1905 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1905:
Events
- In Santa Clara, California Daniel Maloney flies for 20 minutes with a glider after he started from a balloon at a height of 4,000 ft (1,220 m). He crashed in a later flight.
- The engineer Léger's helicopter lifts a person vertically into the air in Monaco.
April
- April 27 - Sapper Moreton of the British Army's balloon section is lifted 2,600 ft (792 m) by a kite at Aldershot under the supervision of the kite's designer, Samuel Cody.
May
- May 14 - The Defaux brothers demonstrate a model helicopter in Paris. It lifts a payload of 13 lb (6 kg).
June
- June 6 - Gabriel Voisin flies along the River Seine in a glider towed by a motorboat.
October
- October 5 - Wilbur Wright makes a flight of 24.2 miles (39 km) in Flyer III. The flight lasts for almost 40 minutes. Flights up to 39 minutes and 24.5 miles (39 km). Flights done at Huffman Prairie in Ohio.
- October 14 - the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) is founded in Paris
November
- November 30 - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's LZ2 airship is damaged while attempting its first launch.
December
- Neil MacDermid is carried aloft in Canada by a large box kite named The Siamese Twins, designed by Alexander Graham Bell.
First flights
June
- June 23 - Wright Flyer III
Entered service
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