Airplane Timeline By Chase Gervais 1848 The first powered flight 1852 The first balloon flight 1903 Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the first plane. 1908 The first airplane fatality 1909 The first flight across the English Channel 1910 The first female pilot 1919 First nonstop transatlantic flight 1927 First flight across the Atlantic 1929 First flight over the North Pole 1947 The sound barrier was broken by a U.S. experimental rocket
