1905 in aviation

1905 in aviation

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yp2=1903
yp3=1904
year=1905
ya1=1906
ya2=1907
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1905:

Events

* In Santa Clara, California Daniel Maloney flies for 20 minutes with a glider after he started from a balloon at a height of 4,000 ft (1,220 m). He crashes in a later flight.
* The engineer Maurice Stanislas Léger's helicopter lifts a person vertically into the air in Monaco.
* U.S. Army Signal Corps transferred all balloon school activities to Fort Omaha, Nebraska.

March

*March 16-20 - Daniel Maloney is launched by balloon in a tandem-wing glider designed by John Montgomery and makes three successful flights at Aptos, CA, the highest launch being at 3,000 feet with an 18 minute descent to a predetermined landing location.

April

*April 27 - Sapper Moreton of the British Army's balloon section is lifted 2,600 ft (792 m) by a kite at Aldershot under the supervision of the kite's designer, Samuel Cody.
*April 29 - Daniel Maloney is launched by balloon in a tandem-wing glider designed by John Montgomery to an altitude of 4,000 feet before release and gliding flight and landing at a predetermined location as part of a large public demonstration of aerial flight at Santa Clara, California.

June

*June 6 - Gabriel Voisin flies along the River Seine in his float-glider towed by a motorboat.
*June 23 - First flight of Wright Flyer III.

July

*July 14 - Orville Wright has a serious crash with Wright Flyer III, upon which the Wright Brothers radically alter the aircraft. The front rudder is mainly the culprit for the Flyer's insistent pitching.
*July 18 - Daniel Maloney makes a launch in a tandem-wing glider designed by John Montgomery at Santa Clara, California. However, a balloon cable damages the glider and upon release Maloney and the aircraft fall uncontrolled to the ground, leading to Maloney's death.

eptember

*September - The Wright Brothers resume flight experiments with the re-designed Flyer III with performance of the airplane immediately in the positive. Smooth controlled flights lasting over 20 minutes now occur.

October

*October 5 - Wilbur Wright makes a flight of 24.2 miles (38.9 km) in Flyer III. The flight lasts for almost 39:23 minutes at Huffman Prairie in Dayton, Ohio.
* October 14 - The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) is founded in Paris.

November

*November 30 - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's LZ2 airship is damaged while attempting its first launch.

December

*Neil MacDermid is carried aloft in Canada by a large box kite named "The Siamese Twins", designed by Alexander Graham Bell.

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