Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/February in aviation/February 16
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- 2006 - Kobe Airport, a controversial offshore airport in Kobe, Japan, opens for airline service.
- 1903 - Traian Vuia presented to the Académie des Sciences of Paris the possibility of flying with a heavier-than-air mechanical machine and his procedure for taking off, but it was rejected for being an utopia, adding the comments: The problem of flight with a machine which weighs more than air cannot be solved and it is only a dream.
