On 9th February 1897, an Australian aviation pioneer, Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith, was born in Brisbane. In 1928, Kingsford Smith successfully completed the first transpacific flight in aviation history. His over 11,500-kilometre-long trip was […]
Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith was born on 9th February 1897 in Brisbane, Australia. During the Great War, he enlisted the Australian Army where he became a motorcycle dispatch rider and participated in the Gallipoli […]
On 2nd February 1872, Henri Dupuy de Lôme presented to public his muscle-powered dirigible balloon, able to achieve up to 11 kph. Stanislas Charles Henri Dupuy de Lôme was born on 15th October 1816 in […]
On 2nd February 1872, Henri Dupuy de Lôme presented to public his muscle-powered dirigible balloon, able to achieve flight speed of up to 11 kph. On 29th October 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, the French […]
On 21st January 1885, Umberto Nobile, the Italian aviation pioneer and designer, as well as famous explorer of the Arctic areas, was born in Lauro, Italy. Nobile became famous thanks to his technical skills and […]
On 19th January 1919, French aviation pioneer Jules Védrines landed with his Caudron G.3 aircraft on the roof of Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris. Jules Charles Toussaint Védrines was born in December of 1881 […]
On 12th January 1879, American aviation pioneer, Calbraith Perry Rodgers, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Calbraith Perry Rodgers was born into a well-known family of naval commanders. Among his ancestors were Commodore John Rodgers (born […]
During the year 1914, German aviation pioneers set several flight endurance world records, successively increasing the time they spent in the air, without refuelling. Although the last record in that series remained unbroken for more […]
On 10th November 1907, French aviation pioneer Henri Farman, flew a distance of 1,030 metres with Voisin-made biplane. The flight lasted 1 minute and 14 seconds, thus Farman became the first European to stay in […]
On 6th October 1888, Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros, a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot, was born in Saint-Denis, Réunion island. Although the Garros family came from the Metropolitan France, they, since a long […]
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