29 June 1914

On June 29th 1914, for the first time a meal was served on an aeroplane, aboard Igor I. Sikorsky's Ilya Mourometz I, during a flight from Petrograd to Kiev.

28 June 1914

German pilot Werner Landmann, flying as a civilian in an Albatros biplane, set a new world solo endurance record with a nonstop flight made June 28, 1914 (21 hours, 49 minutes) over Johannisthal Air Field outside Berlin, Germany.

27 June 1914

An Austrian Army Air Service-operated Lloyd C I produced by Lloyd Aeroplane and Motor Company, Ltd., of Aszod, Budapest and powered by a l20hp Austro-Daimler set a new altitude record of 21,709 feet on 27 June 1914. The pilot was Leutnant Heinrich Bier.

26 June 1914

The first known instance of an aircraft being used for the purpose of news illustration occurred on June 26, 1914. An airplane of the Burgess Co. of Marblehead, Mass., piloted by Clifford L. Webster, was used by Boston Journal photographer George T. Murray to record the ruin wrought by the fire of June 25th which destroyed a large portion of the city of Salem, Mass.

25 June 1914

Silas Christofferson established a new American altitude record of 15,728 feet on June 25, 1914 when he flew across the summit of Mt. Whitney in California. Christofferson flew a biplane of his own design powered by a 90 HP Curtiss engine.

24 June 1914

Igor Sikorsky set an unofficial world distance record on June 24, 1914 by flying a 1,590-mile round trip flight from Saint Petersburg to Kiev, Russia in the Il'ya Muromets.

23 June 1914

The naval wing of Britain's Royal Flying Corps became the Royal Naval Air Service on 23 June 1914 in accordance with Admiralty Weekly Order No 2.

22 June 1914

The Curtiss-Wanamaker America flying boat was christened on 22 June 1914 at Hammondsport, NY. It was built to compete for a $50,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail for the first transatlantic crossing by a flying machine. Trials of the large aircraft, also known as the Model H, began the next day but preparations for the crossing were interrupted by the onset of the First World War.

21 June 1914

June 21, 1914 saw the start of a flying meeting at Aspern, Vienna, where the first prototype of the Morane-Saulnier Type N had its public debut. It was flown by the famous French pilot Roland Garros. This type was an attempt to achieve the performance of the Deperdussin monocoques (then the most advanced aircraft in the world) but with much simpler construction. It was powered by an 80hp Gnome rotary engine and had no ailerons; lateral control was by wing warping.

20 June 1914

On 20 June 1914 the Austro-Hungarian airship "M III" left Fischamend, near Vienna and a Farman HF.20 biplane piloted by Lt. Flatz set off in pursuit. The aeroplane overtook the dirigible at a height of 400 metres. It attempted to rise over the airship, but the aircraft collided. An explosion followed. The seven occupants of the airship were killed and burnt to an unrecognisable extent. The aeroplane fell not far from the wreck of the airship, and both the pilot and his passenger, Naval Lt. Puchta, were killed instantly.

19 June 1914

One of the leading Russian pilots — G. Jankovsky — was killed close to Gatchina on the 19th of June 1914, when his machine fell from a height of 100 metres.

18 June 1914

Lawrence B. Sperry demonstrated his father Elmer’s gyrostabilizer, fitted to a Curtiss C-2 biplane, before a large crowd at the international airplane safety competition in Paris, France on June 18th, 1914. This demonstration earned the Sperrys a 50,000 franc prize. Elmer A. Sperry was awarded the 1914 Collier Trophy for gyroscopic control.

17 June 1914

The Royal Aircraft Factory's S.E.4 was designed by Henry P. Folland. The new scout, completed 17 June 1914, represented the most advanced aerodynamic thought at the time, and the care taken over reduction of drag, coupled with the power from its 160 h.p. Gnome, gave a top speed of 135 m.p.h., making it the world's fastest aircraft. The engine proved troublesome, bringing about the premature end of its production. After some further flying, damage in a landing accident resulted in the abandonment of the development of the S.E.4.

16 June 1914

The Avro 504A carrying serial number 390 was delivered to the Royal Flying Corps at Farnborough on 16 June 1914. The aircraft was assigned to 5 Squadron. About two months later it would be the first RFC aircraft lost to enemy action in the First World War.

14 June 1914

On June 14, 1914, William M. Stark's Curtiss seaplane was taken out for a test run on the waters of Burrard Inlet at Vancouver. He taxied over the water for some time to get the feel of things, then in the vicinity of Brockton Point he gave the engine full power, and the craft lifted into the air without effort. After a practice landing near Prospect Point, Stark continued his flight, going around Stanley Park and alighting on the waters of English Bay. His was the first aircraft to fly through the entrance to Vancouver Harbour.

13 June 1914

During Maurice Guillaux's 13 June 1914 display at Ballarat he ‘caused excitement by diving towards a crowd of people and the crowd stampeded in all directions, fearing that the aviator was going to sweep them off. Guillaux deftly righted the machine and continued his flight’. Guillaux made three flights. In the third, ‘there was more sensation, head-diving, turning on the side, and upside-down flying, and a much higher altitude was reached. It was late by the time the exhibition closed, but all waited to see the end and went away impressed with the possibilities of aviation’.

12 June 1914

Despite having been found to have many deficiencies after its first flight late in 1913, the first Curtiss Model G was accepted by the Signal Corps (at a cost of $5,500) on 12 June 1914 as S.C. No. 21. It had been extensively modified prior to delivery and was then fitted with floats for Hawaiian service. After a few months the Corps gave up on it and sold it out of service.

11 June 1914

June 11, 1914, in Buc (France) at a "Concours de Sécurité", airplanes including the deMonge Parasol (flown by Edouard Lumiere) were tested for stability. The deMonge didn't win a prize but it did win its pilot's approval. Lumiere said, "Returning from Chartres on the de Monge, I had 30 kilometers behind me at a height of 450 meters when I was surprised by a powerful storm. I was blinded by heavy rain, lost my sense of orientation and didn’t even know if I was flying horizontal. The machine behaved very well under these extreme circumstances. We floated in the air like a bird and I did not feel the temptation to hold the stick more tightly, it was as if we were motionless in the air as with quiet weather."

10 June 1914

The Wellington (KS) Daily Express reported on June 10, 1914: "Clyde Cessna, farmer-aviator, looped the loop, made a figure eight over Adams today [Jun 9] and glided gracefully down to the front door of the new State Bank of Adams. Then he stepped from the machine, doffed his cap to the astonished onlookers, walked into the bank and made the first deposit in the new institution."

9 June 1914

A record flight for the Michelin Cup was made on June 8-9 by Eugene Gilbert on a Morane-Saulnier monoplane with 80 h.p. Rhone motor . Starting from Villacoublay at 3:10 a.m. on the 8th and landed at Mirande on the way to Pau, owing to his petrol supply giving out. On Tuesday, the 9th, he flew via Pau, and back to Villacoublay, where he landed at 6:37 p.m., having covered a total distance of very nearly 3,000 km in 39 and 1/2 hrs.

8 June 1914

The Bendigo (Vic.) public witnessed an aviation performance on 8 June 1914 by M. Maurice Guillaux, the French airman. He said subsequently that there was scarcely any wind until he reached an altitude of 3,000 ft., and this enabled him to perform with ease such daring feats in his Bleriot monoplane as looping the loop, flying upside down, and making his sensational perpendicular dive towards the earth.

7 June 1914

On the weekend of 6-7 June 1914, aviator Lincoln J. Beachey and race driver Barney Oldfield demonstrated aeroplane vs automobile racing at Driving Park in Columbus, OH.

6 June 1914

The Aerial Derby, sponsored by the Daily Mail, was a circuit around London starting and ending at Hendon. The 1914 race had been postponed to 6 June due to poor weather. Weather conditions were little better that day, with some contestants unable to fly to Hendon. Walter L. Brock was the overall winner in 1h 18m 54s (with 20m 24s handicap). He flew a Morane-Saulnier G powered by a 80 hp Gnome engine.

5 June 1914

To test a parachute he had designed for airmen and for escaping from high buildings, on 5 June 1914 Australian aviator and inventor Vincent P. Taylor jumped from the North Sydney Suspension Bridge, at a point 50 meters above the mudflats of Middle Harbour. The canopy opened in 30 meters.

4 June 1914

Lt. Thomas Scholes Creswell of the RFC Naval Wing died on June 4, 1914 along with his passenger, Cmdr. Arthur Rice, RN, when his Wight Navyplane, a pusher biplane, crashed in the Solent. The wings folded in flight at 100 feet and both aviators drowned.

3 June 1914

On June 3, 1914, Eugene Gilbert flew his LeRhone powered Morane-Saulnier monoplane from Vincennes to Camp Sissone then to Rheims, back to Camp Sissone and finally to Villacoublay.

2 June 1914

Lt. Kenneth van der Spuy passed his final examination at the Central Flying School at RAF Upavon in Great Britain on 2 June 1914 and was granted the certificate of the Royal Aero Club, becoming South Africa's first qualified military pilot.

1 June 1914

On June 1, 1914 the M-1 flying boat designed by Ukrainian Dmitry Pavelovich Grigorovich had its first flight. The design was loosely based on the French Donnet-Levesque but with an improved airfoil.