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Events

January

• Soviet pilots Fedossenko, Wassenko and Usyskin take the stratosphere-balloon Ossoaviachim I to 22,000 m (72,160 ft).
• January 10-11 - A flight of six US Navy Consolidated P2Y flying boats set a new distance record for formation flying, 2,400 miles (3,862 km) between San Francisco and Pearl Harbor, also setting a new speed record for this crossing of 24 hours 35 minutes.

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February

• February 3 - Lufthansa begins the first regular airmail service across the Atlantic Ocean, between Berlin and Rio de Janeiro.
• February 7 - the first airmail flight between Australia and New Zealand is made by Charles Ulm in an Avro Ten, taking 14 hours 10 minutes.
• February 19 - the United States Army Air Corps begins flying US airmail after the government cancels all existing airmail contracts due to alleged improprieties by the previous administration during the negotiations of those contracts.

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April

• April 11 - Renato Donati sets a new altitude record of 14,433 m (47,352 ft) in a Caproni Ca 113.

April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ...

May

• May 8-23 - Jean Batten sets a new women's speed record between England and Australia. She flies a de Havilland DH.60 and makes the trip in 14 days 22 hours.
• May 29 - Highland Airways commences the first regular airmail service within the United Kingdom, between Inverness and Kirkwall

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June

• June 4 - the US Navy commissions its first purpose-built aircraft carrier, USS Ranger.
• June 26 - Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
• June 29-30 - Benjamin and Joseph Adamowicz brothers, amateur pilots, flew across the Atlantic

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July

• July 15 - Varney Speed Lines (later to be Continental Airlines) makes its first passenger-carrying flight.
• July 19 - F9C Sparrowhawk parasite fighters from airship USS Macon successfully launch from the airship, scout out the cruiser USS Houston and return to the Macon.
• July 19-August 20 - Gen Henry Arnold leads ten Martin B-10 bombers on an 8,000 mile (12,875 km) proving flight.

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August

• August 8-9 - James Ayling and Leonard Reid make the first non-stop flight from Canada to England, in a de Havilland DH84, taking 30 hours 50 minutes for the flight.
• August 28 - September 16 - the fourth International Tourist Aircraft Contest Challenge 1934 in Warsaw, won by the Polish crew of Jerzy Bajan on the RWD-9 plane.

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September

• September 7 - 16 - 9,537 km race over Europe and North Africa and a speed trial of the Challenge 1934 contest.
• September 22 - Sir Alan Cobham sets out in an Airspeed Courier in a failed attempt to fly non-stop from England to India.

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October

• October 20-November 3 - Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first eastward crossing of the Pacific Ocean, from Brisbane, Australia to San Francisco, California, in the Lady Southern Cross.
• October 20-November 5 - MacRobertson Air Race flown from England to Melbourne, Australia to celebrate the centenary of the state of Victoria. The £75,000 prize money is won by Charles Scott and Tom Black flying de Havilland DH88 Comet Grosvenor House.
• October 23 - Francesco Agello passes his 1933 world speed with a new airspeed record of 709 km/h (440 mph). Again he flies the Italian seaplane the Macchi M.C.72.

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December

• December 8 - Imperial Airways extends its airmail service to Australia.

December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Imperial Airways Empire Terminal, Victoria, London. ...

First flights

January

• January 14 - De Havilland DH.86

January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The de Havilland 86 was developed in 1933 for QANTAS, to inaugurate the Singapore-Brisbane section of the England to Australia air route. ...

February

• Supermarine Type 224

March

• March 30 - Sikorsky S-42

March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (90th in leap years). ... The Sikorsky S-42 was the first real transoceanic flying boat. ...

April

• Mitsubishi G3M (as Ka-9 prototype)
• April 17 - De Havilland Dragon Rapide
• April 17 - Fairey Swordfish prototype K 4190

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May

• May 9 - De Havilland Hornet Moth
• May 11 - Douglas DC-2

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June

• June 26 - Airspeed Envoy

June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 188 days remaining. ... Airspeed AS.6 Envoy was a British light, twin-engined transport aircraft designed and built by Airspeed Ltd. ...

July

• July 27 - Supermarine Stranraer

July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 157 days remaining. ... The Supermarine Stranraer marked the end of biplane flying-boat devlopment for the Royal Air Force. ...

August

• PZL.23 Karas
• August 14 - Dewoitine D.510

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September

• September 7 - Hawker Hardy
• September 8 - De Havilland DH.88
• September 12 - Gloster Gladiator
• September 12 - Hawker Hind

September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... The Hawker Hart was a two-seater biplane light-bomber of the Royal Air Force (RAF), which had a prominent role during the RAFs inter-war period. ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... The de Havilland DH.88 Comet was an aircraft designed for one very specific purpose - to win the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race for Britain. ... September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ... Gloster Gladiator photographed in England in 2002 The Gloster Gladiator was a biplane fighter, used by the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy, as well as a number of other air forces, during World War II. The aircraft had a top speed of around 414 km/h. ... The Hawker Hind was an Royal Air Force light-bomber of the inter-war years. ...

October

• October 7 - Tupolev SB

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November

• November 23 - Bloch MB.210

November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... The MB.210 and MB.211 were the successors of the French Bloch MB.200 bomber aircraft built by Societé des Avions Marcel Bloch in the 1930s. ...

Entered service

May

• May 18 - Douglas DC-2 with Transcontinental and Western Air

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