page_title: 1909 in aviation
hierarchical_section_title: 1909 in aviation
caption_attribution_description: English: John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara and his "First pig to fly", 1909.
context_page_description: This is a list of aviation-related events from 1909:
context_section_description: This is a list of aviation-related events from 1909:
caption: On November 4, 1909, as a joke to prove that pigs could fly, John Moore-Brabazon makes the first live cargo flight by airplane when he puts a small pig in a waste-paper basket tied to a wing-strut of his airplane.
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