1849 – In 1849, Austrian forces besieging Venice launched some 200
incendiary balloons, each carrying a 24- to 30-pound bomb that was to be dropped from the balloon with a time fuse over the besieged city. The balloons were launched from land and from the Austrian navy ship
SMS Vulcano that acted as a
balloon carrier.[1][2]
1910 – The first experimental take-off of a heavier-than-air craft from the deck of a
US Navy vessel, the cruiser
USS Birmingham
1910 – First bombing attack against a surface ship: Didier Masson and Captain Joaquín Bauche Alcalde, flying for Mexican Revolutionist Venustiano Carranza, dropped dynamite bombs on Federalist gunboats at Guaymas, Mexico, on 10 May 1913.
1914 – In October, a plane[who?] is shot down by another aircraft[who?] with a handgun over Rheims, France.
1914 – The first conventional air-to-air kill occurs on 5 October when a gunner on a French
Voisin machine-guns a German
Aviatik reconnaissance aircraft in
World War I.[5]
1918 - The
Royal Air Force, the world's first independent air force is formed.
1918 -
HMS Argus (I49) became "the world's first carrier capable of launching and landing naval aircraft".[6]
^Geoffrey Till, "Adopting the Aircraft Carrier: The British, Japanese, and American Case Studies" in Murray, Williamson; Millet, Allan R, eds. (1996). Military Innovation in the Interwar Period. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 194.
ISBN0-521-63760-0.
1849 – In 1849, Austrian forces besieging Venice launched some 200
incendiary balloons, each carrying a 24- to 30-pound bomb that was to be dropped from the balloon with a time fuse over the besieged city. The balloons were launched from land and from the Austrian navy ship
SMS Vulcano that acted as a
balloon carrier.[1][2]
1910 – The first experimental take-off of a heavier-than-air craft from the deck of a
US Navy vessel, the cruiser
USS Birmingham
1910 – First bombing attack against a surface ship: Didier Masson and Captain Joaquín Bauche Alcalde, flying for Mexican Revolutionist Venustiano Carranza, dropped dynamite bombs on Federalist gunboats at Guaymas, Mexico, on 10 May 1913.
1914 – In October, a plane[who?] is shot down by another aircraft[who?] with a handgun over Rheims, France.
1914 – The first conventional air-to-air kill occurs on 5 October when a gunner on a French
Voisin machine-guns a German
Aviatik reconnaissance aircraft in
World War I.[5]
1918 - The
Royal Air Force, the world's first independent air force is formed.
1918 -
HMS Argus (I49) became "the world's first carrier capable of launching and landing naval aircraft".[6]
^Geoffrey Till, "Adopting the Aircraft Carrier: The British, Japanese, and American Case Studies" in Murray, Williamson; Millet, Allan R, eds. (1996). Military Innovation in the Interwar Period. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 194.
ISBN0-521-63760-0.