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invention
Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. -
The first passenger flight
the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line became the world's first scheduled passenger airline service -
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the first non-stop transatlantic flight
During 14–15 June 1919, the British aviators Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight -
the first jet engine was invented
The "turbojet", was invented in the 1930s, independently by Frank Whittle and later Hans von Ohain. The first turbojet aircraft to fly was the Heinkel He 178 V1 first prototype of the German Air Force, the Luftwaffe, on August 27, 1939 in Rostock (Germany). -
sound barrier broken
Chuck Yeager is an American test pilot who was the first person to break the sound barrier — the point where a speeding object (such as an airplane) passes the speed of sound.
Yeager made his history-setting flight on Oct. 14, 1947 in an airplane he dubbed Glamorous Glennis, after his first wife. The Bell X-1 rocket plane (which today hangs in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum) passed Mach 1 following a drop from a B-29 airplane. -
double the speed of sound
The invention of the Concorde commenced in 1969. It was the first supersonic airliner with speeds that reached double the speed of sound! -
B-2 Spirt
The B-2 Spirit was the most expensive plane ever made, it cost more than one Billion dollars to build. The B-2 Spirit was a long range bomber so it uses less fuel. -
Airbus
The Airbus 350 is a double decker plane. It is the largest plane built and had enough seats for 555 people.
