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Significant Developments in 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.