Airplanes

By Jbb5
  • Jan 1, 1490

    DaVinci: plan for a man-carrying ornithopter with flapping wings.

    DaVinci: plan for a man-carrying ornithopter with flapping wings.
    Leonardo daVinci invents a ornithopter with movable wings.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1490 to

    Airplanes

  • Montgolfier hot-air balloon.

    Montgolfier hot-air balloon.

  • Sir George Cayley: Plan for a fixed-wing aircraft.

    Sir George Cayley: Plan for a fixed-wing aircraft.

  • William Henson: The Aerial Steam, the first aircraft design to show propellers.

    William Henson: The Aerial Steam, the first aircraft design to show propellers.

  • 1880-1898, inventors debate between training pilots or building inherently stable planes.

    1880-1898, inventors debate between training pilots or building inherently stable planes.

  • Wilbur Wright writes the Smithsonian asking for published materials on aeronautics. He is answered by Richard Rathbun, who sends four pamphlets and a list of other publications.

    Wilbur Wright writes the Smithsonian asking for published materials on aeronautics. He is answered by Richard Rathbun, who sends four pamphlets and a list of other publications.

  • he brothers begin planning a man-carrying version using data tables developed by Otto Lilienthal to achieve the necessary lift.

  • Samuel Langley and Charles Manly make additional flights with Aerodromes Nos. 5 and 6.

  • Orville Wright makes the first powered flight in a fully controllable aircraft capable of sustaining itself in the air.

  • Concept of a fixed "boundary layer" described in paper by Ludwig Prandtl

    Concept of a fixed "boundary layer" described in paper by Ludwig Prandtl

  • The Dunne flying wing, built and tested by the British was the first top secret aircraft.

    The Dunne flying wing, built and tested by the British was the first top secret aircraft.

  • First take off from a ship

    First take off from a ship

  • Automatic gyrostabilizer leads to first automatic pilot

    Automatic gyrostabilizer leads to first automatic pilot

  • 14-18 Dramatic improvements in structures and control and propulsion systems

    14-18 Dramatic improvements in structures and control and propulsion systems

  • National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

  • The Junkers J4, an all-metal airplane, introduced

  • Airmail service inaugurated

    Airmail service inaugurated

  • U.S. Navy aviators make the first airplane crossing of the North Atlantic

  • Passenger service across the English Channel introduced

  • Introduction of lightweight, air-cooled radial engines

    Introduction of lightweight, air-cooled radial engines

  • First nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic

  • Jet engines designed

  • Sound barrior broken

  • Nasa established, aeronautics contributes to the development of satelite launching technology.

    Nasa established, aeronautics contributes to the development of satelite launching technology.

  • The first satelite T.V is streamed:

  • Boeing 747

    Boeing 747

  • Joint research program to develop second-generation supersonic airliner

  • NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System will get an upgrade as the agency launches the first of a new generation of communications satellites to connect spacecraft to the ground stations that support them.

    NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System will get an upgrade as the agency launches the first of a new generation of communications satellites to connect spacecraft to the ground stations that support them.
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    Aeronautics

  • Possibly Mars landing?

    Possibly Mars landing?

  • Man lands in asteroid belt?

  • Jupiter?

  • Bounds of out solar system?

  • Faster than light planes?

    Faster than light planes?