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The First Flight
http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3728
Samuel Pierpont Langley built a gasoline powered flying device with a wingpan of 15 feet, flying for half a mile. -
First Airplane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothersThe invention of the first controlled powered sustained heavier than air human flight. This was created by the write brothers growing up in America. -
Wings are added.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothersTwo years after their first invention the Wright brorthers created thier first practical fixed-wing aricraft. Although they weren't the first to creat this, they were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible. -
The first ship-board take off
http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/article.php?Article_Summary=1183 This was the day that civilian piolet Eugene Ely took-off in a 50-hp. -
Lawrence Sperry demonstrates "automatic pilot"
http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=121575 Lawrence Sperry demonstrated an automatic gyrostabilizer in New York. A gyroscope linked to sensors keeps the craft level and traveling in a straight line without aid from the human pilot. -
The first airline
http://earlyaviators.com/ejannto2.htm It was found that the first regular scheduled air line was the St. Petersburg-Tampa Air Line, operated with Benoist flying boats in 1914. Fansler organized the company. Pheil was the first passenger, and Jannus was the pilot. -
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Advisory_Committee_for_Aeronautics The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a U.S. federal agency founded on March 3, 1915 to institutionalize aeronautical research. -
Junkers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_J.I Hugo Junkers, a German professor of mechanics introduces the Junkers J4, an all-metal airplane built largely of a relatively lightweight aluminum alloy called duralumin. -
Mail service by air
http://www.airmailpioneers.org/history/Sagahistory.htm The development of the airplane in the World War also served to further strengthen beliefs of postal officials that it certainly could be developed into a means of fast commercial and mail transportation as well. A final step looking toward this end was taken when Congress financed the year ending June 30, 1918, to be used in the establishment of an experimental air mail. -
Passenger service across English Channel
Britain and France introduce passenger service across the English Channel, flying initially between London and Paris. 1919 was the first nonstop transatlantic flight, from Newfoundland to Ireland. -
Us Navy crossing atlantic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NC-4 The NC-4 became the first airplane to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, starting in the United States and making the crossing as far as Lisbon, Portugal, in 19 days. -
The math behind it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Prandtl
Ludwig was one of the masterminds behind the development of the airplane and the rigorous systematic mathematical analyses which he used for underlaying the science of aerodynamics, He developed the fundemental princiapals of subsonic aerodynamics. -
First nonstop colo flight across atlantic
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/paris.asp Charles Lindbergh takes off in his plane the Spirit of St. Louis out of Long Island. The crowd of 500 thought they had witnessed a miracle. Thirty-three and one half-hours and 3,500 miles later he landed in Paris, the first to fly the Atlantic alone. -
First electromechanical flight simulator
http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=121583 These simulators became famous during World War II, when
they were used as a key pilot training aid by almost every combatant nation. Edwin Link managed the very successful. -
Douglas introduces the 12-passenger twinengine DC-1
http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=121584 In that summer Douglas introduces the 12-passenger twin-engines. It was designed by aeronautical engineer Arthur Raymond for a contract with TWA. A key requirement is that the plane can take off, fully loaded, if one engine goes out -
First small jet aircraft to enter mass production
These Jets are powered by two GE CJ610 turbojet engines, it is 43 feet long, with a wingspan of 35.5 feet, and can carry seven passengers in a fully pressurized cabin. It becomes the first small jet aircraft to enter mass production, with more than 100 sold by the end of 1965. -
Voyager circumnavigates the globe
Using a carbon-composite material, aircraft designer Burt Rutan crafts Voyager for flying around the world nonstop on a single load of fuel. Voyager has two engines, and weighs less than 2,000 pounds. It is piloted by Jeana Yeager and Burt’s brother Dick Rutan, who circumnavigate the globe (26,000 miles) nonstop in 9 days. -
B-2 Bomber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B-2_Spirit The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is an American heavy bomber with stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses and deploy both conventional and nuclear weapons. -
First aircraft through computer-aided design
http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=121604 Boeing shows the world the twin-engine, the biggest two-engine jet ever to fly and the first aircraft produced through computer-aided design andengineering. Only a nose mockup was actually built before the vehicle was assembled—and the assembly was only 0.03 mm out of alignment when a wing was attached. -
Tradjety in airplanes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks Aside from all the benifits that the airplanes give our world there are many downfalls as well. One example is the day that changed America forever, 9/11. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners.The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone.
