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Airplane Timeline

By Chase Gervais

  • The first powered flight

    The first powered flight

  • The first balloon flight

  • Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the first plane.

  • The first airplane fatality

    The first airplane fatality

  • The first flight across the English Channel

  • The first female pilot

  • First nonstop transatlantic flight

    First nonstop transatlantic flight

  • First flight across the Atlantic

  • First flight over the North Pole

    First flight over the North Pole

  • The sound barrier was broken by a U.S. experimental rocket