Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, May 25, 1910. Wilbur Wright and Orvill...

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, May 25, 1910. Wilbur Wright and Orvill...: 

Wednesday, May 25, 1910. Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright flew on the same plane for the only time, Wilbur made his last flight as a pilot.

Last edition:

Tuesday, May 10, 1910. Powell incorporated.

Labels: 1910, 1910s, Wyoming (Powell)

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, August 2, 1909. The United States Army accepted the delivery of a Wright Military Flyer.

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, August 2, 1909. Two firsts.: 

Monday, August 2, 1909. Two firsts.

The United States Army accepted the delivery of a Wright Military Flyer.

Wright Model A.

The Wright brothers were hired at the same time to train the first two pilots,  Lts. Frank P. Lahm and Frederick E. Humphreys

It was just six years after the first flight, and less than a decade before airplanes would become a major weapon of war.

Lex Anteinternet: June 3, 1909. Dreadnoughts and Flyers.

Lex Anteinternet: June 3, 1909. Dreadnoughts and Flyers.: 

June 3, 1909. Dreadnoughts and Flyers.

The Imperial Russian Navy, down to four ships following the Russo Japanese War, began a program of rebuilding, laying down keels for four dreadnoughts.

The Wright Brothers returned to Ft. Myer, Virginian, with an improved Wright Military Flyer.  The prior version had killed Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge.

Last prior edition:

Tuesday, June 1, 1909. Pathfinder Dam completed.

Labels: 1900s, 1909, Alaska, Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition, Arizona, Australia, California, California (Oakland), North Platte River, Oakland California, panoramic, Platte River, Wyoming, Yukon Territory

Friday, March 19, 1909. Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company forms.

 

Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, the first dedicated airplane manufacturing company, was formed by Glenn Hammond Curtiss and Augustus Moore Herring in Hammondsport, New York.  In 1929 it would merge with the Wright Aeronautical to form Curtiss-Wright Corporation, which still exists.

Tuesday, February 23, 1909. The first Canadian built aircraft, the Aerial Experiment Association Sliver Dart, takes flight.

 

Thursday, January 7, 1909. Those early licenses.

The first pilot's licenses were issued in France on this day in 1909. The issuing entity was the Aero-Club de France and the recipients were Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, Albert Santos-Dumont, Louis Blériot, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Léon Delagrange, Henri Farman and Captain Ferdinand Ferber.

John Evershed discovered, on the same day, that gas radiates over the surface of sunspots, from the inner border to the outer edge.