1928 in aviation

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1928:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 August 1.8 September 1.9 October 1.10 December 2 First flights 2.1 January 2.2 March 2.3 May 2.4 December 3 Entered service 3.1 May

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• January 6-8 - Lt Christian Schilt makes ten flights in an O2U Corsair to evacuate wounded marines from the besieged village of Quilali, Nicaragua. He is awarded the Medal of Honor.

[edit] February

• February 7 - Bert Hinkler leaves Croydon in an Avro Avian, attempting the first solo flight from England to Australia. He will arrive in Darwin on February 22.
• February 12 - Lady Mary Hearth leaves Cape Town in an Avro Avian in an attempt to make the first solo flight by a woman from South Africa to England. She will arrive in Croydon on May 17.

[edit] March

• March 30 - Mario di Bernardi sets a new airspeed record - the first over 300 mph (483 km/h). He flies a Macchi M.52bis.

[edit] April

• April 13 - the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic from East to West is made by Hermann Köhl, Baron Gunther von Hunefeld, and Major James Fitzmaurice in a Junkers W.33 named the Bremen.

[edit] May

• May 15 - Rev John Flynn founds the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia at Cloncurry, Queensland, using a de Havilland DH.50. The service takes medical services to remote parts of the Australian bush.
• May 23 - Umberto Nobile commands the Italian airship Italia on an ill-fated flight over the North Pole. The airship crashes on its way back, and Roald Amundsen is killed trying to rescue survivors.

[edit] June

• June 17 - Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
• June 9 - Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew make the first flight across the Pacific Ocean in the Fokker F.VIIb-3m Southern Cross. They left Oakland, California on May 31 and reach Brisbane via Honolulu and Fiji. The flight takes 83 hours.
• June 11 - At the Wasserkuppe, Alexander Lippisch's Ente becomes the first aircraft to fly under rocket power.
• July 12 - Emilio Carranza crashes in the New Jersey Pine Barrens while returning from New York City to Mexico City on a historic goodwill flight.

[edit] August

• The Daily Mail newspaper fits out a de Havilland DH.61 to use as a mobile press office. It carries its own darkroom and a motorcycle.

[edit] September

• September 18 - Don Juan de la Cierva flies a Cierva C.8 autogyro from Croydon, England, to Le Bourget, France, making the first crossing of the English Channel in a rotary wing aircraft.

[edit] October

• October 11 - the Zeppelin Graf Zeppelin crosses the Atlantic in 71 hours.

[edit] December

• December 12 - Royal Air Force Vickers Victorias evacuate British civilians from Kabul.
• December 19 - Harold Pitcairn flies his first autogyro.

[edit] First flights

[edit] January

• January 7 - Polikarpov Po-2

[edit] March

• March 5 - Beardmore Inflexible

[edit] May

• Sikorsky S-38

[edit] December

• December 7 - De Havilland Hawk Moth

[edit] Entered service

[edit] May

• Junkers G.31 with Lufthansa