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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1911: == Events == * The French Navy selects the torpedo boat tender ''Foudre'' for conversion into Frances first ship capable of carrying and handling airplanes. She will become the first warship to be permanently altered for use as an aviation ship.〔Layman 1989,p. 17-18.〕 * The Austro-Hungarian Navy establishes an experimental naval air station at Pola.〔Layman 1989, p. 13.〕 * Imperial Japanese Navy officers arrive in France and the United States for flight instruction and to study the production and maintenance of airplanes. They will return to Japan in 1912 as Japans first naval aviators.〔Peattie 2001, p. 4-5.〕 * Imperial Japanese Navy Lieutenant Tetsukichi Isobe privately builds a seaplane out of bamboo. He pilots it for 60 meters (197 feet), reaching an altitude of 3 meters (10 feet), before the seaplane overturns.〔Peattie 2001, p. 11.〕 Although lacking any official association with the navy, it is the first flight in Japan by a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy. * The British Army renames the observation balloon elements of the Royal Engineers: The Balloon Section becomes the Air Battalion, and the Balloon Factory becomes the Army Aircraft Factory.〔(rafmuseum.org.uk "Early Military Ballooning" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1911 in aviation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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