31 October 1913

On October 31, 1913, Eugene Gilbert, in a successful attempt to win the Pommery Cup, left Paris in a Deperdussin at 8:31 a.m., passed over Verviers, 200 miles, at 10 a.m., an landed at Puerniz, Pomerania at 1:45 p.m. covering 650 miles at over 124 mph.

30 October 1913

In the fall of 1913, Belkis Sevket Hanim, a feminist leader, was taken on a flight by Fethi Bey, thus becoming the first Turkish and Muslim woman to fly. Sources vary as to the date of this event but October 30, 1913 is suggested.

29 October 1913

On October 29, 1913, Capt. Salim Bey and Capt. Kemal Bey of the Turkish Air Force flew across the Sea of Marmara in a Deperdussin monoplane.

28 October 1913

Karl Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH was founded in Munich on 28 October 1913, for production of "engines of all types, in particular internal combustion engines for aircraft". Diamler aircraft engine designer Max Friz came to Munich in 1916 to assist, and developed greatly improved engines. This led to the firm being renamed Bayerische Motorenwerke GmbH. BMW AG acknowledges this to be the official beginning of the company we know today.

27 October 1913

The second Deutsch de la Meurthe Cup was won on October 27, 1913 by Eugene Gilbert in a Deperdussin powered by a 14-cyl 160 hp Gnome at 155 km/h .The 190 km course around Paris was flown against the clock and required a speed at least 10% faster than the previous winner's to certify victory.

26 October 1913

On 26 October 1913, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, outlined his future policy for the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). He recommended three new types of aircraft: an overseas fighting seaplane, to operate from a ship, a scouting seaplane to work with the fleet at sea, and a home-defence fighting aeroplane, to repel enemy aircraft and to carry out patrol duties along the British coast.

25 October 1913

Saturday the 25th of October 1913 was the day that a well known aviator named Edwin Prosser flew the first aeroplane, a Caudron biplane of 50 HP, over Cwmamman, Wales. His exhibition consisted of two flights, which could be seen and heard by large numbers of people in all parts of the locality when his plane circled very high in the air.

24 October 1913

In a decree published on 24 October 1913, France established the concept of prohibited areas where civil aviation activities were forbidden, and defined the legal terms under which these would be promulgated.

23 October 1913

On 23 October 1913 the Royal Naval Flying School at Eastchurch, Sheppey conducted the first tests in the UK of bombs dropped from aircraft. The tests were photographed by F. Marten Hale of the Cotton Powder Co., Ltd., the developer of the weapon.

22 October 1913

On October 22, 1913 a record for distance covered in one day with one passenger of 934 miles was made by Schlegel.

21 October 1913

A Burgess H, the first tractor aeroplane of the U.S. Army Signal Corps (and possibly the first air machine specifically designed and built for military use), was delivered Oct. 21, 1913.

20 October 1913

A number of pilots rose to the challenge set by the French Ligue Nationale Aérienne to "test the possibilities for air travel over long distances" by attempting to trailblaze 3,500 miles (5,600 km) to Cairo. The first pilot to attempt the feat was Pierre Daucourt. He took off from the parade ground at Issy in Paris on 20 October 1913, in a Gnôme powered Borel monoplane and headed east. After many difficulties, Daucourt crashed in the Anatolian mountains on 26 November and his machine was completely burnt out.

19 October 1913

Albert Ziegler used a donation from friends and influential people of over 15,000 crowns, to buy an Etrich-Eindecker. With this plane Ziegler flew for the first time over Codlea and Magura Codlea (Transylvania) on the 19th of October 1913.

18 October 1913

On October 18, 1913, pioneer aviator Gustav Hamel piloted the first aeroplane to land on Oulton Heath at Stone, Staffordshire. The event was arranged by Evans and Sons Garage.

17 October 1913

On 17 October 1913 the Imperial German Navy's new L-2 airship exploded and burned during its acceptance test flight. Hydrogen gas (which was being vented) was sucked into the forward engine and ignited. The airship crashed near Johannisthal Air Field about 10 miles southeast of Berlin All 28 passengers and crew on board perished.

16 October 1913

Journal and Tribune, Bristol, Tenn., Oct. 16 (1913) - After one successful attempt today Aviator Alexander C. Beech lifted his machine from a weed field and flew over the fair grounds here time and again this afternoon. His accomplishment was applauded by five thousand people. He will attempt two more flights here Friday afternoon.

15 October 1913

At 12:42 AM on October 15, 1913, Alsatian aviator Victor Stoeffler landed at Mulhausen after flying 1,376 miles in less than 24 hours, shattering the previous record of 867 miles.

14 October 1913

Orville Wright was granted US Patent #1,075,555 on October 14, 1913 for the first effective Automatic Stabilizer for airplanes. He won the prestigious Collier Trophy, recognizing the most significant contribution to aeronautics made during 1913. However, the Wright device was quickly rendered obsolete by the more sophisticated stabilizer developed by Elmer Sperry and demonstrated at Paris in June 1914. Sperry's device won him the 1914 Collier.

13 October 1913

Aviator Albert Jewell disappeared off Long Island, New York, on October 13, 1913, en route in a Moisant-Blériot monoplane from Hempstead to Oakwood, Staten Island to take part in the New York Times American Aerial Derby. No confirmed trace of Jewell or his aircraft was ever recovered.

12 October 1913

Tony Jannus participated in the New York Times Aerial Derby, flying actress Julia Bruns in a Baldwin Red Devil 4,000 ft. above Staten Island for twenty minutes on October 12, 1913.

11 October 1913

On October 11th, 1913, only 4 days after obtaining his pilot license, Sublieutenant Gheorghe Negel, one of Aurel Vlaicu's good friends, took off in his Farman airplane from Cotroceni airfield in Bucharest for a raid to Targoviste. It was there, the city of Targoviste where he graduated from the Cavalry Military School, where he crashed his plane and lost his life.

10 October 1913

As published in the San Francisco Call: "NEW YORK, Oct. 10. 1913 — Albert(sic) Lawson, an aviator, entered in exhibition flights soon to be made around New York, fell into the Hudson river today during a flight. He narrowly escaped drowning, being rescued by a tugboat." Almost certainly refers to Alfred Lawson, erstwhile pro baseballer, coiner of the word "Airliner", later eccentric "educator" and founder of "Lawsonomy".

9 October 1913

Noted aviator Robert G Fowler flew his biplane in a three-day exhibition at the Tri-state Fair in Amarillo, TX beginning on October 9, 1913.

8 October 1913

Slattery's Field, one of Ottawa's earliest airfields, was the site of the first inter-city airmail flight in Canada by William C. Robinson on the 8th of October 1913. He flew newspapers and packages from Montreal, Quebec, to Ottawa, Ontario.

7 October 1913

ROCHESTER, Oct 7 (1913) — Miss Ruth Hildreth, of New York City, was killed, and her sister, Dorothy H., was perhaps fatally injured this afternoon in Hammondsport when Lincoln Beachey lost control of a 100-horsepower aeroplane and it swept a number of spectators off a platform from which they were watching the exhibition. Among those slightly hurt were Lieutenants Richardson and Bellinger, of the United States Navy aviation corps, and Beachey.

6 October 1913

On October 6, 1913, the Royal Navy completed a series of tests involving about 30 flights of a Short Folder seaplane, and a René Caudron amphibian from the protected cruiser HMS Hermes. On at least two occasions the aircraft took off while the Hermes was underway. These experiments greatly influenced the Royal Navy’s approach to deploying aircraft at sea and laid the foundation for the fleet’s aviation operations during World War I.

5 October 1913

The Circuit of the Italian Lakes began October 5, 1913. It was the first international seaplane competition planned by the Milanese Aviation Society. Ten pilots participated: three Italians, five French, one German and one Belgian. The competition covered 370km, calling at various points on Lakes Como and Maggiore, eventually moving inland to Cremona and Piacenza.

4 October 1913

After the destruction on 27 August of the Sopwith entry (piloted by Harry Hawker) in the Daily Mail Circuit of Great Britain for hydro-aeroplanes, another craft of the same design was built in land-plane configuration. Its first flight occurred 4 October 1913 at Brooklands. This flight, too, ended in a crash wherein Hawker again escaped serious injury.

3 October 1913

Pilots soon realized they needed special flying maps with information specific to flying. So on the initiative of International Aviation Federation, an international committee dealing with issues of flying maps met in Brussels on 3 October 1913. At the meeting representatives of Belgium, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Sweden and Switzerland were present.

2 October 1913

On 2 October 1913 Harold Blackburn and Dr. M.G. Christie won the War of the Roses air race, a competition sponsored by the Yorkshire Evening News between the Yorkshire-built Blackburn Type I monoplane and the Lancashire-built Avro 504 biplane, piloted by F. P. Raynham with H. V. Roe as passenger. The race began evenly but in deteriorating conditions Raynham missed a checkpoint, handing the race to the Yorkshire crew.

1 October 1913

Anthony Fokker established Fokker Aviatik GmbH at Johannisthal in Berlin to sell and manufacture aircraft. By late 1913, he had sold a dozen aircraft, had a booming flying school, and was profitable. On 1 October 1913, he re-registered as Fokker Flugzeugwerke GmbH and relocated the factory to Gorres, near Schwerin, in northern Germany; later, the business name was shortened to Fokker Werke GmbH.