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January 19 - Jules Védrines claims a FF25,000 prize by landing
an aircraft (a Caudron G-3) on the roof of a department
store in Paris. Védrines is injured and his aircraft is damaged
beyond repair in the hard landing in a space only 28 m x 12 m (92
ft x 40 ft).
February
February 5 - Beginning of regular flights between Berlin and
Weimar by the Deutsche Luft-Reederei with AEG
and DFW biplanes.
February 8 - Henry
Farman carries 11 paying passengers in his plane from Paris to
London on first commercial flight between the two cities.
March 10 - Australia's Prime Minister announces a £ 10,000
reward to the first aviator who will fly from Great-Britain to
Australia in less than 30 days.
May 15 - A transcontinental air route between Chicago and
Cleveland is inaugurated by US Mail.
May 18 - Harry
Hawker and Lt Cdr Kenneth Mackenzie-Grieve attempt a non-stop
Atlantic crossing but are forced to ditch their aircraft only 2,253
km (1,400 miles) after leaving Newfoundland. London's Daily Mail newspaper
awards them a prize of £5,000 for their attempt anyway.
June
June 1 - A permanent flight of aircraft is stationed in San Diego to serve as a
forest fire patrol. The machines are war-surplus Curtiss JN-4s.
June 12 - Raymonde de Laroche breaks the
women's altitude record, flying to a height of 5,150 m (16,896
ft).
June 23 - Six Zeppelins (LZ 46, LZ 79, LZ 91, LZ103, LZ
110, and LZ 111) are destroyed at Nordholz by their own crews in order to
prevent them from falling into Allied hands.
July 2 - The AirshipR34 achieves the first airship crossing of
the Atlantic and the first East-West Atlantic flight, leaving East Fortune, Scotland, to arrive in New York on July 6. The
journey becomes a successful two-way crossing when the airship
arrives in back in the UK on July 13.
July 14 - A Fiat BR
makes the first direct flight from Rome to Paris.
To protest against the fact that pilots have to parade on foot
at the victory parade on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, French pilot
Charles Godefroy flies his Nieuport fighter under the arches of the
famous Arc de Triomphe.
September 24 - the Schneider Trophy race is flown at Bournemouth, UK. An
Italian Savoia S.13 is the only finisher, but is
disqualifed for missing a turning buoy. When judges ask pilot Guido
Janello to complete another lap, he runs out of fuel.
Commander Biard, flying the Supermarine route between
Southampton and Le Havre,
knocks his passenger out during the flight. The man, a Belgian
banker named Lowenstein, wanted to open his umbrella to protect
himself from the wind and rain.
October
October 4 - A new altitude world record of 31,569 ft is set by
American pilot Rudolp Schroeder, flying a Le Père-Lusac 11.
October 8 - The US Army Air
Service begins a trans-continental air race. By the time Lt
Belvin Maynard wins it on October 31, seven airmen have died in the
attempt.
October 11 - Handley Page Transport begins
offering the first in-flight meals, on its London-Brussels service. The meals,
consisting of a sandwich, fruits and chocolate, are sold at 3
shillings each.
November 14 - The American Railway Express Company hires a Handley
Page V/1500 to carry 454 kg (1,000 lb) of parcels from New York to Chicago, but the attempt fails
due to mechanical problems.
November 15 - Alameda officials make an announcement stating
that suspected criminals will be subjected to perilous flight to
make them confess their crimes.
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