1909 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1909:

Events

February

February 23 - John McCurdy makes the first aeroplane flight in Canada in the Silver Dart

May

May 14 - Samuel Cody makes the first aeroplane flight in the UK longer than 1 mile (1.6 km) in the British Army Aeroplane No. 1.

July

The International Exhibition of Aviation opens in in Frankfurt-am-Main (ILA - regularly in Berlin in our times).
July 25 - Louis Bl�riot claims a �1,000 prize from the British Daily Mail newspaper for being the first pilot to cross the English Channel. He makes the crossing in his Bl�riot Type XI from Les Barraques (near Calais) to Northfall Meadow (near Dover Castle) in 37 minutes. Bl�riot also received an additional �3,000 from the French government.

August

First International Air Races held in Reims. Glenn Curtiss (U.S.A.)wins Major Prize.

October

Die Deutsche Luftschiffahrt Aktiengessellschaft (DELAG) becomes the world's first airline, founded at Frankfurt-am-Main.
October 30 - John Moore-Brabazon in a Short Brothers aircraft flies the first circular mile in the UK and wins �1,000 from the Daily Mail newspaper.

November

November 4 - John Moore-Brabazon makes the first live cargo flight by airplane when he puts a small pig in a waste-paper basket tied to a wing-strut of his airplane.
November 16, foundation of the first air transport company in the world, DELAG (German Aviation Company).

March

August

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