1908 in aviation

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Years:	1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1908:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Month unknown 1.2 January 1.3 March 1.4 May 1.5 June 1.6 July 1.7 September 1.8 October 1.9 December 2 First flights 2.1 March 2.2 May 2.3 June 2.4 December 3 Entered service

[edit] Events

[edit] Month unknown

• The United States Army announces plans to buy flying machines.

[edit] January

• January 13 - Henry Farman wins the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize for making a circular flight of over 1 km (0.6 miles). He flew 3279 feet in 1 minute and 28 seconds.

[edit] March

• March 17 - AEA Red Wing was destroyed in a crash on its second flight.

• March 29 - Lèon Delagrange makes the first recorded flight with a passenger (Henry Farman) at Ghent, Belgium. Delagrane flew 453 feet.

[edit] May

• May 14 - Charles Furnas becomes the first passenger in an aeroplane, piloted by Wilbur Wright. First heavy-than-air passenger carrying flight. Wilbur Wright flew Charles W. Furnas for 22 seconds in the Wright 1905 Flyer, modified with seats for pilot and passenger. Shortly after, Orville flew Furnas for four minutes.

[edit] June

• June 8 - Alliot Verdon Roe flies his first aircraft at Brooklands, Surrey.
• June 28 - Jacob Ellehammer makes the first piloted, powered aeroplane flight in Germany.

[edit] July

• July 4 - Glenn H. Curtiss is awarded the Scientific American trophy for a public flight of over 1 km at Hammondsport. Curtiss flies 1,550 m (5,090 ft) in 1 minute and 42 seconds.
• July 8 - Thérèse Peltier becomes the first woman to fly in an aeroplane. She is a passenger on a flight made by Lèon Delagrange at Turin.

[edit] September

• September 9, Orville Wright flies 1 hour 3 minutes and 15 seconds.
• September 17 - Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge became the first person killed in a powered airplane and the first military aviation casualty when Orville Wright crashed his two-passenger plane during military tests at Fort Myer in Virginia. Orville Wright was severely injured.

[edit] October

• October 5, the Zeppelin-airship LZ IV destroyed by fire at Echterdingen.
• October 14, Henry Farman makes the first cross-country flight in a power-driven aeroplane, from Bouy to Reims (27 km) in 20 minutes.
• October 16 - Samuel Cody makes the first generally recognised aeroplane flight in the UK in his British Army Aeroplane No. 1.
• October 18, Wilbur Wright climbs to 115 metres above Auvours.

[edit] December

• December 18 - Wilbur Wright at Auvours flies 100 km (62 miles) in 1 hour and 54 minutes rising to 110 m (360 feet) - a new world record.
• December 31 - Wilbur Wright wins a prize of FF 20,000 from Michelin for the longest flight of the year (a world record) - 124 km (76.5 miles) in 2 hours 18 minutes and 53 seconds from Camp d'Auvours.

[edit] First flights

[edit] March

• March 12 - AEA Red Wing, flying from the surface of Keuka Lake near Hammondsport, New York. Flew for a distance of 318 feet, 11 inches (97.2 m), before collapsing to the ground, leaving the pilot slightly bruised. This would be the first public demonstration of a powered aircraft flight in the United States.

[edit] May

• May 18 - AEA White Wing

[edit] June

• June 28 - AEA June Bug

[edit] December

• December 6 - AEA Silver Dart

[edit] Entered service