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The Wright brothers flight
The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane -
First Take off from a ship
Eugene Ely pilots a Curtiss biplane on the first flight to take off from a ship. Sparks the start of aircraft carriers and new war stategies -
The Junkers J4, an all-metal airplane
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. -
First Jet Engine
British inventor Frank Whittle invents the jet engine. -
The Hindenburg Zeppelin
245 metres (804 feet) long, was powered by four 1,100-horsepower diesel engines, giving it a maximum speed of 135 km (84 miles) per hour. this airship carried a total of 1,002 passengers on 10 scheduled round trips between Germany and the United States. Unfortunately in 1937 the hydrogen-inflated craft burst into flames and was completely destroyed, with a loss of 36 lives. -
Breaking the speed of sound
U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager becomes the fastest man alive when he pilots the Bell X-1 faster than sound for the first time on October 14 over the town of Victorville, California. -
Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird"
Record average speed of 2200 mp/h or 3540 km/h
Could fly from Las Angeles to Washington in 68 minutes -
First Boeing 747
One of the first Boeing 747 aircraft used by BOAC airlines for the London to New York service. -
America's First Stealth Fighter: F-117 Nighthawk
The aircraft was the worlds first operational stealth platform -
First AirBus A380
Can fit up to 853 people on board the plane