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On This Day: 1916

Aviation events for 1916

February 6: The airline Deutsche Luft Reederei flies its first service, which is freight only, between Berlin and Weimar.
 
April 18: The first all-American air squadron in Europe is formed at the French spa town of Luxevil-les-Bains. Nieuport Squadron Nº 124, unofficially know as the "Escadrille Américaine" [American Squadron], is composed of volunteers who will be under the command of a French captain, Georges Thénault.
 
June 9: With an envelope capacity of 170,000 cu. ft. and an endurance of 11 hours, the first of 45 Coastal (C)-type, nonrigid British airships ordered for the Royal Naval Air Service makes its first flight from the airship station at Pembroke.
 
June 13: The Zeppelin-Lindau Dornier Rs II hydroplane, piloted by Schröter and Schulte, succeeds in taking off from Lake Constance, Germany, and makes a four-minute flight.
 
July 12: The United States Navy armored cruiser North Carolina becomes the first ship to launch an aircraft by catapult while underway, launching a Curtiss flying boat piloted by Lieutenant Godfrey Chevalier.
 
July 15: Timber merchant William E. Boeing forms a new aircraft company, the Pacific Aero Products Company.
 
August 1: The first issue of America’s most influential and long-running aircraft magazine appears at a price of 5 cents. Called Aviation and Aeronautical Engineering, it is ancestor of Aviation Week & Space Technology and is published twice a month.
 
September 2: Airplanes communicate in flight for the first time via radio.
 
September 12: The 1st pilotless radio-controlled aerial bomb is tested in the United States. It is actually a small biplane that can fly radio-guided for 50 miles with 308 pounds of bombs aboard.
 
December 20: The US Army Balloon School is established in Fort Omaha, Nebraska.
 
 
 

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