1905 in aviation

Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Yearbox Template:Portal This is a list of aviation-related events from 1905:

Events

• In Santa Clara, California, Daniel J. Maloney flies for 20 minutes with a glider after starting from a balloon at a height of Template:Convert.
• The engineer Maurice Stanislas Léger's helicopter lifts a person vertically into the air in Monaco.Template:Cn
• U.S. Army Signal Corps transferred all balloon school activities to Fort Omaha, Nebraska.

January–December

• 18 January – The Wright brothers begin discussions with the United States Government about selling it an airplane.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 16–20 March – Daniel Maloney is launched by balloon in a tandem-wing glider designed by John Montgomery<ref name=johnsenJan2018>Johnsen, Frederick A., "Mother Ships," Aviation History, January 2018, p. 48.</ref> and makes three successful flights at Aptos, California, the highest launch being at Template:Convert with an 18-minute descent to a predetermined landing location.Template:Citation needed
• 27 April – Sapper Moreton of the British Army's balloon section is lifted Template:Convert by a kite at Aldershot under the supervision of the kite's designer, Samuel Cody.
• 29 April – Daniel Maloney is launched by balloon in a tandem-wing glider designed by John Montgomery to an altitude of Template:Convert<ref name=johnsenJan2018/> before release and gliding and then landing at a predetermined location as part of a large public demonstration of aerial flight at Santa Clara, California].Template:Citation needed
• 6 June – Gabriel Voisin lifts off of and flies along the River Seine in his float-glider towed by a motorboat.
• 23 June – The Wright brothers fly the Wright Flyer III for the first time. It is the first fully controllable and practical version of the original 1903 Wright Flyer.<ref name="century-of-flight.net">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 14 July – Orville Wright has a serious crash with Wright Flyer III, upon which the Wright Brothers radically alter the aircraft. The front rudder{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B=

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• 18 July – Daniel Maloney launches a tandem-wing glider designed by John Montgomery at Santa Clara, California. A balloon cable damages the glider and upon release Maloney and the aircraft fall uncontrolled to the ground, killing Maloney.<ref name=johnsenJan2018/> This is the third death of a heavier-than-air aircraft pilot after Otto Lilienthal in 1896 and Percy Pilcher in 1899.Template:Citation needed
• 5 August – Nineteen-year-old Welshman Ernest Willows makes the first flight of Willows No. 1 a semi-rigid airship he had built.
• 31 August –Balloonist John Baldwin accidentally killed during a premature dynamite/balloon stunt at County Fair, Greenville Ohio<ref>Aviation Safety Network database</ref>
• September – The Wright Brothers resume flight experiments with the re-designed Flyer III with performance of the airplane immediately in the positive. Smooth controlled flights lasting over 20 minutes now occur.
• 7 September – Flying circles over a cornfield near Dayton, Ohio, and chasing flocks of birds, Orville Wright records history's first bird strike. The dead bird lays on the airplane's wing before Wright makes a sharp turn and dumps it off.<ref>Brotak, Ed, "When Birds Strike," Aviation History, May 2016, p. 46.</ref>
• 4 October – Piloting the Flyer III over Huffman Prairie outside Dayton, Ohio, Orville Wright makes the first airplane flight in history of over 30 minutes in length.<ref>Daniel, Clifton, ed., Chronicle of the 20th Century, Mount Kisco, New York: Chronicle Publications, 1987, Template:ISBN, p. 82.</ref>
• 5 October – Wilbur Wright makes a flight of Template:Convert over Huffman Prairie in the Flyer III. The flight lasts for 39 minutes 23 seconds.
• 14 October – The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) is founded in Paris.
• 15 October – The Wright brothers record a flight of just over Template:Convert in 28 minutes in the Wright Flyer III.<ref>Franks, Norman, Aircraft vs. Aircraft: The Illustrated Story of Fighter Pilot Combat From 1914 to the Present Day, London: Grub Street, 1998, Template:ISBN, p. 7.</ref>
• 16 October – The Wright brothers complete their 1905 test flight program, making their last flight until May 1908.<ref name="century-of-flight.net"/>
• 30 November – At Lake Constance, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's LZ2 airship is damaged significantly while attempting its first launch.<ref name="century-of-flight.net"/>
• December – Neil MacDermid is carried aloft in Canada by a large box kite named The Siamese Twins, designed by Alexander Graham Bell.