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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1911:

1 Events

January

• January 18 - Eugene Ely lands on the deck of the USS PennsylvaniaThe second USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4 also referred to "Armored Cruiser No. 4", and later renamed Pittsburgh and numbered CA-4 was a United States Navy armored cruiser, the lead ship of her class. She was laid down 7 August 1901 by William Cramp and Sons, Ph anchored in San Francisco BayThe San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary in which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. Technically, the Sacrame, marking the first time an aircraft landedLanding is the last part of a flight where a flying animal or aircraft returns to the ground. Hitting the ground too hard is prevented by wings (including rotor wings), a parachute or rockets or a vertically directed jet engine; in the case of a balloon t on a ship.

February

• February 5February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 329 days remaining (330 in leap years). Events 1576 Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France. 1631 Roger Williams emigra - the first undisputed aeroplane flight in New ZealandFor alternative meanings, see New Zealand (disambiguation). New Zealand is a country formed of two major islands and a number of smaller islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. A common Mori name for New Zealand is Aotearoa popularly translated as Land is made by Vivian Walsh at AucklandAuckland in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest metropolitan area in the South Pacific Ocean. In Mori it bears the name Tmaki Makau Rau or karana . At 37 degrees south latitude, the Auckland urban area lies between the Hauraki Gulf of the Paci
• February 18February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 316 days remaining (317 in leap years). Events 3102 BC Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga. 1478 George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of - the first airmailAirmail (or air mail is mail that is transported by aircraft. It typically arrives more quickly than surface mail, and costs more to send. Airmail may be the only option for sending mail to some destinations, such as overseas, if the mail cannot wait the is carried by an aeroplane. Henri Pequet carries mail across the Jumna River, from Allahabad to Naini Junction , India.

March

• the Spanish Air Force is created as the Aeronáutica militar Española, with four aircraft.
• March 23 - Louis Breguet carries 11 passengers a distance of 5 km (3.1 miles)

April

• April 1 - The first flying unit of the British Military, the Air Battalion Royal Engineers formed.
• April 12 - Pierre Prier makes the first non-stop flight from London to Paris

May

• May 31 - Andre Beaumont beats Roland Garros in the Paris to Rome air race, completing the 1,465 km (910 mile) course in 28 hours, 5 minutes.

July

• July 4 - First ever commercial cargo to be carried by an aircraft. The General Electric company paid £100 to have a case of electric lamps flown from Shoreham to Hove in England.

September

• September 9 - the first British airmail flight is made. Gustav Hamel flies from Hendon to Windsor.
• September 23 - the first US airmail flight is made. Earle Ovington flies 9.7 km (6 miles) from Nassau Boulevard, New York to Mineola, Long Island

October

• October 19 - Eugene Ely died in an aircrash.
• October 22 - First aircraft to be used in war was an Italian Army Blériot XI flown from Tripoli to Azizia to spy on Turkish positions.
• October 24 - Orville Wright soars in a glider 9 minutes and 45 seconds over dunes near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

November

• November 5 - Calbraith Rodgers completes the first coast-to-coast airplane flight across the USA by the Vin Fiz Flyer - taking 49 days, with several crashes en-route.