Charles Alexandre Maurice Joseph Marie Jules Stanislas Jacques, Count de Lambert, was one of the first French aviation pioneers. He was born in 1865 in Funchal, the largest city of Madeira, but spent his childhood […]
On 4th October 1909, Wilbur Wright performed a demonstration flight in New York, flying along the Hudson River, being witnessed by a crowd of more than one million people. The flight was performed within a […]
Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros, the French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot, was born on 6th October 1888, in Saint-Denis, Réunion island. In 1909, Garros bought his first aircraft, an old Demoiselle, and began learning […]
On 27th September 1909, the Short Biplane No.2 experimental aircraft performed its first flight at Shellbeach, the Isle of Sheppey. At the dawn of aviation, the British daily newspaper Daily Mail supported the pioneer aviators […]
On 20th September 1857, Félix du Temple performed a successful flight of his unmanned, steam-powered aircraft. Félix du Temple de la Croix was born on 18th July 1823, into an ancient Norman family. In 1838, […]
Félix du Temple de la Croix, born in 1823, was a French naval officer who devoted much of his life to developing flying machines. In 1857, du Temple patented a design for locomotion aérienne par […]
On 23rd August 1878, the first British military aircraft, the Pioneer, performed its maiden flight at Woolwich Arsenal. The first British military balloon trials are as old as 1862. That year, Lieutenant George Grover proposed […]
On 9th August 1884, Charles Renard and Arthur Constantin Krebs performed the first fully controlled free flight with La France, a non-rigid airship they developed for the French Army. Charles Renard, born 1847 in Damblain, […]
On 2nd August 1909, the first example of Wright Military Flyer was delivered to the US Army Signal Corps. Officially designated ´Signal Corps No. 1´, and commonly known as ´Aeroplane No. 1´, the Wrights´ aircraft […]
On 19th July 1909, the French aviation pioneer Hubert Latham, made the first attempt to cross the English Channel in heavier-than-air aircraft. Arthur Charles Hubert Latham was born on 10th January 1883, in Paris, France. […]
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