This is a list of aviation-related events from 1907: This is a timeline of aviation history. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1902: January January 17 - Gustave Whitehead reportedly flies a flying boat rebuilt from his Whitehead Aeroplane No. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1903: March March 31 - Richard Pearse is reputed to have made a powered flight in a heavier-than-air craft, a monoplane of his own construction, that crash lands on a hedge. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1904: April April 1 - Captain Ferdinand Ferber makes a failed attempt to fly an Archdeacon glider at Berck sur Mer, Normandy. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1905: April April 27 - Sapper Moreton of the British Armys balloon section is lifted 2,600 ft (792 m) by a kite at Aldershot under the supervision of the kites designer, Samuel Cody. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1906: January January 17 - Zeppelin LZ 2 (makes a forced landing and is destroyed in high winds the following day). ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1908: Events Month unkown- The United States Army announces plans to buy flying machines. ... 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. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1910: Events First night flights. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1911: Events January January 18 - Eugene Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1912: Events First all-metal aircraft flies, the Tubavion monoplane built by Ponche and Maurice Primard in France. ... ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Events

• Robert Esnault-Pelterie becomes first pilot to fly using a control stick.

August Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (November 8, 1881–December 6, 1957) was a pioneering French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist. ...

• August 1 - An Aeronautical Division is formed in the U.S. Army Signal Corps to oversee "all matters pertaining to military ballooning, air machines, and all kindred subjects".

September August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... The U.S. Army Signal Corps was founded in 1861 by Major Albert J. Myer, a physician by training. ...

• September 29 - Louis Breguet and Charles Richet demonstrate their Gyroplane No. 1, the first rotary-wing aircraft to lift a person off the ground. (The craft is still controlled by handlers standing around it on the ground).

October September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). ... Louis Charles Breguet (January 2, 1880 - May 4, 1955) was a French airplane designer and builder, one of the early aviation pioneers. ... Charles Robert Richet (August 26, 1850 _ December 4, 1935) was a French physiologist who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on anaphylaxis, his term for the sometimes fatal reaction by a sensitized individual to a second injection of an antigen. ... Rotary-wing aircraft is a broad category of any aircraft with a moving wing, including helicopters and autogyros. ...

• October 12 - Augustus Gaudron crosses the North Sea in a hot air balloon named Mammouth. He flies 1,160 km (721 miles) from The Crystal Palace, London to Lake Vänern, Sweden.

November October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ... Hot air balloons are the oldest successful human flight technology, dating back to the Montgolfier brothers invention in Annonay, France in 1783. ... The facade of the original Crystal Palace Another view of the Crystal Palace A huge iron and glass building, The Crystal Palace was one of the wonders of 19th Century Britain, if not the world. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. ... Lake Vänern Vänern is the largest lake in Sweden, and the third largest lake in Europe, covering an area of 5,655 km². Its main tributary is Klarälven, which flows into the lake near the city of Karlstadt. ...

• November 13 - first piloted free flight in a rotary-wing aircraft by Paul Cornu at Lisieux. This first flight lifted Cornu about 30 cm (1 ft) and lasted 20 seconds. Sometimes recognized as first impractical helicopter flight.

November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ... Rotary-wing aircraft is a broad category of any aircraft with a moving wing, including helicopters and autogyros. ... Paul Cornu, manufacturing cycles, he was the first piloted free flight in a rotary wing aircraft at Lisieux, Calvados, France on November 13, 1907. ... Lisieux is a commune of the Calvados département, in the Lower Normandy région, in France. ...

First flights

July

• July 11 - Blériot Type VI Libellule

September July 11 is the 192nd day (193rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 173 days remaining. ...

• September 10 - Nulli Secundus, the British Army's first airship

November September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military. ... Akron in flight, 2 November 1931 An airship is a buoyant (lighter-than-air) aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ...

• November 10 - Bléroit Type VII, first aircraft of conventional modern configurationjokw

November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ...

Entered service