Aviation

  • Aug 28, 1000

    kites

    The Chinese invent kites which carried men to scout troops.
  • Mar 4, 1162

    Constantinaple,turkey

    A man in Constatinaple, turkey fashioned sail-like wings from a fabric gathered into pleats and folds. He plummeted from the top of the ower and died.
  • the Wright brothers

    The wright brothers make their first glider flight.
  • avaition competition

    First internationale avaition competition in Rheims, France.
  • First African American

    Bessie Coleman becomes the first African American woman to receive federation aeronitic internationale (FAI) pilots license.
  • SGT Randall L.Bose

    SGT Randall L. bose and PVT author bergo make a delayed parachute jump to 1,500 FT to demonstrate that falling persons remain concious.
  • Tiros 1

    Tiros 1: First weather satelite lauched
  • Tu-144

    The Tu-144, the first soviet super sonic transport, flew.
  • Twin Towers

    Terrorists fly three boeing airlines into New York Twin Towers and the pentagon - a fourth aircraft crashes in Pennsylvania changing history and aviation security in the 21st century.
  • NASA

    NASA's last hubble space telescope mission and the final non-ISS shuttle flight.