October 26, 1909. Lt. Frederick E. Humphreys becomes the first
 Army pilot to solo in the Wright Military Flyer at College Park, Md.
 A few minutes later, Lt. Frank P. Lahm becomes the second.
     November 3, 1909. Lt. George C. Sweet becomes the first Navy
 officer to fly, as a passenger in the Wright Military Flyer.
     January 19, 1910. Signal Corps Lt. Paul Beck, flying as a pas-
 senger with Louis Paulhan in a Farman biplane, drops three two-pound
 sandbags in an effort to hit a target at the Los Angeles Flying Meet.
 This is the first bombing experiment by an Army officer.
     March 2, 1910. Benjamin Foulois becomes the first Army officer
 to fly an Army airplane.
     March 19, 1910. Orville Wright opens the first Wright Flying
 School at Montgomery, Ala., on a site that will later become Maxwell
 AFB.
     May 25, 1910. In Dayton, Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright fly
 together for the first time.
     July 10, 1910. Walter Brookins becomes the first airplane pilot
 to fly at an altitude greater than one mile. He reaches 6,234 feet
 in a Wright biplane over Atlantic City, N.J.
     July 10, 1910. Leon Morane pushes the recognized absolute speed
 record to 66.181 mph in a Bleriot monoplane at Reims, France.
     August 20, 1910. Army Lt. Jacob Fickel fires a .30-caliber
 Springfield rifle at the ground while flying as a passenger in a
 Curtiss biplane over Sheepshead Bay Track near New York, N.Y. This
 is the first time a military firearm has been discharged from an
 airplane.
     September 2, 1910. Blanche Scott becomes the first American woman
 to solo, flying a Curtiss pusher at the Curtiss company field in
 Hammondsport, N.Y. She is not granted a pilot's license, however.
     October 11, 1910. Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the
 first Chief Executive to fly. He goes aloft as a passenger in a
 Wright biplane over Saint Louis, Mo.
     November 7, 1910. Phillip O. Parmalee performs the world's first
 air cargo mission, flying a bolt of silk from Dayton to Columbus,
 Ohio.
     November 14, 1910. Navy Lt. Eugene Ely, in a Curtiss biplane,
 takes off from the deck of a modified cruiser, USS Birmingham.
     January 18, 1911. Navy Lt. Eugene Ely, flying a Curtiss pusher,
 makes the first landing on a ship. He touches down on a 119-foot-
 long wooden platform on the stern of the cruiser USS Pennsylvania,
 riding at anchor in San Francisco Bay.
     February 1, 1911. The first licensed aircraft manufacturer in
 the US, the Burgess and Curtis Co. (no relation to the company
 founded by Glenn Curtiss), of Marblehead, Mass., receives
 authorization from the Wright Co.
     March 3, 1911. The first appropriation for Army air operations-
 -$25,000--is authorized for Fiscal Year 1912.
     April 11, 1911. The Army's first permanent flying school is
 established at College Park, Md.
     May 8, 1911. The first Navy airplane, A-1, an amphibian, is
 ordered from Glenn Curtiss. This date has been officially proclaimed
 the birthday of naval aviation.
     May 12, 1911. Edward Nieuport sets the recognized absolute speed
 record of 74.415 mph in a Nieuport monoplane at Chalons, France. On
 June 16, he will push the speed record to 80.814 mph.
     September 17-December 10, 1911. Calbraith Perry Rodgers, in the
 Wright EX biplane Vin Fiz, makes the first transcontinental flight,
 from Sheepshead Bay, N.Y., to Long Beach, Calif. He makes seventy-
 six stops and crashes twenty times.
     February 22, 1912. Jules Vedrines pushes the recognized absolute
 speed record past the 100 mph barrier, as he hits 100.22 mph in a
 Deperdussin racer at Pau, France.
     February 23, 1912. First official recognition of the rating
 "Military Aviator" appears in War Department Bulletin No. 2.
     June 5, 1912. Lt. Col. C.B. Winder of the Ohio National Guard
 becomes the first National Guard pilot. He was taught at the Army
 Aviation School.
     June 14, 1912. Cpl. Vernon Burge becomes the Army's first
 enlisted pilot.
     July 5, 1912. Capt. Charles DeF. Chandler and Lts. T.D. Milling
 and H.H. Arnold become the first flyers to qualify as "Military
 Aviators."
     November 5, 1912. First artillery adjustments directed from a
 plane begin at Fort Riley, Kan., by Lts. H.H. Arnold, pilot, and
 Follett Bradley, observer.
     November 27, 1912. The Army Signal Corps purchases the first of
 three Curtiss-F two-seat biplane flying boats.
     December 11, 1912. A French pilot, Roland Garros, sets an alti-
 tude record of 18,406 feet in a Morane airplane at Tunis.
     February 11, 1913. The first bill for a separate aviation corps,
 H.R. 28728, is introduced in Congress by Rep. James Hay of W.Va. It
 fails to pass.
     March 2, 1913. First flight pay is authorized: thirty-five per-
 cent over base pay for officers detailed on aviation duty.
     March 5, 1913. Field Order No. 1, Hq. First Aero Squadron in
 the field near Texas City, Tex., states: "The First Aero Squadron
 is hereby organized." The organization is provisional.
     April 27, 1913. Pilot Robert G. Fowler and cameraman R.A. Duhem
 make the first flight across the Isthmus of Panama. They are arrested
 by Panamanian authorities upon publication in a newspaper of the
 story and pictures of the flight.
     May 10, 1913. Air bombing in America was inaugurated when Didier
 Masson begins a series of bombing raids for Mexican Gen. Alvarado
 Obregon against Mexican Federal gunboats in Guaymas Bay.
     May 13, 1913. The first flight of the world's first four-engine
 airplane, The Russian Knight, affectionately called "Le Grand," takes
 place in Russia. The aircraft is designed by Igor I. Sikorsky.
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