7 January – Frenchman Hubert Latham is the first pilot to climb to 1,000 metres (3,300 feet).
7 January – The first aircraft designed entirely on Brazilian soil is built by Dimitri Sensaud de Lavaud, an engineer, inventor and aviator of French descent, born in Spain and naturalized Brazilian living in Brazil. The airplane, baptized as São Paulo, flies in Osasco, in the state of São Paulo. The flight takes place in front of a group of onlookers and journalists where today's Avenida João Batista is located. It is also the first to take off in Latin America.[citation needed]
8 January – The Mexican aviator Alberto Braniff with the Voisin monoplane, imported from France, flies around Mexico City. It was the first flight made by a latin american aviator in Latin America.
April – The French Aéronautique Militaire is formed as its own command, with a total of five aircraft.
2 April – Hubert Le Blon, an early Bleriot XI pilot, is killed after crashing onto the rocks at San Sebastian, Spain. He is the second pilot to die in the crash of a Bleriot after Delagrange.
10 May – Ernest Failloubaz makes the first flight in Switzerland by an aircraft built by and flown by a Swiss citizen. The aircraft has been constructed in co-operation with René Grandjean.[10]
13 May – Gabriel Hauvette-Michelin, an Antoinette pilot, is killed after hitting a racing pylon during takeoff at Lyon. The pylon breaks and falls over crushing him in his cockpit.[11][12]
July – The United States Navytorpedo boatBagley becomes the first U.S. Navy ship to embark a heavier-than-air aircraft when she takes a flying machine invented by Butler Ames aboard for testing. Tests carried out aboard Bagley of the Butler Ames Flying Machine last until August. The flying machine, which relies on the rotation of two large drums for its lifting power, proves incapable of flight.[18]
9 July – Frenchman Léon Morane (fr) sets a new speed record of 106 km/h (66 mph).
12 July – The French-built Wright airplane of Charles Rolls suffers a broken rudder at an altitude of 80 feet (24 meters) and crashes during a contest at Bournemouth. Rolls dies in the crash, becoming the first British aviation fatality.[19]
13 July – The German blimpErbslöh suffers an in-flight explosion and crashes near Leverkusen, Germany, killing her entire crew of five.
6–13 August – First Scottish International Aviation Meeting held at Lanark.[20]
28 August – Armand Dufaux pilots a Dufaux 4 biplane 66 km (41 mi) from St. Gingolph to Geneva at an altitude of around 150 m (490 ft), taking 56 minutes and 5 seconds for the crossing of Lake Geneva, the longest flight over "open water" at the time.[citation needed]
11 September – English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine makes the first aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea, although he actually lands some 200 feet (61 metres) short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay.[24][25]
23 September – Geo Chavez flies the Blériot monoplane over the Alps from Brig (Switzerland) to Domodossola (Italy) reaching a height of 2,200 metres (7,200 feet), but is fatally injured in a crash landing at the end of his flight and dies four days later.
25 September - Edmond Poillot is killed flying a Voisin biplane.
27 or 28 September – Aurel Vlaicu carries out the first military flight mission in Romania. Delivering a message from Slatina to Piatra-Olt.[28][29]
October–December
October – Romanian inventor Henri Coandă builds the Coandă-1910 which he exhibits at the International Aeronautic Salon in Paris. He later claims that this is the first motorjet, and that 2 months later it is flown briefly at the airport in Issy-les-Moulineaux.[30] Most aviation historians assert that the aircraft never flew and was not a motorjet.[31]
18 October – Wellman's transatlantic attempt ends when mechanical failures and a shortage of fuel force his dirigible America down in the North Atlantic Ocean about 450 miles (720 km) east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, where all aboard are rescued by the ocean liner Trent. Despite America″s failure to cross the Atlantic, the flight has set new world records for nonstop distance flown (1,008 miles (1,622 km) and for endurance (71½ hours nonstop, smashing the previous record, also set by a dirgible, of 37 hours aloft, at time when the airplane record was 5 hours).[35]
24 October – Blanche Stuart Scott becomes the first American female stunt pilot and the first American woman to pilot an aircraft at a public event, making her debut at an air show at Fort Wayne, Indiana.[36]
17 November – Ralph Johnstone, a pilot for the Wright Exhibition Team, becomes the first American pilot to die in a plane crash when his machine breaks apart in mid-air in full view of about 5,000 spectators at Denver, Colorado.
9 December – The French aviator Georges Legagneux becomes the first person to fly an airplane higher than 10,000 feet (3,000 meters), reaching an altitude of 10,499 feet (3,200 meters) in a Blériotmonoplane over the Pau airfield near Paris.[39][40]
16 December – Coandă-1910, the first aircraft powered by a turbo-propulseur, may have been tested near Paris. Another date given in some sources is 10 December.[41] Experts dispute whether it was tested at all.[42]
21 December – Hélène Dutrieu becomes the first winner of the Coupe Femina (Femina Cup) for a non-stop flight of 167 kilometers (104 mi) in 2 hours 35 minutes.
23 December – Lt Theodore Ellyson of the United States Navy is assigned to flight training with the Curtiss company, making him the first naval aviator.
28 December – French aviator Alexandre Laffont and Spanish passenger Mario Pola are killed at Issy-Les-Molineaux shortly after taking off in an attempt to fly to Belgium with two passengers. Their Antoinette monoplane collapses in midair. Pola was the owner of the aircraft and had hired test pilot Laffont, of the Antoinette Company, to fly it.
31 December – American pioneers John B. Moisant and Arch Hoxsey are killed on this day within hours of each other. Moisant at New Orleans in the morning and Hoxsey at Los Angeles in the afternoon.
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