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Alphonse Pénaud
A 19th-century French pioneer of aviation design and engineering. He was the originator of the use of twisted rubber to power model aircraft, and his 1871 model airplane, which he called the Planophore, was the first aerodynamically stable flying model. He went on to design a full sized aircraft with many advanced features, but was unable to get any support for the project. -
The Wright Brother Begin
Brothers build and Wilbur flies a biplane kite in order to test the "wing-warping" method of controlling a flying machine. -
wright brothers
Brothers write the U.S. Weather Bureau for information on an appropriate place to conduct flying experiments. -
wright brothers experiment
Wrights begin their experiments, flying their glider as a kite and as a man-carrying glider. About a dozen free flights are made although total time in the air is only about two minutes all together. -
wright brothers experiment contuned
Wrights tested between 100 and 200 wing designs in their wind tunnel. -
wright brother first flight
Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. -
first death
First Airplane Passenger Death, During flight trials to win a contract from the U.S. Army Signal Corps, pilot Orville Wright and passenger Lt. Thomas Selfridge crash in a Wright Flyer -
WW1
first war to use the aairplane, first used against the Allies by the Germans. -
Amelia Earhart
she was the first woman to fly as a passenger across the Atlantic Ocean. Then, in 1932, she became the first woman to pilot a plane across that ocean. -
ww2
Fighter planes were armed with high powered machine guns and cannons. -
break the sound barrier
U.S. Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.