Advancement of powered flights

By corndog coloney

  • Wright Brothers

    The Wright were two American aviators, engineers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane.

  • First Public Flight

    Wilbur Wright makes 1st public flight, August 8, 1908. On August 8, 1908, the Wright brothers showed off their flying machine in its first public flight, five years after their first successful flight in 1903.

  • WW1 Planes

    Late 1914, Roland Garros attached a machine gun to his plane creating the first Ace to be used in war.

  • Metal Aircraft

    German Aviation Technologist Hugo Junkers showed the future through his concept idea of an all metal plane capable of withstanding multiple shots in war.

  • First helicopter

    2 aerial-nautical engineers created the first single rotor aircraft otherwise known as the helicopter. Capable of going vertical without going horizontal

  • Sound Barrier

    Chuck Yeager in the rocket powered BELL X-1 went through the sound barrier.

  • AeroFlot

    First Airline to introduce regular flights in there luxury airliner, Boeing 707.

  • Speed Record

    The X-15 a speed jet set the fastest speed ever recorded for a plane at 7,972KM/H, well pass the speed of sound.

  • First Moon Landing

    Apollo 11 the first aircraft that landed on the moon successfully flew two astronauts to the moon

  • A380

    The most technological, comfort and efficient plane to date. Cost 450 million to produce the A380 is a gigantic plane capable of carrying 853 passengers at any one time.