The flight lasts 12 seconds covering a distance of 120 feet. Wilbur Wright was the pilot and Charles Furnas the passenger. Orville Wright opens the first Wright Flying School in Montgomery, Alabama. The site later becomes Maxwell Air Force Base. The world's first scheduled airline service by the St Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line.
Flight begins with four aircraft, but only two aircraft complete the trip.
James H. Doolittle becomes the first to fly entirely by the use of instruments and radio aids from takeoff to landing without reference to the ground. Said he was flying from New York to California. The first practical helicopter, the VS-300, takes off piloted by Igor Sikorsky. The Boeing Stratoliner is the first airliner with a pressurized cabin. Aircraft can now fly up to 20,000 feet.