On 7 August 1913, Samuel Cody died in an aviation accident when his floatplane crashed near Farnborough, England. Samuel Franklin Cowdery (later known as Samuel Franklin Cody and nicknamed the “Flying Cowboy”) was born on […]
On 23rd June 1913, Igor Sikorsky performed the first flight of his heavy aircraft, after re-designing it into four-in-line engine configuration. In 1911, the young aviation pioneer and aircraft designer, Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, began his […]
On 10th June 1913, Marcel Brindejonc des Moulinais performed a flight from Paris Villacoublay to Warsaw, in a Morane-Saulnier H monoplane. He covered 1,382 kilometres, winning the Pommery Cup for the longest flight made in […]
In March of this year, it will be 109 years since the death of Mihajlo Petrović, the first Serbian pilot, one of the first Serbian military aviators, as well as one of the first pilots […]
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