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1783 Jacques Etienne & Joseph Montgolifer of France launched fiest hot air baloon.
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1785 Jean Pierre Blanchard french balloonist made the first succesful voyage across the english channel.
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First winged glider made by Sir George Cayley, english aviation pioneer
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Was a German pioneer of human aviation who became known as the Glider King. He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful gliding flights. He followed an experimental approach established earlier by Sir George Cayley. Newspapers and magazines published photographs of Lilienthal gliding, favorably influencing public and scientific opinion about the possibility of flying machines becoming practical.
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John Stringfellow constucted first succesful power drivin model plane.
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Henri Giffard flew first steam engine airship over Paris
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Wilbur Wright was born. American aviation hero. first one to make a flyable plane.
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In 1895, Percy S. Pilcher built monoplane gliders which operated successfully. Sadly, 4 years later on September 3rd he was killed while gliding in windy weather.
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Louis Bleriot flew from one country to another
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The U.S. Naval Aviation Service created and the U.S. Navy's first airplane, a Curtiss Model D, is ordered
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first ladie to get her pilots lisence in the world. she wanted to be the first to fly the world solo.
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Catherian at 16 was the youngest to get a pilots lisence
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H.W. Blakeley completes the first night flight in Canada. His landing area was outlined with blazes and his planes wings had light attached to them. He did this all at the Dominion Livestock Show and Fair at Brandon, Manitoba.
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Under the command of Second Assistant Postmaster General Otto Praeger. Praeger wasn't a pilot, but he wanted to prove that planes could deliver mail faster than trains could. Praeger's men flew a variety of aircraft. They soon came to rely on the deHavilland DH-4.
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Twenty-six Air Mail employees died in plane crashes--more than one fatality per month. The average air mail pilot could expect to fly less than two years before dying on the job.
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Thanks to the work of pilots, mechanics, engineers, and administrators, Air Mail became steadily safer. Pilots were issued parachutes. At first, many complained about having to carry them. But once a few lives were saved, they stopped complaining. New flight instruments and devices such as headlights on the wings made it easier for pilots to control and land their planes. And the quality of maintenance improved
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After a dramatic coast-to-coast flight it proved mail could be flown at night, the U.S. government set up a system of light beacons and lighted airfields across the country. The beacons guided night fliers, and the lighted fields provided safe landing spots
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During this year (the exact date I do not know), Two U.S. Army planes made the first flight around the world. It took them almost 6 months to complete the 26 345-mile flight.
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A U.S. pilot named Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world. He flew 23 452 miles in 3 days, 22 hours and 1 minute.
