpose-designed night fighter. Specification 25/22 will eventually be filled by the Hawker Woodcock.
- August 10 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Naples, Italy. Won by the only non-Italian competitor, H.C. Biard in a British Supermarine Sea Lion. Winning speed 234.5 km/h (145.7 mph).
- August 18 - Arthur Martens makes the first sailplane flight of over one hour at the Wasserkuppe. His aircraft, named Vampyr ("Vampire") is designed by Wolfgang Klemmperer.
- August 25 - Cpt Norman Macmillan and Geoffrey Mallins are rescued from the Bay of Bengal when their round-the-world attempt in a Fairey III is thwarted by engine failure.
September
- September 4 - Lt Jimmy Doolittle flies across the United States in under a day in a de Havilland DH.4. He takes 21 hours 19 minutes to fly from Pablo Beach, Florida to Rockwell Field, California.
- September 9 - Cpt Frank Barnard wins the first King's Cup air race, flying from England to Scotland and back in 6 hours 32 minutes in a de Havilland DH.4.
- September 20 - first flight over 200 mph (322 km/h) made by Sadi Lecointe in a Nieuport-Delage NiD 29.
- September 27 - the US Navy conducts the first large-scale torpedo bombing exercises. Eighteen Naval Aircraft Factory PTs attack three battleships and score 8 hits in 25 minutes.
October
- October 6 - Lt John Macready and Lt Oakely Kelley set a flight endurance record of 35 hours 18 minutes in a Fokker T-2.
- October 17 - Lt Virgil Griffin makes the first take-off from a US aircraft carrier in a Vought VE-7 from USS Langley
- October 20 - Lt Harold Harris makes the first parachute escape from a stricken aircraft, bailing out of a Loening PW-2 over Dayton, Ohio.
- October 26 - the first landing is made on USS Langley by Lt Cdr Geoffrey DeChevalier in a Aeromarine 39
November
December
- December 27 - the Hosho, Japan's first aircraft carrier is commissioned.
- December 31 - the first German aircraft flies over Britain since the end of World War I, a Deutsche Luft-Reederei Dornier Komet
First flights
March
July
August
October
November
Entered service
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