1910 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1910:

Events

• First night flights.
• Races between aeroplanes and cars are only won by racing cars.
• Hugo Junkers gets a patent for his thick wing/all-wing type aeroplane.

January

• January 4, Leon Delagrange is killed at Pau after the wings on his Blériot collapse.
• January 7, Frenchman Hubert Latham is the first pilot to climb to 1000 metres.
• January 10 – January 20 – The first aviation meet to be held in the United States, the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field, is held near Los Angeles, California.

March

• March 8 - Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman in the world to receive a pilot's licence.
• March 10 - Emil Aubrun makes the first night flights, in a Blériot Type IX at Villalugano, Argentina.
• March 13 - Paul Engelhard makes the first flight in Switzerland, flying a Wright biplane from a frozen lake at St Moritz
• March 14 - Louis Paulhan flies 146 km in a straight route from Orleans to Trois.
• March 21 – Harry Houdini achieves one of the first powered flights in Australia.
• March 28 - Henri Fabre makes the first flights in a seaplane at Matigues, France

April

• The French Air Force is formed as its own command, with a total of five aircraft.

June

• June 2 - Charles Rolls makes the first successful return flight over the English Channel
• June 17 - Romanian engineer and inventor Aurel Vlaicu flies his first airplane, Vlaicu I

July

• July 5 - Bert Pither is reputed to have flown the first metal-framed aircraft at Riverton, New Zealand
• July 9, Frenchman Léon Morane sets a new speed record of 106 km/h.
• July 12 - Charles Rolls is killed in a crash at Bournemouth, becoming the first British aviation fatality

August

• August 27 Frederick Baldwin and John McCurdy, using a Curtiss biplane, are the first pilots to send radio messages to the ground.

September

• September 6 - Blanche Stuart Scott makes the first solo airplane flight by a woman in the United States subsequently recognized by the Early Birds of Aviation.
• September 16 - Bessica Raiche makes the first solo airplane flight by a woman in the United States to be accredited at the time by the Aeronautical Society of America.
• September 23 - the Peruvian Geo Chavez flies the Blériot-monoplane over the Alps from Brig (Switzerland) to Domodossola (Italy) reaching a height of 2200 metres, but is killed in a crash landing.

October

• Romanian inventor Henri Coandă (1886-1972), builds the first thermojet prototype, named the Coandă-1910; he exhibits it at the International Aeronautic Salon in Paris, and tests it at the airport in Issy-les-Moulineaux.
• October 2 - the first mid-air collision takes place near Milan. Both pilots survive, but one is badly injured.
• October 11 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first former state leader to fly in an airplane. His term as President of the United States of America ended in 1909.
• October 14 first confirmed flight over Norway by Carl Cederström.

November

• November 4 - Welshman Ernest Willows makes the first airship crossing from England to France with Willows No. 3 City of Cardiff.
• November 7 – The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight occurs between Dayton, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio in the United States of America by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse. The trip was made by Wright pilot Philip Parmalee.
• November 14 - Eugene Ely takes off from a temporary platform erected over the bow of the light cruiser USS Birmingham, the first take-off from a ship.
• November 17 – Ralph Johnstone, a pilot for the Wright Exhibition Team, becomes the first American pilot to die in a plane crash dies when his machine breaks apart in mid air in full view of about 5,000 spectators at Denver, Colorado.

December

• 16 December - Henri Coandă's plane is the first jet to fly when unexpectedly was airborne when testing the engine.
• 21 December - Hélène Dutrieu becomes the first winner of the Coupe Femina (Femina Cup) for a non-stop flight of 167 kilometers in 2 hours 35 minutes
• December 23 - Lt Theodore Ellyson of the United States Navy is assigned to flight training with the Curtiss company, making him the first naval aviator.

First flights

• July 29 - Bristol Boxkite