Events
- The first night flights take place.
- Races between aeroplanes and cars are only won by racing cars.
- The world's first use of a radio between an aircraft and the ground takes place in the United States.
- Hugo Junkers gets a patent for his thick wing/all-metal type aeroplane.
- A patent is taken out in Germany for a device that allows a fixed machine gun to be fired from an airplane.
- The Imperial German Navy begins to form an air arm.
- The Imperial Russian Navy orders its first airplane.
- Lilian Bland builds and flies her own glider, the first biplane built in Ireland, from Carnmoney Hill, soon afterwards fitting an engine.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“On the most profitable lie, the course of events presently lays a destructive tax; whilst frankness invites frankness, puts the parties on a convenient footing, and makes their business a friendship.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)