In air travel, “basic aviation” is a broad class which includes all civil aviation except scheduled airline service and paid cargo flights. Hence, they devised the Scientific American Aeronautic Trophy with the intention to encourage the event of a heavier-than-air flying machine. As compared, there have been no fatalities in 2010 for all US airlines, giving industrial aviation a current fatality frequency of exactly zero.

Nearly as soon as they have been invented, airplanes had been used for military purposes. On October 19, 1901 he flew his airship Quantity 6 over Paris from the Parc de Saint Cloud around the Eiffel Tower and again in beneath half-hour to win the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize Santos-Dumont went on to design and construct several aircraft.

Though airships were used in both ...