New England “Firsts”

  1. First Balloon Ascension In Massachusetts – 1821
  2. First Balloon Constructed In Maine – 1889
  3. Boston Kite Flying Experiments – 1890s
  4. Ballooning For Lost Sounds – 1894
  5. Almenia Rice And her Human-Lifting Kite – 1902
  6. A New Kind Of Balloon Race – 1908 
  7. Two Connecticut Men Invent A Glider – 1909
  8. Massachusetts Volunteer Balloon Corps – 1909
  9. Aerial Lodge No 1, A.F. & A.M. – 1909
  10. Joe Seymour – First Aeroplane Flight In New England? – 1910
  11. First Airplane Built In Norwich, Conn. – 1910
  12. First Airplane Built In Vermont – 1910
  13. First Airplane Flight In Vermont – 1910
  14. Herring – Burgess Flying Fish Aeroplane – 1910
  15. The Zodiac Dirigible Airship Company – 1910
  16. First Airplane Trip Across Long Island Sound – 1910  
  17. Caledonia County Fair Airplane Ad – 1910
  18. Connecticut Aero Club – 1910
  19. Early Aviation At Newburyport, Massachusetts
  20. Earl L. Ovington – Early New England Aviator  
  21. Harvard University Aeronautical Society
  22. Harvard-Boston Aero Meet – 1910
  23. Aircraft Aboard Navy Battleship -1911
  24. Harry N. Atwood Cross Country Flight records – 1911
  25. Bridgeport’s Aerodrome – 1911
  26. First Aviation Laws in New England – Conn. – 1911 
  27. First Airplane To Be Insured In Connecticut – 1911
  28. First Passenger Flights In Vermont – 1911
  29. First Woman To Fly An Airplane In Rhode Island – 1912
  30. First Woman To Fly An Airplane In New England – 1912
  31. First Aircraft Used In Sea Rescue – 1914
  32. First U. S. Navy Airship – 1915
  33. First Hydroplane Manufactured In Rhode Island – 1915
  34. First U. S. Navy Dirigible – 1916
  35. Alaska & New England First To Get Air Mail – 1916
  36. Vermont’s First Airport – 1919
  37. First Public Air Trips In Vermont – 1919
  38. First Airmail Flight In Maine – 1919
  39. Early Burlington Vermont Airport Articles – 1920s
  40. Charlie & Charlie Aviation Company – 1920
  41. Connecticut Passenger Seaplane Service – 1921
  42. Arthur Gould’s Vision Of The Future – 1926
  43. First “Air Wedding” In Vermont – 1927
  44. Airplanes Used To Feed Birds – 1931
  45. A Most Unusual Air Battle Over Boston – 1936
  46. Joseph A. Zinno And “The Olympian” – 1976
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