Giulio Gavotti (Died October 6, 1939 b. 1882) Italian pilot. In 1911, Giulio Gavotti conducted the first air raid from an airplane. He used his Etrich Taube monoplane to drop 4 4½-pound (2 kg) grenades on the Ottoman military in Libya from an altitude of about 600 feet (183 meters). There were no casualties from the attack. The Ottoman Empire issued a protest against these types of raids as the dropping of bombs from balloons had been outlawed by the Hague Convention of 1899, but Italy argued that this ban did not extend to heavier-than-air craft. The following year, Gavotti performed the first night mission of a heavier-than-air aircraft.
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