Two Spanish pilots are seriously wounded be rifle fire from Moroccan soldiers on the ground in Tangiers, dispelling the notion that airplanes present a target that is impossible to hit from the ground. He is promptly placed under house arrest for endangering government property. Roland Garros crosses the Mediterranean Sea, flying 512 miles in a Morane-Saulnier monoplane. The airline survives only until March, but it carries 1,024 passengers without a single mishap. This establishes the Wright brothers as the legal inventors of the airplane, as well as the historic inventors.
Flight tests continue into the summer.
Glenn Curtiss unveils the Curtiss Model J, a tractor biplane designed by B. Douglas Thomas . Thomas had formally been an engineer for Sopwith Aviation in England, and the Model J incorporates all the lastest advances in European biplane design. In reality, Curtiss has made over 30 major modifications to the Aerodrome to make it airworthy. The flights have no effect on the patent litigation. He received a 50,000-franc prize from the French government for his invention.