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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1907:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 March 1.2 April 1.3 August 1.4 September 1.5 October 1.6 November 2 First flights 2.1 between January and March 2.2 July 2.3 September 2.4 November 2.5 December 3 Entered service

[edit] Events

[edit] March

• March 16 - Léon Delagrange flies a Voison biplane for 30 feet at Château de Bagatelle, France.

[edit] April

• April 6 - Horatio Phillips achieves the first, limited, flight in Great Britain.

[edit] August

• August 1 - An Aeronautical Division is formed in the U.S. Army Signal Corps to oversee "all matters pertaining to military ballooning, air machines, and all kindred subjects".

[edit] September

• September 29 - Louis Breguet and Charles Richet demonstrate their Gyroplane No. 1, the first rotary-wing aircraft to lift a person off the ground. (The craft is still controlled by handlers standing around it on the ground).

[edit] October

• October 12 - Augustus Gaudron crosses the North Sea in a hot air balloon named Mammouth. He flies 1,160 km (721 miles) from The Crystal Palace, London to Lake Vänern, Sweden.
• October 19 - Robert Esnault-Pelterie becomes first pilot to fly using a control stick at Buc, France.

[edit] November

• November 13 - first piloted free flight in a rotary-wing aircraft by Paul Cornu at Lisieux. This first flight lifted Cornu about 30 cm (1 ft) and lasted 20 seconds. Sometimes recognized as first impractical helicopter flight.

[edit] First flights

[edit] between January and March

• The Bleriot V is flown for the 1st time.

[edit] July

• July 11 - Blériot Type VI Libellule

[edit] September

• September 10 - Nulli Secundus, the British Army's first airship

[edit] November

• November 10 - Blériot Type VII, first aircraft of conventional modern configuration

[edit] December

• December 6 - AEA Cygnet, first manned flight of this tethered glider (also referred to as a kite) designed by Alexander Graham Bell. Flight was also first flight for Thomas Selfridge, who would die a year later as the first person killed in the crash of a powered aircraft.

[edit] Entered service

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