1907 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1907:
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[edit] Events
[edit] March
- March 16 - Leon Delagrange flew the Voison biplane at Bagatelle, France for 30 feet.
[edit] August
- August 1 - An Aeronautical Division is formed in the U.S. Army Signal Corps to oversee "all matters pertaining to military ballooning, air machines, and all kindred subjects".
[edit] September
- September 29 - Louis Breguet and Charles Robert Richet demonstrate their Gyroplane No. 1, the first rotary-wing aircraft to lift a person off the ground. (The craft is still controlled by handlers standing around it on the ground).
[edit] October
- October 12 - Augustus Gaudron crosses the North Sea in a hot air balloon named Mammouth. He flies 1,160 km (721 miles) from The Crystal Palace, London to Lake Vänern, Sweden.
- October 19 - Robert Esnault-Pelterie becomes first pilot to fly using a control stick at Buc, France.
[edit] November
- November 13 - first piloted free flight in a rotary-wing aircraft by Paul Cornu at Lisieux. This first flight lifted Cornu about 30 cm (1 ft) and lasted 20 seconds. Sometimes recognized as first impractical helicopter flight.
[edit] First flights
[edit] July
- July 11 - Blériot Type VI Libellule
[edit] September
- September 10 - Nulli Secundus, the British Army's first airship
[edit] November
- November 10 - Bléroit Type VII, first aircraft of conventional modern configuration
[edit] December
- December 6 - AEA Cygnet, first manned flight of this tethered glider (also referred to as a kite) designed by Alexander Graham Bell. Flight was also first flight for Thomas Selfridge, who would die a year later as the first person killed in the crash of a powered aircraft.
