NOTABLE AVIATION RECORDS TO CLOSE OF 1910
December 17, 1903—Wilbur Wright with biplane, at Kitty Hawk, N. C., makes the first successful flight by man with power-propelled machine, a distance of 852 feet, in 59 seconds.
November 9, 1904—Wilbur Wright with biplane, at Dayton, O., flies 3 miles in 4 minutes and 30 seconds. (He and Orville made upward of 100 unrecorded flights in that year.)
September 26, 1905—Wilbur Wright with biplane “White Flier,” at Dayton, O., flies 11 miles in 18 minutes and 9 seconds.
September 29, 1905—Orville Wright, with “White Flier,” at Dayton, O., flies 12 miles in 19 minutes and 55 seconds.
October 3, 1905—Wilbur Wright, with “White Flier” at Dayton, O., flies 15 miles in 25 minutes and 5 seconds.
October 4, 1905—Orville Wright with biplane “White Flier,” at Dayton, O., flies 21 miles in 33 minutes and 17 seconds.
October 5, 1905—Wilbur Wright with “White Flier,” at Dayton, O., flies 24 miles in 38 minutes. (He made many unrecorded flights in that year.)
August 22, 1906—A. Santos-Dumont with biplane at Bagatelle, France, made his first public flight with an aeroplane, hardly more than rising clear of the ground.
September 14, 1906—Santos-Dumont with biplane, at Bagatelle, flies for 8 seconds.
Santos-Dumont flying at Bagatelle in his cellular biplane.
October 24, 1906—Santos-Dumont with biplane, at Bagatelle, flies 160 feet in 4 seconds.
November 13, 1906—Santos-Dumont with biplane, at Bagatelle, flies 722 feet in 21 seconds. This feat is recorded as the first aeroplane flight made in Europe.
March 16, 1907—Leon Delagrange with first Voisin biplane, at Bagatelle, flies 30 feet.
August 6, 1907—Louis Bleriot with a Langley machine, at Issy, France, flies 470 feet.
October 15, 1907—Henry Farman with biplane, at Issy, flies 937 feet in 21 seconds.
October 19, 1907—R. Esnault-Pelterie with monoplane, at Buc, France, makes short flights.
October 26, 1907—Farman with biplane, at Issy, flies 2,529 feet in a half circle, in 52 seconds.
November 17, 1907—Santos-Dumont with biplane, at Issy, makes several short flights, the longest being about 500 feet.
November 21, 1907—Santos-Dumont with monoplane at Bagatelle, makes several short flights, the longest being about 400 feet.
January 13, 1908—Farman with biplane, at Issy, makes the first flight in a circular course—3,279 feet in 1 minute and 28 seconds.
March 12, 1908—F. W. Baldwin with biplane “Red Wing,” at Hammondsport, N. Y., flies 319 feet.
March 21, 1908—Farman with biplane, at Issy, flies 1.24 miles in 3 minutes and 31 seconds.
March 29, 1908—Delagrange with biplane, at Ghent, Belgium, makes first recorded flight with one passenger (Farman), 453 feet.
April 11, 1908—Delagrange with biplane at Issy, flies 2.43 miles in 6 minutes and 30 seconds, winning the Archdeacon cup.
May 18, 1908—J. A. D. McCurdy with biplane “White Wing” at Hammondsport, flies 600 feet.
May 27, 1908—Delagrange with biplane, at Rome, in the presence of the King of Italy, flies 7.9 miles in 15 minutes and 25 seconds.
The early Voisin biplane flown by Farman at Issy.
May 30, 1908—Farman with biplane, at Ghent, flies 0.77 miles with one passenger (Mr. Archdeacon).
June 8, 1908—Esnault-Pelterie with monoplane, at Buc, flies 0.75 miles, reaching an altitude of 100 feet.
June 22, 1908—Delagrange with biplane, at Milan, Italy, flies 10.5 miles in 16 minutes and 30 seconds.
July 4, 1908—Glenn H. Curtiss with biplane, at Hammondsport, flies 5,090 feet, in 1 minute and 42 seconds, winning Scientific American cup.
The “June Bug” flown by Curtiss winning the Scientific American cup, July 4, 1908.
July 4, 1908—Bleriot with monoplane, at Issy, flies 3.7 miles in 5 minutes and 47 seconds, making several circles.
July 6, 1908—Farman in biplane, at Ghent, flies 12.2 miles in 19 minutes and 3 seconds, winning the Armengand prize.
July 8, 1908—Delagrange with biplane, at Turin, Italy, flies 500 feet with the first woman passenger ever carried on an aeroplane—Mrs. Peltier.
August 9, 1908—Wilbur Wright with biplane, at Le Mans, France, makes several short flights to prove the ease of control of his machine.
August 8, 1908—L. F. Ferber with biplane, at Issy, makes first trial flights.
September 6, 1908—Delagrange with biplane, at Issy, flies 15.2 miles in 29 minutes and 52 seconds, beating existing French records.
September 8, 1908—Orville Wright with biplane, at Fort Myer, Va., flies 40 miles in 1 hour and 2 minutes, rising to 100 feet.
September 9, 10, 11, 1908—Orville Wright with biplane, at Fort Myer, makes several flights, increasing in duration from 57 minutes to 1 hour ten minutes and 24 seconds.
September 12, 1908—Orville Wright with biplane, at Fort Myer, flies 50 miles in 1 hour, 14 minutes and 20 seconds, the longest flight on record.
September 12, 1908—Orville Wright with biplane, at Fort Myer, flies for 9 minutes and 6 seconds with one passenger (Major Squier), making a new record.
September 17, 1908—Orville Wright with biplane, at Fort Myer, flies 3 miles in 4 minutes, with Lieutenant Selfridge. The machine fell: Selfridge was killed and Wright severely injured.
September 19, 1908—L. F. Ferber with biplane, at Issy, flies 1,640 feet.
September 21, 1908—Wilbur Wright with biplane, at Auvours, flies 41 miles in 1 hour and 31 minutes.
September 25, 1908—Wilbur Wright with biplane, at Le Mans, France, flies 11 minutes and 35 seconds, with one passenger, making a new record.
October 3, 1908—Wilbur Wright with biplane, at Le Mans, France, flies 55 minutes and 37 seconds, with one passenger, making new record.
October 6, 1908—Wilbur Wright with biplane, at Le Mans, flies 1 hour 4 minutes and 26 seconds, with one passenger, breaking all records.
October 10, 1908—Wilbur Wright with biplane, at Auvours, flies 46 miles in 1 hour and 9 minutes, with one passenger (Mr. Painleve). Also carried 35 others on different trips, one at a time.
October 21, 1908—Bleriot with monoplane, at Toury, France, flies 4.25 miles in 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
October 30, 1908—Farman with biplane at Chalons, France, makes a flight across country to Rheims—17 miles in 20 minutes.
October 31, 1908—Farman with biplane, at Chalons, flies 23 minutes, reaching a height of 82 feet.
October 31, 1908—Bleriot with monoplane, at Toury, flies 8.7 miles to Artenay, in 11 minutes, lands, and returns to Toury.
December 18, 1908—Wilbur Wright with biplane, at Auvours, flies 62 miles in 1 hour and 54 minutes, rising to 360 feet—making a world record.
December 31, 1908—Wilbur Wright with biplane, at Le Mans, flies 76.5 miles in 2 hours 18 minutes and 53 seconds, making a new world record, and winning the Michelin prize. The distance traversed (unofficial) is claimed to have been actually over 100 miles.
January 28, 1909—Moore-Brabazon with biplane, at Chalons, flies 3.1 miles, in practice with a Voison machine.
February 14, 1909—Legagneux with biplane, at Mourmelon, France, flies 1.2 miles, and in a second flight of 6.2 miles (10 kilometres), traces two circles.
February 22, 1909—S. F. Cody with biplane, at Aldershot, England, flies 1,200 feet in a 12-mile wind.
February 23, 1909—J. A. D. McCurdy, with the biplane “Silver Dart,” at Baddeck, Cape Breton, flies 2,640 feet.
February 24, 1909—McCurdy, with the biplane “Silver Dart,” at Baddeck, flies 4.5 miles.
February 24, 1909—Moore-Brabazon, with biplane, at Issy, flies 1.2 miles, tracing two circles.
February 28, 1909—Moore-Brabazon made several flights at Issy.
March 8, 1909—McCurdy, with biplane “Silver Dart,” at Baddeck, made five flights, the longest about 8 miles in 11 minutes and 15 seconds.
March 10, 1909—Santos-Dumont, with monoplane “Libellule,” at Bagatelle, flies 1,300 feet.
March 11, 1909—W. J. Richardson with a new form of aeroplane, at Dayton, O., flies for 38 minutes, rising to a height of over 300 feet.
March 11, 1909—McCurdy with biplane “Silver Dart,” at Baddeck, flies 19 miles in 22 minutes.
March 17, 1909—Count de Lambert (pupil of Wilbur Wright) made his first flight alone in biplane, at Pau, France. He remained in the air 3 minutes.
March 18, 1909—McCurdy, with biplane “Silver Dart,” at Baddeck, flies 16 miles, completing a record of an even 1,000 miles in the air within a period of 10 months.
March 18, 1909—F. W. Baldwin with biplane “Silver Dart,” at Baddeck, made a short flight.
March 20, 1909—Wilbur Wright, with biplane, at Pau, succeeds in rising from the ground without the starting device previously used. He makes several flights.
March 24, 1909—Count de Lambert with biplane, at Pau, flies 15.6 miles in 27 minutes and 11 seconds.
April 10, 1909—Santos-Dumont with monoplane “Demoiselle,” at St. Cyr, France, flies 1.2 miles.
April 13, 1909—Count de Lambert with biplane, at Pau, flies for 1 minute and 30 seconds, with one passenger (Leon Delagrange).
April 16, 1909—Wilbur Wright with biplane, at Rome, Italy, made many flights, taking up many passengers, one at a time.
April 27, 1909—Legagneux with Voisin biplane, at Vienna, flies 2.5 miles in 3 minutes and 26 seconds.
April 28, 1909—Lieutenant Mario Calderara (pupil of Wilbur Wright) with biplane, at Rome, made his first public flight, remaining in the air 10 minutes.
April 30, 1909—Moore-Brabazon with biplane, in England, flies 4.5 miles.
May 14, 1909—S. F. Cody, with the army biplane, at Aldershot, flies 1 mile.
May 19, 1909—Hubert Latham, with Antoinette monoplane, at Chalons, flies 1,640 feet.
May 20, 1909—Paul Tissandier (pupil of Wilbur Wright) with biplane at Pau, flies 35.7 miles.
May 23, 1909—Delagrange, with biplane, at Juvissy, flies 3.6 miles in 10 minutes and 18 seconds, winning the Lagatineri prize.
May 23, 1909—Henri Rougier, with biplane, at Juvissy, flies 18.6 miles (30 kilometres).
May 30, 1909—Bleriot, with monoplane at Issy, flies 8.7 miles.
June 5, 1909—Latham, with monoplane, at Chalons, flies for 1 hour 7 minutes and 37 seconds in wind and rain.
June 6, 1909—Latham, with monoplane, at Juvissy, flies 10 miles across country.
June 12, 1909—Latham, with monoplane, at Juvissy, flies 30 miles in 39 minutes, winning the Goupy prize.
June 12, 1909—Delagrange, with biplane, at Juvissy, makes cross country flight of 3.7 miles.
June 12, 1909—Bleriot, with monoplane, at Juvissy, flies 984 feet, with two passengers—Santos-Dumont and Fournier.
June 13 1909—Ferber, with Voisin biplane, at Juvissy, flies 3.1 miles in 5 minutes and 30 seconds.
June 19, 1909—Santos-Dumont, with monoplane, at Issy, makes several flights.
July 4, 1909—Roger Sommer with biplane, at Chalons, flies 3.75 miles on Farman machine.
July 10, 1909—Louis Paulhan, with biplane, at Douai, France, makes his first flight—1.25 miles.
July 13, 1909—Curtiss, with biplane, at Mineola, L. I., flies 1.5 miles in 3 minutes.
July 13, 1909—Bleriot, with monoplane, at Mondesir, makes a flight of 26 miles across country in 44 minutes and 30 seconds.
July 15, 1909—Paulhan with biplane, at Douai, flies for 1 minute and 17 seconds, soaring to an altitude of 357 feet.
July 17, 1909—Orville Wright, with biplane, at Fort Myer, flies 16 minutes and 40 seconds, at a speed of 40 miles an hour.
July 17, 1909—Curtiss, with biplane, at Mineola, makes 15 miles in 21 minutes, describing circles in both directions, as in the figure 8.
July 18, 1909—Curtiss, with biplane, at Hempstead Plains, L. I., flies 29½ miles in 52 minutes and 30 seconds, a flight exceeded only by the Wrights, in America, and Bleriot, Latham, and Paulhan, in Europe.
July 18, 1909—Farman, with biplane, at Chalons, flies for 1 hour and 23 minutes, making his first long flight.
July 18, 1909—Sommer, with biplane, at Chalons, makes his longest flight—1 hour and 40 minutes.
July 19, 1909—Latham, with monoplane, at Calais, France, makes his first attempt to cross the Channel to Dover. He flies 11 miles, and then his machine falls into the sea.
July 19, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Douai, makes a cross-country flight of 12.1 miles in 22 minutes and 53 seconds.
July 20, 1909—Orville Wright, with biplane, at Fort Myer, flies 1 hour and 20 minutes.
July 21, 1909—Orville Wright, with biplane, at Fort Myer, flies 1 hour and 29 minutes.
July 21, 1909—E. Lefebvre, with biplane, at La Haye, France, flies 2 miles.
July 21, 1909—S. F. Cody, with biplane, at Aldershot, flies 4 miles.
July 23, 1909—Farman, with biplane, at Chalons, makes a cross-country flight to Suippes—40 miles in 1 hour and five minutes.
July 23, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Douai, flies 43.5 miles in 1 hour 17 minutes and 19 seconds.
July 24, 1909—Curtiss in biplane, at Hempstead Plains, flies 25 miles in 52 minutes and 30 seconds, winning the Scientific American cup the second time.
July 25, 1909—Bleriot, with monoplane, at Calais, flies to Dover, England, across the English Channel—32 miles in 37 minutes.
July 27, 1909—Orville Wright, with biplane, at Fort Myer, flies 1 hour and 13 minutes, with one passenger, securing acceptance of Wright machine by U. S. Government on the duration specifications.
July 27, 1909—Latham, with monoplane, at Calais, flies 20 miles in a second attempt to cross the English Channel. When near Dover the machine fell.
July 27, 1909—Sommer, with biplane, at Chalons, flies to Vadenay and back—25 miles in 1 hour 23 minutes and 30 seconds.
July 30, 1909—Orville Wright, with biplane, at Fort Myer, established a world record with one passenger in a cross-country flight to Shuter’s Hill and back—about 10 miles in 14 minutes and 40 seconds, a speed of about 42 miles an hour—winning a bonus of $25,000 from the U. S. Government.
August 1, 1909—Sommer, with biplane, at Chalons, flies 1 hour 50 minutes and 30 seconds, at an average height of 80 feet, over a distance estimated at 70 miles, surpassing all French records.
August 2, 1909—McCurdy, with a new type of machine, at Petawawa, makes several flights.
August 2, 1909—F. W. Baldwin, with biplane, at Petawawa, makes several short flights.
August 2, 1909—Sommer, with biplane, at Chalons, flies to Suippes—9 miles, at the rate of 45 miles an hour.
August 4, 1909—Sommer, with biplane, at Chalons, in the effort to beat Wilbur Wright’s record, flies for 2 hours 0 minutes and 10 seconds (Wright’s record flight was 2 hours 20 minutes and 23 seconds, made on December 31, 1908).
August 5, 1909—E. Bunau-Varilla, with Voisin biplane, at Chalons, flies for 15 minutes.
August 6, 1909—Legagneux, with biplane, at Stockholm, flies with one passenger, 3,280 feet.
August 6, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Dunkerque, France, flies for 18 minutes and 20 seconds, reaching an altitude of 200 feet.
August 7, 1909—Paulhan, with Voisin biplane, at Dunkerque, flies 23 miles in 33 minutes.
August 7, 1909—Sommer, with Voisin biplane, at Chalons, flies for 2 hours 27 minutes and 15 seconds, making new world record for duration.
August 13, 1909—Charles F. Willard, with biplane, at Hempstead Plains, made the longest cross-country flight on record for America—about 12 miles in 19 minutes and 30 seconds. The breaking of his engine caused him to come down. He landed without mishap.
August 22, 1909—Sommer, with biplane, at Rheims, France, flies 1 hour 19 minutes and 30 seconds.
August 22, 1909—Legagneux, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 6.2 miles in 9 minutes and 56 seconds, winning third prize for speed over course of 10 kilometres.
August 22, 1909—Tissandier, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 18.6 miles in 29 minutes. (He won with this record the third prize for speed over 30 kilometres.)
August 22, 1909—E. Bunau-Varilla, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 6.2 miles in 13 minutes and 30 seconds. (With this record he won the thirteenth prize for speed over course of 10 kilometres.)
August 23, 1909—Delagrange, with monoplane, at Rheims, flies 6.2 miles in 11 minutes and 4 seconds. (He won the tenth prize for speed over 10 kilometres.)
August 23, 1909—Curtiss, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 6.2 miles in 8 minutes and 35 seconds—a speed of 42.3 miles an hour—beating the record for speed over course of 10 kilometres.
August 23, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 18.6 miles in 38 minutes and 12 seconds, reaching an altitude of 295 feet.
August 23, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 34.8 miles in an endurance test.
August 25, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 82 miles in 2 hours 43 minutes and 25 seconds. (With this record he won the third prize for duration of flight.)
August 25, 1909—Curtiss, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 6.2 miles in 8 minutes and 44 seconds, again reducing the time for 10 kilometres.
August 25, 1909—Bleriot, with monoplane, at Rheims, flies 6.2 miles in 8 minutes and 4 seconds, making a new record for speed over the course of 10 kilometres.
August 26, 1909—Curtiss, in biplane, at Rheims, flies 19 miles in 29 minutes. (With this record he won the tenth prize for duration of flight.)
August 26, 1909—Count de Lambert, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 72 miles in 1 hour and 52 minutes. (With this record he won the fourth prize for duration of flight.)
August 26, 1909—Latham, with monoplane, at Rheims, flies 96.5 miles in 2 hours 17 minutes and 21 seconds. (With this record he won the second prize for duration of flight.)
August 27, 1909—Farman, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 112 miles in 3 hours 4 minutes and 57 seconds. (This record won for him the first prize for duration of flight.)
Latham flying in his Antoinette at Rheims. To view this properly the picture should be held overhead.
August 27, 1909—Latham, with monoplane, at Rheims, flies to an altitude of 508 feet. (With this record he won first prize for altitude.)
August 27, 1909—Delagrange, with monoplane, at Rheims, flies 31 miles. (With this record he won the eighth prize for duration of flight.)
August 27, 1909—Sommer, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 37 miles. He won the seventh prize for distance.
August 27, 1909—Tissandier, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 69 miles. (This record won for him the sixth prize for distance.)
August 27, 1909—Lefebvre, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 12.4 miles in 20 minutes and 47 seconds, exhibiting great daring and skill. (He was fined for “recklessness.”)
August 27, 1909—Bleriot, with monoplane, at Rheims, flies 25 miles in 41 minutes. (This record won for him the ninth prize for distance flown.)
August 28, 1909—Lefebvre, with biplane, at Rheims, makes a spectacular flight for 11 minutes with one passenger.
August 28, 1909—Curtiss, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 12.4 miles in 15 minutes and 56 seconds, winning the Gordon Bennett cup.
August 28, 1909—Bleriot, with monoplane, at Rheims, flies 6.2 miles in 7 minutes and 48 seconds. (With this record he won the first prize for speed over course of 10 kilometres.)
August 29, 1909—Farman, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 6.2 miles with two passengers, in 10 minutes and 30 seconds, winning a prize.
August 29. 1909—Curtiss, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 18.6 miles in 23 minutes and 30 seconds. (With this record he won the first prize for speed over course of 30 kilometres.)
August 29, 1909—Curtiss, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 6.2 miles in 7 minutes and 51 seconds, winning the second prize for speed over course of 10 kilometres.
August 29, 1909—Rougier, with biplane, at Rheims, rises to a height of 180 feet, winning the fourth prize for altitude.
August 29, 1909—E. Bunau-Varilla, with biplane, at Rheims, flies 18.6 miles in 38 minutes and 31 seconds. (With this record he won the eighth prize for speed over course of 30 kilometres.)
August 29, 1909—Orville Wright, with biplane, at Berlin, makes several short flights.
August 29, 1909—S. F. Cody, with biplane, at Aldershot, flies 10 miles with one passenger.
September 4, 1909—Orville Wright, with biplane, at Berlin, flies for 55 minutes.
September 6, 1909—Sommer, with biplane, at Nancy, France, flies 25 miles in 35 minutes. He takes up a number of passengers; one at a time.
September 7, 1909—Lefebvre, with biplane, at Juvissy, is killed by the breaking of his machine in the air after he had flown 1,800 feet.
September 8, 1909—Orville Wright, with biplane, at Berlin, flies 17 minutes with one passenger—Captain Hildebrandt.
September 8, 1909—S. F. Cody, with biplane, at Aldershot, flies to Farnborough and back—46 miles in 1 hour and 3 minutes. This is the first recorded cross-country flight in England.
September 9, 1909—Orville Wright, with biplane, at Berlin, flies for 15 minutes with one passenger—Captain Englehardt.
September 9, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Tournai, Belgium, flies 12.4 miles in 17 minutes.
September 9, 1909—Rougier, with biplane, at Brescia, flies 12 minutes and 10 seconds, soaring to a height of 328 feet.
September 10, 1909—Sommer, with biplane, at Nancy, flies 18 miles, accompanying troops on review.
September 11, 1909—Sommer, with biplane, at Nancy, flies to Lenoncourt—24 miles.
September 11, 1909—Curtiss, with biplane, at Brescia, flies 31 miles in 49 minutes and 24 seconds, winning the first prize for speed.
September 12, 1909—Rougier, with biplane, at Brescia, flies 31 miles in 1 hour 10 minutes and 18 seconds, soaring to a height of 380 feet.
September 12, 1909—Calderara, with biplane, at Brescia, flies 6.3 miles with one passenger, winning a prize.
September 13, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Tournai, flies to Taintiguies and back in 1 hour and 35 minutes.
September 13, 1909—Santos-Dumont, with monoplane, at St. Cyr, France, flies 5 miles in 12 minutes, to Buc, to visit Maurice Guffroy, on a bet of $200 that each would be the first to visit the other.
September 15, 1909—Ferber, with biplane, at Boulogne, France, flies to Wimeroux—6 miles in 9 minutes.
September 15, 1909—Calderara, with biplane, at Brescia, flies 5.6 miles with one passenger, winning the Oldofredi prize.
September 17, 1909—Orville Wright, with biplane, at Berlin, flies for 54 minutes and 26 seconds, rising to an altitude of 765 feet (estimated). He afterward flew for 47 minutes and 5 seconds with Captain Englehardt.
September 17, 1909—Santos-Dumont, with monoplane, at St. Cyr, flies 10 miles in 16 minutes across country.
September 17, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Ostend, Belgium, flies 1.24 miles in 3 minutes and 16 seconds, along the water front and out over the sea.
September 18, 1909—Orville Wright, with biplane, at Berlin, establishes a world record by flying for 1 hour 35 minutes and 47 seconds, with one passenger—Captain Englehardt.
September 18, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Ostend, flies for 1 hour over sea front, circling over the water; winning a prize of $5,000.
September 20, 1909—Rougier, with biplane, at Brescia, broke the record for high flying by reaching an altitude of 645 feet (official measurement).
September 20, 1909—Calderara, with biplane, at Brescia, flies 31 miles in 50 minutes and 51 seconds, winning the second prize for speed.
September 22, 1909—Captain Ferber, with a biplane, at Boulogne, flies 1 mile, when, his engine breaking in the air, his machine falls and he is killed.
September 25, 1909—Wilbur Wright, with biplane, at New York, flies from Governor’s Island around the Statue of Liberty.
September 27, 1909—Latham, in monoplane, at Berlin, flies 6.5 miles across country in 13 minutes.
September 28, 1909—Rougier, with biplane, at Berlin, flies 31 miles in 54 minutes, soaring to an altitude of 518 feet.
September 29, 1909—Latham in monoplane, at Berlin, flies 42 miles in 1 hour and 10 minutes, winning the second prize for distance.
September 29, 1909—Rougier, with biplane, at Berlin, flies 48 miles in 1 hour and 35 minutes.
September 29, 1909—Curtiss, with biplane, at New York, makes flights about the harbor from Governor’s Island.
September 30, 1909—Orville Wright, with biplane, at Berlin, soars to a height of 902 feet, making a world record for altitude.
September 30, 1909—Latham, with monoplane, at Berlin, flies 51 miles in 1 hour and 23 minutes.
October 1, 1909—Rougier, with biplane, at Berlin, flies 80 miles in 2 hours and 38 minutes, winning the first prize for distance and speed.
October 2, 1909—Orville Wright, with biplane, at Berlin, makes a flight of 10 minutes’ duration with the Crown Prince of Germany.
October 3, 1909—Farman, with biplane, at Berlin, flies 62 miles in 1 hour and 40 minutes, winning the third prize for distance and speed.
October 4, 1909—Orville Wright, with biplane, at Berlin, soared to an altitude of 1,600 feet, making a world record.
October 4, 1909—Wilbur Wright, with biplane, at New York, flies from Governor’s Island to Grant’s Tomb and back—21 miles in 33 minutes and 33 seconds.
October 10, 1909—Curtiss, with biplane, at St. Louis, Mo., makes several flights at the Centennial celebration.
October 10, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Pt. Aviation, flies 21.5 miles in 21 minutes and 48 seconds.
October 12, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Pt. Aviation, flies 3.6 miles in 6 minutes and 11 seconds, winning the prize for slowest flight.
October 16, 1909—Curtiss, with biplane, at Chicago, makes exhibition flights at 45 miles per hour.
October 16, 1909—Sommer, with biplane, at Doncaster, England, flies 9.7 miles in 21 minutes and 45 seconds, making the record for Great Britain.
October 16, 1909—Delagrange, with monoplane, at Doncaster, flies 5.75 miles in 11 minutes and 25 seconds.
October 16, 1909—Cody, with biplane, at Doncaster, flies 3,000 feet, when his machine is wrecked, and he is injured.
October 18, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Blackpool, England, flies 14 miles in 25 minutes and 53 seconds.
October 18, 1909—Rougier, with biplane, at Blackpool, flies 17.7 miles in 24 minutes and 43 seconds, winning the second prize.
October 18, 1909—Farman, with biplane, at Blackpool, flies 14 miles in 23 minutes.
October 18, 1909—Le Blon, with monoplane, at Doncaster, flies 22 miles in 30 minutes, in a rainstorm, winning the Bradford cup.
October 18, 1909—Count de Lambert, with biplane, at Juvissy, flies 31 miles to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and back, in 49 minutes and 39 seconds.
October 19, 1909—Le Blon, with monoplane, at Doncaster, flies 15 miles in a gale.
October 19, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Blackpool, flies 15.7 miles in 32 minutes and 18 seconds, winning the third prize.
October 20, 1909—Farman, with biplane, at Blackpool, flies 47 miles in 1 hour, 32 minutes, and 16 seconds, winning the first prize—$10,000.
October 20, 1909—Le Blon, with monoplane, at Doncaster, makes a spectacular flight in a fierce gale.
October 21, 1909—Count de Lambert, with biplane, at Pt. Aviation, flies 1.25 miles in 1 minute and 57 seconds, winning prize of $3,000 for speed.
October 22, 1909—Latham, with monoplane, at Blackpool, flies in a squally gale blowing from 30 to 50 miles an hour. When headed into the wind the machine moved backward in relation to points on the ground. Going before the wind, it passed points on the ground at a speed of nearly 100 miles an hour. This flight, twice around the course, is the most difficult feat accomplished by any aviator up to this date.
October 26, 1909—Sommer, with biplane, at Doncaster, flies 29.7 miles in 44 minutes and 53 seconds, winning the Whitworth cup.
October 26, 1909—Delagrange, with monoplane, at Doncaster, flies 6 miles in 7 minutes and 36 seconds—a speed of over 50 miles an hour.
October 30, 1909—Moore-Brabazon, with biplane, at Shell Beach, England, wins a prize of $5,000 for flight with a British machine.
November 3, 1909—Farman, with biplane, at Mourmelon, France, flies 144 miles in 4 hours 6 minutes and 25 seconds, far surpassing his previous best record of 112 miles in 3 hours 4 minutes and 57 seconds, made at Rheims, and winning the Michelin cup for duration and distance.
November 19, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Mourmelon, broke the record for height by ascending to 1,170 feet, in a wind blowing from 20 to 25 miles an hour.
November 19, 1909—Latham, with Antoinette monoplane, surpassed Paulhan’s record by rising to an altitude of 1,333 feet.
November 20, 1909—Paulhan, with biplane, at Mourmelon, flies to Chalons and back—37 miles in 55 minutes.
December 1, 1909—Latham, with monoplane, at Mourmelon, soars to 1,500 feet in a 40-mile gale.
December 30, 1909—Delagrange, with monoplane, at Juvissy, flies 124 miles in 2 hours and 32 minutes—an average speed of 48.9 miles per hour, surpassing all previous records.
December 31, 1909—Farman at Chartres, France, flies to Orleans—42 miles in 50 minutes.
December 31, 1909—Maurice Farman, at Mourmelon, defending his brother Henry’s record against competing aviators, flies 100 miles in 2 hours and 45 minutes, without a fault. The Michelin cup remains in his brother’s possession.
January 7, 1910—Latham, with Antoinette monoplane, at Chalons, rises to height of 3,281 feet (world’s record).
January 10, 1910—Opening of aviation meet at Los Angeles, Cal.
January 12, 1910—Paulhan, Farman biplane, at Los Angeles, rises to height of 4,146 feet. (World’s record.)
January 17, 1910—Paulhan, Farman biplane, at Los Angeles, flies 75 miles in 1 hour 58 minutes and 27⅖ seconds.
February 7, 1910—First flight in South America. Bregi, Voisin biplane, makes two flights near Buenos Aires.
February 7, 1910—Duray, with Farman biplane, at Heliopolis, Egypt, flies 5 kilometres in 4 minutes and 12⅘ seconds. (World’s record.)
April 8, 1910—D. Kinet, with Farman biplane, at Mourmelon, flies for 2 hours 19 minutes and 4⅖ seconds with passenger, covering 102 miles. (World’s record for passenger flight.)
April 11, 1910—E. Jeannin, with Farman biplane, flies 2 hours 1 minute and 55 seconds, at Johannisthal. (German record.)
April 15, 1910—Opening of Nice meeting.
April 17, 1910—Paulhan, with Farman biplane, flies from Chevilly to Arcis-sur-Aube, 118 miles. (Record cross-country flight.)
April 23, 1910—Grahame-White, with Farman biplane, flies from Park Royal, London, to Rugby (83 miles) in 2 hours and 1 minute. Starting again in 55 minutes, flies to Whittington in 1 hour and 5 minutes.
April 27, 1910—Paulhan, with Farman biplane, starts from Hendon, London, at 5.31 P. M., flies within 5 mile circle and continues to Lichfield, arriving 8.10 P. M. (117 miles). Grahame-White starts from Wormwood Scrubs, London, at 6.29 P. M., flies to Roade, arriving 7.55 P. M. (60 miles).
April 28, 1910—Paulhan flies from Lichfield to within 5 miles of Manchester, winning the £10,000 Daily Mail prize.
April 30, 1910—Opening of meeting at Tours, France.
May 1, 1910—Opening of flying-week at Barcelona.
May 3, 1910—Wiencziers, with Antoinette monoplane, twice circles the Strassburg cathedral.
May 6, 1910—Olieslagers, with Bleriot monoplane, makes flight of 18 minutes and 20 seconds above the sea at Barcelona, and over the fortress of Monjuich.
May 13, 1910—Engelhardt, with Wright biplane, at Berlin, flies 2 hours 21 minutes and 45 seconds. (German record.)
May 15, 1910—Kinet, with Farman biplane, flies 2 hours and 51 minutes with a passenger at Mourmelon, making the world’s record for passenger flight.
May 15, 1910—Olieslagers, with Bleriot monoplane, flies 15 miles over the sea at Genoa.
May 21, 1910—M. de Lesseps, with Bleriot monoplane, flies from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes, winning £500 prize offered by M. M. Ruinart.
May 28, 1910—G. Curtiss, with Curtiss biplane, starts from Albany at 7.03 A. M., flies to Poughkeepsie in 1 hour and 21 minutes (70 miles). Leaves Poughkeepsie at 9.24 A. M., flies to Spuyten Duyvil in 1 hour and 11 minutes (67 miles). Rises again at 11.45, flies over New York, landing on Governor’s Island at 12.03 P. M. Wins prize of $10,000 given by the New York World.
June 2, 1910—Rolls, with Short-Wright biplane, leaves Dover at 6.30 P. M., crosses Channel to French coast near Calais (7.15 P. M.), without landing re-crosses Channel to Dover, flies over harbor, circles Dover Castle, and lands at 8.10 P. M. Wins second Ruinart prize of £80.
June 14, 1910—Brookins, with Wright biplane, at Indianapolis, reaches height of 4,380 feet. (World’s record.)
June 25, 1910—In Italian Parliament 25 million lire (about $5,000,000) voted for aviation in the extraordinary estimates of the Ministry of War.
June 26, 1910—Dickson, with Farman biplane, at Rouen, wins total distance prize of £2,000 and the £400 for longest unbroken flight. Distance flown, 466 miles.
June 27, 1910—M. de Lesseps, with Bleriot monoplane, flies over Montreal for 49 minutes, covering about 30 miles at height generally of 2,000 feet.
July 6, 1910—First German military aeroplane makes maiden cross-country flight over Doeberitz.
July 26, 1910—M. de Lesseps, with Bleriot monoplane, starting from Ile de Gros Bois in the St. Lawrence, makes trip of 40 miles in 37 minutes.
August 1, 1910—Henry Farman takes up three passengers at Mourmelon for 1 hour and 4 minutes.
August 5, 1910—Chavez, with Bleriot monoplane, attains height of 5,750 feet. World’s record.
August 7, 1910—Lieutenants Cammerman and Villerme fly together from Mourmelon to Nancy, 125 miles in 2½ hours, with a Farman biplane.
August 11, 1910—Drexel, with Bleriot monoplane, at Lanark, beats the world’s record for height, rising 6,600 feet.
August 27, 1910—First wireless telegram from a flying aeroplane, sent by McCurdy from a Curtiss machine in the air, at Atlantic City, N. J. The sending key was attached to the steering wheel.
August 28, 1910—Dufaux, with biplane constructed by himself, flies over Lake Geneva, wins prize of £200 offered by Swiss Aero Club.
August 29, 1910—Breguet, with Breguet monoplane, makes a flight at Lille, France, carrying five passengers, establishing world’s record for passenger flight.
August 29, 1910—Morane, with Bleriot monoplane, at Havre, beats world’s altitude record, reaches height of 7,166 feet.
September 2, 1910—Mlle. Hélène Dutrieux flies with a passenger from Ostend to Bruges, Belgium, and back to Ostend. At Bruges she circled around the famous belfry at a height of 1,300 feet, the chimes pealing in honor of the feat—the most wonderful flight so far accomplished by a woman.
September 3, 1910—M. Bielovucci lands at Bordeaux, France, having made the trip from Paris, 366 miles, inside of 48 hours. The actual time in the air was 7 hours 6 minutes. Strong head winds blew him backward, forcing a landing three times on the way. This is the fourth longest cross-country flight on record, and makes the world’s record for sustained speed over a long distance.
Mlle. Hélène Dutrieux.
September 4, 1910—Morane, at Havre, rises to height of 8,469 feet.
September 7, 1910—Weyman, with Farman biplane, flies from Buc in attempt to reach the top of the Puy-de-Dôme, lands at Volvic, 5 miles from his destination. Establishes world’s record for flight with passenger, having covered 139 miles without landing.
September 28, 1910—Chavez crosses the Alps on a Bleriot monoplane from Brigue, in Switzerland, to Domodossola, in Italy, flying over the Simplon Pass.
October 1, 1910—Henri Wynmalen, of Holland, with a biplane at Mourmelon, France, rises to a height of 9,121 feet, making a new world’s record for altitude.
October 4, 1910—Maurice Tabuteau recrossed the Pyrenees, in his return trip from San Sebastian to Biarritz, without accident or marked incident.
October 5, 1910—Leon Morane, the winner of nearly all the contests in the English meets for 1910, fell with his monoplane at Boissy St. Leger, during a contest for the Michelin cup, and was seriously injured.
October 8, 1910—Archibald Hoxsey, with a biplane, makes the longest continuous aeroplane flight recorded in America, between Springfield, Ill., and St. Louis, Mo.—104 miles.
October 12, 1910—Alfred Leblanc, with monoplane, at St. Louis, flies 13 miles in 10 minutes, a speed of 78 miles per hour. It was not officially recorded, as a part of the distance was outside of the prescribed course.
October 14, 1910—Grahame-White flies from the Bennings Race Track 6 miles across the Potomac River to the Capitol at Washington, circles the dome, and then circles the Washington Monument, and finally alights with precision in Executive Street, between the Executive Offices and the building of the State, Army, and Navy Departments. After a brief call, he rose from the narrow street—but 20 feet wider than his biplane—and returned to the race track without untoward incident.
October 16, 1910—Wynmalen flies from Paris to Brussels, and returns, with one passenger, within the elapsed time of 27 hours 50 minutes, winning two prizes amounting to $35,000. The distance is 350 miles, and the actual time in the air was 15 hours 38 minutes.
October 25, 1910—J. Armstrong Drexel, with monoplane, at Belmont Park, L. I., rises to height of 7,105 feet, breaking previous records, and surpassing his own record of 6,600 feet, made at Lanark, Scotland.
October 26, 1910—Ralph Johnstone, in biplane, at Belmont Park, rises to the height of 7,313 feet, through sleet and snow, breaking the new American record made by Drexel the day before.
October 27, 1910—Johnstone, with biplane, at Belmont Park, rises to height of 8,471 feet, surpassing his own record of the day before and establishing a new American record. The feat was performed in a gale blowing nearly 60 miles per hour, and the aviator was carried 55 miles away from his starting point before he landed.
October 28, 1910—Tabuteau, with biplane, at Etampes, France, makes a new world’s endurance record of 6 hours’ continuous flight, covering a distance of 289 miles.
October 29, 1910—Grahame-White, with monoplane, at Belmont Park, wins the International speed race over the distance of 62.1 miles, in 1 hour 1 minute 4⅗ seconds.
October 29, 1910—Leblanc, with monoplane, at Belmont Park, makes a new world’s record for speed, reaching 70 miles per hour during the International speed race. Through a lack of fuel he lost the race to Grahame-White, after covering 59 miles in 52 minutes.
October 30, 1910—John B. Moisant, with monoplane, wins the race from Belmont Park around the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, and the prize of $10,000. The distance is about 34 miles, and Moisant covered it in 34 minutes 39 seconds.
October 30, 1910—James Radley, with monoplane, at Belmont Park, wins the cross-country flight of 20 miles in 20 minutes 5 seconds.
October 31, 1910—Johnstone, with biplane, at Belmont Park, rises to a height of 9,714 feet, breaking the previous world’s record, made by Wynmalen on October 1.
October 31, 1910—Drexel, with monoplane, racing for altitude with Johnstone, reaches a height of 8,370 feet.
October 31, 1910—Moisant, with monoplane, at Belmont Park, wins the two-hour distance race with a record of 84 miles. His next nearest competitor covered but 57 miles.
November 14, 1910—Eugene Ely, with biplane, flew from a staging on the deck of the U. S. Cruiser Birmingham 8 miles to the shore near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. The flight was intended to end at the Norfolk Navy Yard, but an accident to the propeller at starting forced Ely to make directly for the shore.
November 17, 1910—Ralph Johnstone, holder of the world’s altitude record of 9,714 feet, was killed at Denver, Col., by a fall with his biplane.
November 23, 1910—Drexel, at Philadelphia, reaches an altitude of 9,970 feet, passing all other altitude records. Coming down he made a straight glide of seven miles.
December 2, 1910—Charles K. Hamilton, at Memphis, Tenn., flies 4 miles in 3 minutes 1 second, a speed of 79.2 miles per hour. This is a new world’s record.
Chapter XX.
EXPLANATION OF AERONAUTICAL TERMS.
Every development in human progress is marked by a concurrent development in language. To express the new ideas, new words appear, or new meanings are given to words already in use.
As yet, the vocabulary of aeronautics is in the same constructive and incomplete state as is the science to which it attempts to give voice, and the utmost that can be done at this time is to record such words and special meanings as are in use in the immediate present.