One Hundred Years of Flight USAF Chronology ... - The Air University
One Hundred Years of Flight USAF Chronology ... - The Air University
One Hundred Years of Flight USAF Chronology ... - The Air University
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November 1: Lt. Giulio Gavotti <strong>of</strong> Italy, flying an Etrich Taube aircraft,<br />
dropped bombs from an airplane in war for the first time, attacking<br />
Turkish positions in Libya.<br />
November 5: In 49 days, Calbraith Perry Rodgers, flying a Burgess-Wright<br />
biplane, completed the first transcontinental flight from New York to<br />
Pasadena, California—a distance <strong>of</strong> 3,390 miles.<br />
November 28: <strong>The</strong> Signal Corps Army Aviation School moved temporarily<br />
from College Park, Maryland, to Augusta, Georgia, because the climate<br />
there was better for winter flying.<br />
1912<br />
1911–12<br />
February 17: <strong>The</strong> Army published its first physical examination requirements<br />
for pilots.<br />
February 23: War Department Bulletin no. 2 for 1912 established the rating<br />
“military aviator.”<br />
March 1: Albert Berry made the first attached-type parachute jump over<br />
Jefferson Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri, at an altitude <strong>of</strong> 1,500 feet<br />
from a Benoist pusher airplane.<br />
March 21: Lt. Frank P. Lahm flew Signal Corps No. 7, a Wright Model B aircraft,<br />
at Fort William McKinley in the Philippine Islands—the first flight<br />
<strong>of</strong> an airplane at an overseas base.<br />
May 30: At the age <strong>of</strong> 45, Wilbur Wright died <strong>of</strong> typhoid fever at Dayton,<br />
Ohio.<br />
June 14: After training at the Army <strong>Air</strong> School in the Philippines, Cpl. Vernon<br />
Burge became the Army’s first enlisted pilot.<br />
July 5: Capt. Charles deForest Chandler, 2d Lt. Thomas D. Milling, and 2d<br />
Lt. Henry H. Arnold became the first Army pilots to qualify as military<br />
aviators.<br />
November 5–13: <strong>The</strong> Army used aircraft for artillery adjustment for the first<br />
time at Fort Riley, Kansas. Capt. Frederick B. Hennessy, Lt. Henry H.<br />
Arnold, and Lt. Thomas DeWitt Milling signaled the ground, using<br />
radiotelegraphy, drop cards, and smoke signals.<br />
November 12: Lt. <strong>The</strong>odore G. Ellyson, the Navy’s first pilot, successfully<br />
launched a Curtiss seaplane, using a catapult mounted on a float<br />
anchored in the Anacostia River opposite the Navy Yard in Washington,<br />
D.C. This device was a forerunner <strong>of</strong> the catapult used on aircraft<br />
carriers.<br />
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