1908 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1908:
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2 First flights 3 Entered service |
Events
January - Henry Farman wins the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize for making a circular flight of over 1 km (0.6 miles).
May
- May 14 - Charles Furnas becomes the first passenger in an aeroplane, piloted by Wilbur Wright. First heavy-than-air passenger carrying flight. Wilbur Wright flew Charles W. Furnas for a distance of 2.5 miles in a Wright Model B.
- June 8 - A. V. Roe flies his first aircraft at Brooklands, Surrey.
- June 28 - Jacob Ellehammer makes the first piloted, powered aeroplane flight in Germany.
- July 4 - Glenn H. Curtiss is awarded the Scientific American trophy for a public flight of over 1 km. Curtiss flies 1,550 m (5,090 ft).
- July 8 - ThÃÂérÃÂèse Peltier becomes the first woman to fly in an aeroplane. She is a passenger on a flight made by LÃÂèon Delagrange at Turin.
- Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge became the first person killed in a powered airplane and the first military aviation casualty when Wilbur crashed his two-passenger plane during military tests at Fort Myer in Virginia.
- October 16 - Samuel Cody makes the first generally recongised aeroplane flight in the UK in his British Army Aeroplane No. 1.
- December 31 - Wilbur Wright wins a prize of FF 20,000 from Michelin for the longest flight of the year - 124 km (77 miles) from Camp d'Auvours.
First flights
June
- June 28 - Curtiss June Bug