1923 In Aviation

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This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1923 :

EVENTS

January

Air Union is created by the Merger of '' Compagnie Des Messageries Aériennes '' (CMA) with '' Grands Express Aériens '' (CGEA).

February

The first take-off and landing on the new Japanese Aircraft Carrier ''Hōshō'' is made by a British pilot in a Mitsubishi 1MF .

The RAF conducts operations in Southern Iraq against uprisings led by Sheik Mahmud Barzenci .

February 1 - the Danish Army Flying Corps is established

March

Dobrolyot is formed, as the first Soviet civil aviation service. It will later become part of Aeroflot .

March 17 - the US government authorises Army aircraft to drop Calcium Arsenate on Louisiana's Cotton fields in order to kill Weevil s.

April

April 10 - Daimler Airways begins the first scheduled service between London and Berlin (via Bremen and Hamburg ).

April 16 - 17 - Lt John Arthur Macready and Lt Oakley Kelley establish a new endurance record, staying aloft for 36 hours 5 minutes in a Fokker T-2 , covering a distance of 2,518 miles (4,052 km).

May

May 2 -3 - Kelly MacReady complete the first non-stop flight from New York to Los Angeles , in 27 hours in a Fokker T-2.

May 3 - the Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation is formed by Igor Sikorsky at a Long Island chicken farm.

May 23 - Belgian airline SABENA is formed, adding new European routes to SNETA 's routes in Belgian Congo that it takes over.

June

June 14 - New Zealand forms its first military aviation services, fore-runners of the Royal New Zealand Air Force .

July

July 19 - Czechoslovakian airline CSA commences operations.

August

August 21 - first electric Airway Beacon s start appearing at US airfields, to assist in night flying operations.

August 28 - Lt John Richter and Lowell Smith establish a new endurance record of 37 hours 15 minutes in an Airco DH.4 , covering 3,293 miles (5,299 km). They are Refueled fifteen times during the flight.

September

September 5 - US Army bombers carry out anti-shipping exercises, sinking the obsolete battleships USS ''Virginia'' and USS ''New Jersey'' .

September 28 - Schneider Trophy race flown at Cowes , UK. Won by David Rittenhouse ( USA ) in a Curtiss CR.3 at 285.5 km/h (177.4 mph).

October

October 6 - Curtiss R2C s win first and second place in the Pulitzer Trophy Race , the winning aircraft setting a new airspeed record of 243.6 mph (392 km/h).

October 15 – First British Motor Glider competition is flown, at Lympne , Kent .

December

December 21 The French dirigible Dixmude exploded over the Mediterranean Sea en route from Cuers-Pierrefeu to Algeria after being struck by lightning. All 52 crew members on board perished.

FIRST FLIGHTS

January

January 9 - Cierva C.4

January 19 - Armstrong Whitworth Wolf

March

Aero A.18

Hawker Woodcock

May

Gloster Grebe

9 May - Blériot 115

June

June 2 – Boeing XPW-9

June 28 - Armstrong Whitworth Awana

July

July 30 - De Havilland DH.50

August

August 22 - Barling XNBL

August 23 - Polikarpov I-1

September

September 3 - USS ''Shenandoah''

September 3 - Curtiss R2C

October

October 2 - De Havilland Humming Bird

October 23 - Handley Page Hyderabad

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