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7 January
The first flight of the Polikarpov U2.
27 January
The first rigid airship to aircraft carrier mooring is achieved when United
States Navy (USN) dirigible (steerable airship) 'Los Angeles' moors to
USS Sagatoga while the latter vessel is at sea.
30 March
Major Mario di Bernardi of the Italian Air Force establishes a new world
speed record. Flying a Macchi M52bis, he achieves 512kph (318mph).
12-13 April
The first east-west transatlantic flight is made from Baldonnel in Dublin
to Greenly Island, just off the coast of Labrador by Captain James Fitzmaurice
of the Irish Free State Air Service, Captain Hermann Köhl and Baron
von Hünefeld in a Junkers W33 Bremen.
15-21 April
Captain
G.H. Wilkins and Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson make the first west-east crossing
of the Arctic, flying a Lockheed Vega.
15 May
The first Australian flying doctor service commences, with Dr K.H. Vincent
Welsh using a de Havilland DH50
23 May
The Italian airship 'Italia' attempts a flight to North Pole, but crashes
on the return flight.
11 June
The Ente sailpane is fitted with two Sanders solid fuel rocket motors
and becomes the first rocket powered aircraft to fly. The flight of 1.2
kilometres (0.75 miles) is undertaken by Friedrich Stamer at Wasserkuppe
Mountain in Germany.
3-5 July
A Savoia-Marchetti S64 monoplane, flown by Italians Captain Arturo Ferrarin
and Maggiore Carlo Del Prete, breaks distance records with a flight of
over 7,000 kilometres.
18 September
German airship LZ127 Graf Zeppelin is launched.
18 September
Don Juan de la Cierva flies from Croydon to Le Bourget in his C8L MkII
autogiro, making the first cross-Channel flight in a rotary wing aircraft.
11 October
German airship LZ127 Graf Zeppelin crosses the North Atlantic from Friedrichshafen
in Germany to Lakehurst in New Jersey an a journey that took 71 hours.
19 December
Harold Pitcairn flies the first American autogyro in Philadelphia.
20 December
Captain G.H. Wilkins and Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson complete the polar
double by making the first flight over the Antarctic in a Lockheed Vega.
They had already crossed the Arctic, flying over the North Pole, between
17-21 April.
Also this year...
Max Valier publicly demonstrates rocket propulsion in Germany.
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