Evening star., 1928-12-23
MAJOR EVENTS IN IS YEARS
OF AVIATION ARE COMPILED
Calendar Briefly Reviews Development Of
Flying and Records Established by
Pioneers and Moderns.

airplane. A brief review of some of the
outstanding events in the quarter CEN
tury Of aeronautical development follows
1908.
December 17-Orville Wright made
the first successful airpiane flight at
Kitty Hawk. N. c., in an airplane built
by himself and his brother Wilbur.
1904.
September 15-Orville Wright made
the first complete circular flight with
an airplane. During the year the
Wrights made los successful flights.
1905.
The Wrights made so flights during
the year. 80 laps of their field at Day.
ton, Ohio, being made in single flight.
Up to this time no men but the WrightS
ever had flown in an airplane.
1906.
Aviation activity began in France.
The Wrights continued their expert
mental work. building new planes, and
began the work of commercializing
their invention.
October 26-Farman made his first
turn while in flight in Voisin plane.
April to December 6-Bleriot made
8 flights, the longest being 1878 feet.
On the last fight he made his first
turn in the air.
1908.
February 10-The United States Gov
eminent signed contract with the
Wrights for the first Army airplane.
August-Wilbur Wright began his se-
ries of famous flights at LIE Mans,
France.
September 21-Wilbur Wright estab-
liShed a new world endurance record,
flying / hour, 81 minutes and 25 Sec
onds, winning the Aero Club of France
prize.
September 9-Orville Wright at Fort
Myer, Va, began a series of public DEM
onstrations of the Army's first plane
before many notables.
September 1.-THE : first~fatal air.
plane accident occurred at Fort Myer,
Lieut.. Selfridge, Army Signal Corps,
being killed and Orville Wright injured.
1909.
July 25-Bleriot few across the Eng
lish Channel from Calais to Dover IN
% minutes.
August-The first international air
meet was held at Rheims, France, Glenn
Curtiss winning the Grand Prix ana
Paulhan making a record flight OF "a
miles
Governors Island to Grants Tomb ana
back over New York Harbor, with a
canoe strapped beneath his plane, max
ing the first amphibian airplane.
1910.
January IA new worlds altitude
record of 4,165 feet was established ny
Paulhan at an air meet at Los Angeles.
August 21-An overwater, nonstop
record was made by Clifford H. Harmon,
who flew Farman plane across Long
Island Sound, % miles in 80 minutes.
September 23-George Chavez new
across the Alps.
November THE first commercial
air transport flight was made when
Parmelee few from Dayton to Colum-
bus. Ohio, 65 miles. in Sc minutes, car
rying five bolts of silk.
1911.
June 27-Lincoln Beachey few over
Niagara Falls and down the Niagara
River.
June 30-Harry N. Atwood few from
Boston to this city.
August 14-25-Atwood few from st.
Louis to New York.
September 17-November 5-Calbraith
B. Rodgers few across the American
| Continent from New York to Califor-
MIA, 4,23l miles, in 40 days.
1912.
| October 16-Lieut. John Towers, u. S.
NJ, established a new duration record
of hours, 35 minutes and 10 seconds
| August 20-Lincoln Beachey set a
worlds altitude record Of IL ,642 feet at
| Chicago.
During this year the Army Air Force
was increased to IL planes and
! licensed pilots.
January 31-United States naval
pilots attempted the first night flying
March-The Turks used German
| airplane for the first time in battle
against the Bulgarians, with negligible
results.
August 17-ls-Harry Hawker flew
around the British Isles, 1,043 miles, ir
two and half days.
1914.
May 1s-The automatic. parachute
was invented.
May 29-The Langley plane, re
stored, was flown as a seaplane at Ham
mondsport, N. Y.
June 25-The duration record wa
raised to 18 hours by Basser, Germany
1915.
The airplane made its first successful
appearance as weapon of war.
April 3-The National Advisory Com
mittee for AeronauticS was created b.
President Wilson
1916.
November 20--Ruth Law made he
famous flight from Chicago to New
York in hours SIS minutes and 81
seconds.
| 1917.
September 20-Caleb Bragg set new
altitude record of 20,250 feet.
1918.
May 15-The first regular air mai
service in the world was inauguratet
between Washington and New York b.
Army pilots.
September 18-Capt. r. w. Schroede
reached $4,000 feet at Wright Field, |
world record.
1919.