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*1794 - French Aerostatic Corps use a tethered balloon at the Battle of Fleurus as a vantage point. *1849 - The Austrian ship ''Vulcano'' launches a manned hot air balloon to bomb Venice; this is the first aerial attack in history. *1861 - The Union Army Balloon Corps is established during the American Civil War. *1878 - The British Army Balloon Equipment Store is established at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich by the Royal Engineers. *1885 - Balloons are deployed by the British Army to Bechuanaland and Suakin. *1888 - The British Army School of Ballooning is established. *1907 - The first military air organization, the Aeronautical Division of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, is formed 1 August *1907 - British Colonel John Capper flies the military airship ''Nulli Secundus'' from Farnborough to Crystal Palace in London.〔Colonel Templer and the birth of aviation at Farnborough, RAeS, May 2007〕 *1909 - Heavier-than-air military aviation is born with the US Army's purchase of Signal Corps Aeroplane No. 1. *1910 - The first experimental take-off of a heavier-than-air craft from the deck of a US Navy vessel, the cruiser *1910 - The ''Aviation Militaire'' of the French Army is formed 22 October. *1911 - The Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers is formed, the first British heavier-than-air unit. *1911 - Heavier-than-air aircraft are used in war for the first time during the Italo-Turkish War. *1912 - The Royal Flying Corps is formed. A few months later the Dominion of Australia also formed the Australian Flying Corps. *1914 - The Royal Naval Air Service is formed by splitting airship squadrons away from the Royal Flying Corps. *1914 - In August, Russian Staff-Captain Pyotr Nesterov becomes the first pilot to ram his plane into an enemy spotter aircraft. *1914 - In October, a plane is shot down by another aircraft with a handgun over Rheims, France. *1914 - The first conventional air-to-air kill occurs on October 5 when a gunner on a French Voisin machine-guns a German Aviatik reconnaissance aircraft in World War I. *1918 - The Royal Air Force, the world's first independent air force is formed. *1918 - HMS Argus (I49) became "the world's first carrier capable of launching and landing naval aircraft".〔Geoffrey Till, "Adopting the Aircraft Carrier: The British, Japanese, and American Case Studies" in 〕 *1940 - The Battle of Britain, the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, was fought. *1958 - The first ever air-to-air kill with a missile, when a Chinese Nationalist North American F-86 Sabre kills a Chinese PLAAF Mikoyan-Guryevich MiG-15 during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis *1980 - The only confirmed air-to-air helicopter battles occur during the Iran–Iraq War. ==See also== *List of firsts in aviation 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「Timeline of military aviation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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