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

1 Events

• Robert Esnault-Pelterie becomes first pilot to fly using a control stick.

August

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

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).

October

• October 12October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). There are 80 days remaining. Events 1492 Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean. The explorer believes he has reached East Asia. 1609 " Thr - Augustus Gaudron crosses the North SeaThe North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. A bay of the North Sea is Skagerrak, bet in a hot air balloonHot air balloons are the oldest successful human flight technology, dating back to the Montgolfier brothers' invention in Annonay, France in 1783. The first manned flight was made on November 21, 1783, in Paris by Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlan named Mammouth. He flies 1,160 lm (721 miles) from The Crystal PalaceA huge iron and glass building, The Crystal Palace was one of the wonders of, if not the world, Britain. A rebuilt and expanded version of the building that originally housed the Great Exhibition of 1851, it stood in Sydenham from 1854 until 1936, and att, LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri to Lake Vänern, Sweden.

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.