airplanes

By cvice
  • Jan 1, 1492

    First aircraft

    First aircraft
    Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines - with over 100 drawings that illustrated his theories on flight.

  • Hot Air

    Hot Air
    The Montgolfier brothers invent the first hot air balloons.

  • The first

    The first
    The inventors of the first airplane were Orville and Wilbur Wright. On December 17, 1903,

  • First Helicopter

    First Helicopter
    During the mid 1500's, Italian inventor Leonardo Da Vinci made drawings of an ornithopter flying machine that some experts say inspired the modern day helicopter.

  • First engine

    First engine
    Two engineers, Frank Whittle of the United Kingdom and Hans von Ohain of Germany, developed the jet engine during the late 1930s.

  • First sonic jet

    First sonic jet
    Frank Whittle was the first to register a patent for the turbojet engine in 1930.

  • modern day

    modern day
    Airplane in the modern day time