First commercial night flight between London and Paris.
Hermann Oberth submits his dissertation, rejected as "too fantastic", which was published in 1923 as The Rocket to Planetary Spaces. It became a major work in space flight history.
April 4 - The Colombian Ministry of War opens a flying school (the Escuela de Aviación) at Flandes.
April 7 - A Daimler Airways de Havilland DH.18 collides with a Cie des Cgrands Express Aériens Farman Goliath over France. A total of seven people - everyone aboard the two aircraft - is killed in the first mid-air collision of two airliners.
April 16 - taking advantage of the German pilots is set up at Lipetsk. By 1933, 450 German military pilots will have trained here.
May
May 1 - Deruluft (Deutsche-Russische Luftverkehrs, "German-Russian Airlines") commences operations.
June 16 - Henry Berliner demonstrates a primitive helicopter to the US Navy.
July
July 1 - the US Navy orders the still-under-construction battlecruisers USS Lexington and USS Saratoga to be completed as aircraft carriers.
August
Britain's Air Ministry issues its first requirement for a purpose-designed night fighter. Specification 25/22 will eventually be filled by the Hawker Woodcock.
August 25 - Cpt Norman Macmillan and Geoffrey Mallins are rescued from the Bay of Bengal when their round-the-world attempt in a Fairey III is thwarted by engine failure.
September 9 - Cpt Frank Barnard wins the first King's Cup air race, flying from England to Scotland and back in 6 hours 32 minutes in a de Havilland DH.4.
September 27 - the US Navy conducts the first large-scale torpedo bombing exercises. Eighteen Naval Aircraft Factory PTs attack three battleships and score 8 hits in 25 minutes.
October
October 6 - Lt John Macready and Lt Oakely Kelley set a flight endurance record of 35 hours 18 minutes in a Fokker T-2.
October 17 - Lt Virgil Griffin makes the first take-off from a US aircraft carrier in a Vought VE-7 from USS Langley
October 20 - Lt Harold Harris makes the first parachute escape from a stricken aircraft, bailing out of a Loening PW-2 over Dayton, Ohio.
October 26 - the first landing is made on USS Langley by Lt Cdr Geoffrey DeChevalier in a Aeromarine 39
In 1928, Hungarian Aviation aircraft had already flown some 850,000 km, carrying almost 10,000 passengers and a payload of 1 million kg.
In the 1930s Malert opened and gradually expanded domestic flights, while aviation agreements signed with foreign states meant that the Ju-52 and SM-75 aircraft were able to bring the major cities of Europe closer to Budapest.
Its aircraft were requisitioned and Malert employees drafted for military service; by the end of 1944 the company's air fleet had been totally destroyed, and the airports in Hungary were in ruins.
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