1905 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1905:

Table of contents

1 Events 2 First flights 3 Entered service

Events

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 14 - The Defaux brothers demonstrate a model helicopter in Paris. It lifts a payload of 13 lb (6 kg).

• June 6 - Gabriel Voisin flies along the River Seine in a glider towed by a motorboat.

• 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.

• November 30 - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's LZ2 airship is damaged while attempting its first launch.

• Neil MacDermid is carried aloft in Canada by a large box kite named The Siamese Twins, designed by Alexander Graham Bell.

• June 23 - Wright Flyer III