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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1906–7<br />
Orville and Wilbur Wright. <strong>The</strong>y took turns flying the first successful airplane.<br />
1906<br />
May 22: <strong>The</strong> U.S. Patent Office issued a patent on the Wright brothers’<br />
three-axial airplane-control system.<br />
September 13: Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian living in France, made the<br />
first airplane flight in Europe at Bagatelle. His airplane flew only 23 feet<br />
that day, but on October 23 Santos-Dumont flew his machine 196 feet.<br />
1907<br />
August 1: <strong>The</strong> Army’s Signal Corps established a new Aeronautical Division<br />
under Capt. Charles deForest Chandler to take charge <strong>of</strong> military ballooning<br />
and air machines.<br />
December 23: Brig. Gen. James Allen, chief signal <strong>of</strong>ficer, issued the first<br />
specification for a military airplane. It called for an aircraft that could<br />
carry two people, fly at a minimum speed <strong>of</strong> 40 miles per hour, go 125<br />
miles without stopping, be controllable for flight in any direction, and<br />
land at its take<strong>of</strong>f point without damage.<br />
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