This is a list of aviation-related events from 1913:
Events
- The Serbian air force is established as an army air service. Six officers receive pilot training in France.
- First air strike ever. Mexican pilot Gustavo Salinas Camilla and Frenchman Didier Masson, attacked land and naval federal forces for rebels led by Pancho Villa.
January
February
- February 8 - Russian pilot N. de Sackoff becomes the first pilot shot down in combat when his biplane is hit by ground fire following bomb run on the walls of Fort Bezhani during the First Balkan War. Flying for the Greeks, he comes down near small town of Preveza, on the coast N of the Aegean island of Levkas, secures local Greek assistance, repairs plane and resumes flight back to base. [1]
- February 11 - the Chilean Air Force is established at Lo Espejo (today El Bosque).
March
April
- April 16 - First contest for the Schneider Trophy. Maurice Prévost wins in a Deperdussin monoplane, completing the 28 circuits of the 10 km (6.2 mile) course with an average speed of 73.63 km/h (45.75 mph)
- April 24 - O. Gilbert flies 825 km from Villacoublay to Vitoria (8 hours and 23 minutes).
- April 27 - Robert G. Fowler makes first flight across the Isthmus of Panama. Technically this is the first flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
July
August
- August 7 - Aviation pioneer Samuel Cody is killed in a crash
- August 20 - 700 feet above Buc, France, parachutist Adolphe Pegond becomes the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely in Europe. Albert Berry made the first documented parachute jump from a moving airplane on March 1, 1912, at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.
September
December
- December 13-14 - German balloonist Hugo Kaulen stays aloft for 87 hours. This record lasted until 1935.
First flights
May
August
September
November
December
Entered service
References
- ^ Baker, David, "Flight and Flying: A Chronology", Facts On File, Inc., New York, New York, 1994, Library of Congress card number 92-31491, ISBN 0-8160-1854-5, page 61.
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