09.08.2011, 08:32
Extracts from "History of airplanes" (Christopher Chant - Michael J. H. Taylor, 2001):
1910-01-19: Lt. Paul Beck (U.S. Army) , passenger on an unspecified plane, drops fake bombs (sandbags) over Los Angeles.
1910-06-30: Glenn Hammond drops fake bombs over a ship-shaped target, on Keuka Lake.
1910-07-24: German flyer August Euler patents a plane-mounted machine gun, and later demonstrates it on his own biplane, "Gelber Hund".
1910-08-20: Lt. J.E. Fickel (U.S. Army), passenger on a Curtiss plane, fires a Spingfield rifle at a ground target in Sheepshead Bay (N.Y.)
1911-10-22: Capt. Piazza (Italian fleet) flies a Blériot monoplane from Tripoli to Aziza, in a recon flight to locate Turkish troops: this is the first recorded use of an airplane in an active military action.
1911-11-01: 2nd Lt. Giulio Gavotti (Italian fleet) drops grenades over Turkish troops in Taguira oasis and Ain Zara: first bombing action performed by an airplane.
1912-06-07: first airborne firing tests of a plane-mounted machine gun (a Wright B model)
November 1913: Mexico houses the first air combat, as the crews of two planes (flown by Dean Ivan Lamb, flying for Venustiano Carranza and by Phillip Rader, flying for Gen. Huerta) engage a firefight using conventional rifles.
1910-01-19: Lt. Paul Beck (U.S. Army) , passenger on an unspecified plane, drops fake bombs (sandbags) over Los Angeles.
1910-06-30: Glenn Hammond drops fake bombs over a ship-shaped target, on Keuka Lake.
1910-07-24: German flyer August Euler patents a plane-mounted machine gun, and later demonstrates it on his own biplane, "Gelber Hund".
1910-08-20: Lt. J.E. Fickel (U.S. Army), passenger on a Curtiss plane, fires a Spingfield rifle at a ground target in Sheepshead Bay (N.Y.)
1911-10-22: Capt. Piazza (Italian fleet) flies a Blériot monoplane from Tripoli to Aziza, in a recon flight to locate Turkish troops: this is the first recorded use of an airplane in an active military action.
1911-11-01: 2nd Lt. Giulio Gavotti (Italian fleet) drops grenades over Turkish troops in Taguira oasis and Ain Zara: first bombing action performed by an airplane.
1912-06-07: first airborne firing tests of a plane-mounted machine gun (a Wright B model)
November 1913: Mexico houses the first air combat, as the crews of two planes (flown by Dean Ivan Lamb, flying for Venustiano Carranza and by Phillip Rader, flying for Gen. Huerta) engage a firefight using conventional rifles.