1934 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1934:

Years in aviation: 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937

Events

January

  • January 10–11 A flight of six United States Navy Consolidated P2Y flying boats sets a new distance record for formation flying of 2,400 miles (3,900 km) between San Francisco, and Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii. They also set a new speed record for this crossing of 24 hours 35 minutes.
  • January 15 On the final leg of a flight that began on 5 January in Saigon, French Indochina with stops at Karachi, British India; Baghdad, Iraq; Marseille, France; and Lyons, France the Air France Dewoitine D.332 Emeraude (registration F-AMMY) strikes a hill and crashes in a snowstorm at Corbigny, France, while flying from Lyons to Paris–Le Bourget Airport outside Paris, killing all ten people on board.[4]
  • January 30 Soviet aeronauts Pavel Fedosenko, Andrey Vasenko, and Ilya Usyskin take the hydrogen-filled high-altitude balloon Osoaviakhim-1 on its maiden flight to a record-setting altitude of 72,182 feet (22,001 meters), where it remains for twelve minutes. The 7-hour 14-minute flight – during which the balloon travels 470 kilometers (292 miles( from its launch site – ends in tragedy when the crew loses control of the balloon during its descent and the gondola disintegrates and crashes near the village of Potizh-Ostrog in Insarsky District of Mordovian Autonomous Oblast in the Soviet Union, killing the crew.[5][6]

February

March

April

  • Six Soviet and two American airmen rescue the crew of the Soviet commercial icebreaker Chelyuskin from the ice of the Chukchi Sea, where the ship had sunk on February 13.[15]
  • April 11 - Renato Donati of Italy sets a new world altitude record of 14,433 m (47,352 ft) in a Caproni Ca 113.[16]

May

  • May 7 U.S. Army Air Corps delivery of U.S. Air Mail comes to an end. During the 78 days of delivering air mail, 12 Army air crew have died in 66 accidents. The losses convince U.S. Army officials of the need to train their pilots in flying at night and in bad weather.[8]
  • May 8–23 Jean Batten sets a new women's speed record between England and Australia. She flies a de Havilland DH.60 and makes the trip in 14 days 22 hours.
  • May 9 An Air France Wibault 282T-12 airliner crashes into the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent, England, killing all six people on board.
  • May 18 The Douglas DC-2 production version of the Douglas DC-1 and forerunner of the Douglas DC-3 enters commercial service, flying for Transcontinental and Western Air on the Columbus, OhioPittsburghNewark route.[17]
  • May 19 The largest heavier-than-air aircraft built anywhere in the 1930s, the 63 meter wingspan, 42 metric tonne takeoff weight, Andrei Tupolev-designed ANT-20 Maksim Gorki, makes its first flight in the Soviet Union.
  • May 28 French Couzinet 71 flying boats begin the first regular air mail service across the South Atlantic Ocean.[7]
  • May 29 Highland Airways commences the first regular airmail service within the United Kingdom, between Inverness and Kirkwall

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

First flights

January

February

March

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August

September

October

November

December

Entered service

January

April

May

November

Retirements

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December

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