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Development of Air Warfare

30 June 1910

Glenn Curtiss drops dummy bombs on a battle-ship shaped target on Lake Keuka.

20 August 1910

Two shots are fired with a rifle from a Curtiss biplane at a ground target, by Jacob A. Fickel.

7 January 1911

Myron S. Crissy drops a live bomb on a dummy target near San Fransisco.

Februari 1911

The John Moisant flying circus makes reconaissance flights for the Mexican government.

October 1911

Bombardment of Tripoli.

7 June 1912

A Lewis machine gun is tried on an US Army Wright B biplane.

8 February 1913

Fort Bezhani is bombed.

1913

Exchange of pistol shots over Mexico by two single-engined biplanes, piloted by Phil Rader and Dean I. Lamb.

30 May 1913

Flying for the Mexican rebel Carranza, Didier Masson drops light bombs near a number of Mexican gunboats.

27 July 1914

A short tractor seaplane drops a 14 inch naval torpedo.

August 1914

A Royal Flying Corps pilot in France discharges his revolver at a German aircraft.

23 August 1913

French aircraft bomb Mullheim in Germany.

8 September 1914

First aerial victory for a Russian aircraft, when captain P. N. Nesterov, in an unarmed Morane-Saulnier M, rammed an Austrian aircraft. He was killed in the process.

5 October 1914

A Voisin III biplane bomber shoots down a German Aviatik reconaissance aircraft with a Hotchkiss machine gun. This was the first conventional air-to-air kill.

24 December 1914

A German 'Taube' monoplane flown by Leutnant Caspar drops the first bomb on British soil.

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