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1910 in aviation

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\n|-\n|align=center|1905\n|-\n|align=center|1906\n|-\n|align=center|1907\n|-\n|align=center|1908\n|-\n|align=center|1909\n|-\n|align=center style="background:#87CEEB"|1910\n|-\n|align=center|1911\n|-\n|align=center|1912\n|-\n|align=center|1913\n|-\n|align=center|1914\n|-\n|align=center|1915\n|} This is a list of aviation-related events from 1910:

Events

\nJanuary First International Air Races in America. Held at Los Angeles. March\n*
March 10 - Emil Aubrun makes the first night flights, in a Blériot Type IX at Villalugano, Argentina.\n* March 13 - Paul Engelhard makes the first flight in Switzerland, flying a Wright biplane from a frozen lake at St Moritz\n* March 28 - Henri Fabre makes the first flights in a seaplane at Matigues, France April\n* The French Air Force is formed as its own command, with a total of five aircraft. June\n* June 2 - Charles Rolls makes the first successful return flight over the English Channel July\n* July 12 - Charles Rolls is killed in a crash at Bournemouth, becoming the first British aviation fatality\n \n* August 27 Frederick Baldwin and John McCurdy, using a Curtiss biplane, are the first pilots to send radio messages to the ground. October\n* Romanian inventor Henri Coanda (1886-1972), constructed the first prototypical thermojet, in the world, named the Coanda-1910, exhibited at the International Aeronautical Show in Paris and tested near Paris.\n* October 2 - the first mid-air collision takes place near Milan. Both pilots survive, but one is badly injured. November\n* November 14 - Eugene Ely takes off from a temporary platform erected over the bow of the light cruiser USS Birmingham, the first take-off from a ship. December\n* December 23 - Lt Theodore Ellyson of the United States Navy is assigned to flight training with the Curtiss company, making him the first naval aviator.

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