Air transport networks development

Air balloon- first air flight

Nov 23, 1783

• A few men created a hot air balloon, which this then became the first successful air flight.

Orville and Wilbur Wright Invent Huge Kite

Aug 9, 1899

They built a bitplane kite to test the 'wind-warping' method, this then encourages Wright to build a flying machine which can hold a human.

December 17. Wright flyer- first succesful pilot boarded plane.

Dec 17, 1903

First powered, The Wright flyer was human boarded flight. This machine was heavier than air and was able to sustain flight. It flew without any problems and landed controllably.

First helicopter was invented- Cornu helicopter

Nov 13, 1907

Cornu helicopter was an experimental helicopter built in France in 1907 and widely credited with the first free flight of a rotary-wing aircraft when it took to the air on 13 November

The first sea plane

Jan 26, 1911

The first sea plane
Having one or two floats in place of the usual undercarriage this plane took off from, and landed on, water.

First all metal plane.

Mar 25, 1915

This was built by a German, Herman Junkers. It travelled at 170 km an hour and was completly made of metal

First flight across atlantic occured

May 15, 1927

Lindbergh had the 1st succesful flight across atlantic which took over 33hours.

Aerodynamic and Hydrodynamic Central Institute 's vertical flight department

Aug 5, 1930

(USSR)
- ZAGI 1A had a fuselage made of welded tubes, a main rotor with four blades and powered by two engines.
-ZAGI 1A was the first twin-engine helicopter

ZAGI 5EA ( USSR ) helicopter

Apr 28, 1933

-Their second model had a new rotor with three blades rigidly fixed to the hub.
- They included pitch change hinges for ensure cyclic control and the auxiliary rotors at the front and rear of the ZAGI 1A were retained.
-Flights results were disappointing and the aircraft was abandoned

1st practical helicopter : Focke Wulf Fw 61 ( Germany )

Apr 23, 1936

-Altitude flight of 11,243 feet and cross-country flight of 143 miles.
-The Fw 61 was the first helicopter design that had really solved the control problems, and could be flown precisely,
-This model could reach a 122 km/h speed.

VS 300 helicopter

Apr 28, 1939

The first useful single-rotor helicopter

Most advanced WW II helicopter- Flettner FL 282 Kolibri

Apr 28, 1941

Nazi Germany is the first to use helicopters in combat. Fa223, Fl265 y Fl282 were used for rescue, artillery spotting and convoys submarine protection.

1st year where planes became the most popular types of travel over ocean liners to cross the Atlantic

Apr 16, 1958

707 boeing took its first commercial flight

Oct 11, 1958

-This inspired commericial airlines to begin and in response after a few years most major nations had commercial airlines

Mil Mi-26 Halo- Biggest operational helicopter and first to operate successfully with an 8 blades main rotor

Dec 14, 1977

-Mi-26 Halo first flew on December 14, 1977
-Biggest operational Helicopter of the World.
-Can carry up to 150 troops
-It was the first to operate successfully with an 8 blades main rotor.

CHAIC Z-11 ( China )

Aug 17, 1980

1989 and the development began in 1992. The first flight of the Z-11 took place in Dec 1994. It was always said that the Z-11 was a reverse-engineered copy of the Eurocopter AS-350B Squirrel .

Air Command International Commander 147A ( USA )

Sep 6, 1980

Terrorist attacks on WTC, Pentagon and White house

Sep 11, 2001

Increased security massively and is a major event in US History.