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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1908:
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Events
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- The United States Army announces plans to buy flying machines.
January
- Henry Farman wins the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize for making a circular flight of over 1 km (0.6 miles).
May
- May 14 - Charles Furnas becomes the first passenger in an aeroplane, piloted by Wilbur Wright. First heavy-than-air passenger carrying flight. Wilbur Wright flew Charles W. Furnas for 22 seconds in the Wright 1905 Flyer, modified with seats for pilot and passenger. Shortly after, Orville flew Furnas for four minutes.
June
- June 8 - Alliot Verdon Roe flies his first aircraft at Brooklands, Surrey.
- June 28 - Jacob Ellehammer makes the first piloted, powered aeroplane flight in Germany.
July
- July 4 - Glenn H. Curtiss is awarded the Scientific American trophy for a public flight of over 1 km. Curtiss flies 1,550 m (5,090 ft).
- July 8 - Thérèse Peltier becomes the first woman to fly in an aeroplane. She is a passenger on a flight made by Lèon Delagrange at Turin.
September
- Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge became the first person killed in a powered airplane and the first military aviation casualty when Orville Wright crashed his two-passenger plane during military tests at Fort Myer in Virginia.
- September 9, Orville Wright flies 1 hour 3 minutes and 15 seconds.
October
- October 5, the Zeppelin-airship LZ IV destroyed by fire at Echterdingen.
- October 14, Henry Farman makes the first cross-country flight in a power-driven aeroplane, from Bouy to Reims (27 km) in 20 minutes.
- October 16 - Samuel Cody makes the first generally recognised aeroplane flight in the UK in his British Army Aeroplane No. 1.
- October 18, Wilbur Wright climbs to 115 metres above Auvours.
December
- December 31 - Wilbur Wright wins a prize of FF 20,000 from Michelin for the longest flight of the year - 124 km (77 miles) from Camp d'Auvours.
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