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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 .
  • The engineer Maurice Stanislas Léger's helicopter lifts a person vertically into the air in Monaco.
  • U.S. Army Signal Corps transferred all balloon school activities to Fort Omaha, Nebraska.

January–December

  • 18 January &ndash; The Wright brothers begin discussions with the United States Government about selling it an airplane.
  • 16–20 March &ndash; Daniel Maloney is launched by balloon in a tandem-wing glider designed by John Montgomery and makes three successful flights at Aptos, California, the highest launch being at with an 18-minute descent to a predetermined landing location.
  • 27 April &ndash; Sapper Moreton of the British Army's balloon section is lifted by a kite at Aldershot under the supervision of the kite's designer, Samuel Cody.
  • 29 April &ndash; Daniel Maloney is launched by balloon in a tandem-wing glider designed by John Montgomery to an altitude of
  • 14 July &ndash; Orville Wright has a serious crash with Wright Flyer III, upon which the Wright Brothers radically alter the aircraft. The front rudder is mainly the culprit for the Flyer's insistent pitching.
  • 18 July &ndash; 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.
  • September &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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.
  • 4 October &ndash; 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.
  • 5 October &ndash; Wilbur Wright makes a flight of over Huffman Prairie in the Flyer III. The flight lasts for 39 minutes 23 seconds.
  • 14 October &ndash; The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) is founded in Paris.
  • 15 October &ndash; The Wright brothers record a flight of just over in 28 minutes in the Wright Flyer III.
  • 16 October &ndash; The Wright brothers complete their 1905 test flight program, making their last flight until May 1908.