Events
- The Surrey Aero Club inaugurates recreational flights from Gatwick Race Course (now London Gatwick Airport).
- The German airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes its first crossing of the South Atlantic.
- The Aeromarine-Klemm Corporation, formerly the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company, goes out of business, although the Uppercu-Burnelli Corporation takes over production of Aeromarine aircraft engines.
- French test pilot Roger Baptiste achieves a speed of 280 km/hr (174 mph) at an altitude of 4,000 meters (13,123 feet) in the Bernard 20 monoplane fighter prototype.
- Autumn 1930 – The Royal Air Force rededicates No. 443 Flight of the Fleet Air Arm as the first British catapult flight of aircraft assigned to operate from battleship and cruiser catapults.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)
“It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man’s judgement.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)