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1700 BCE
Aviation in the Ancient and Middle Ages
700 a. C. the Greek myth of Icarus and Daedalus.
400 a. C .: Arquitas de Taranto.
300 a. C .: The Chinese invented the Kite.
559: There are documented flights of humans using comets.
852: Precursor of modern parachutes.
1010: Wood glider and feathers.
Late fifteenth century: Leonardo da Vinci. -
The brothers Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier
The wealthy paper makers of Annonay (France) make a public demonstration in their town of an unmanned hot air balloon.
September 19: The Montgolfier brothers raise a sheep, a duck and a chicken in a balloon in a demonstration to King Louis XVI of France. -
First Human Flight
Dr. Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and the nobleman François Laurent d'Arlandes made the first human flight in Paris, managed to fly for 25 minutes traveling 8 kilometers in a hot air balloon invented by the Montgolfier Brothers. -
The first dead
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and Jules Romain become the first dead in an aeronautical accident, when they tried to cross the English Channel in their balloon. -
Flight of the English Channel
The Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard and the American John Jeffries manage to cross the English Channel in a balloon for the first time. -
First military use
Used by the French army for the recognition of Austrian forces in the battle of Fleurus. -
Sir George Cayley
First unmanned flight of a glider, which had a tail to control it, and a place where the pilot could be placed, below the center of gravity of the apparatus, thus giving stability to the aircraft. -
7,900 meters
Charles Green together with the astronomer Spencer Rush manage to ascend in a balloon up to 7,900 meters of altitude. -
First world flight in a device heavier than air
William Henson and John Stringfellow build an unmanned steam airplane model, which manages to fly successfully traveling 40 meters. -
Dirigible
Giffard manages to make a 27 km flight in his airship, becoming the first person to make a motor-propelled flight. -
The Albatross
EThe Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Bris manages to fly with his glider, the Albatross, a distance of 200 meters at a height of 100. -
Balloon passengers
The balloons are used by the French for the transport of people and messages breaking the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. From September to January, 66 flights transported 110 passengers and 3 million letters outside Paris. -
Electric motor
The Frenchman Gaston Tissander makes the first flight powered by electricity, thanks to the adaptation of a Siemens electric motor to an airship. -
Seelburg
Karl Wölfert flies in a gasoline-powered airship in Seelburg. The engine was built by Gottlieb Daimler. -
The Hawk
The Englishman Percy Pilcher builds a glider he calls the Hawk, and begins the development of a starting system using an internal combustion engine. -
Glider with passengers.
Lawrence Hargrave shows in Australia a glider capable of transporting passengers. It is based on an earlier project of his, the box kite. -
Brother Wright
They begin to experience mechanisms to gain control of their aircraft. -
5 passengers
Ferdinand von Zeppelin performs the first flight of a rigid airship, the LZ1, carrying 5 passengers on an 18-minute flight. -
3 passenger plane
Wilbur Wright made the first flight of a plane loaded with two people. -
First Commercial Transportation
First commercial transport by plane, a box with electric lamps from Shoreham to Hove in England. -
Commercial flight
The American pilot Tony Jannus makes the first commercial flight in history, between the cities of St. Petersburg and Tampa, both in Florida (United States), with the mayor of the first, Abraham C. Pheil, as the only passenger. -
Henri Farman
It transports 11 passengers in its F.60 Goliath from Paris to London on February 8, being the first commercial flight between both cities. -
Creation of airlines
October 7, 1919: KLM Airline The KLM airline is founded, currently the oldest still operational under its initial name.
December 5, 1919: Avianca The Avianca airline is founded, the first in the entire American continent. January 1, 1821: Mexican de Aviacion The Mexican Aviation airline in Mexico is founded, being the first mail and passenger transport in Latin America.
February 28, 1926: Lufthansa The Deutsche Lufthansa AG airline is founded. -
Iberia
The Iberia company is established in Spain, thanks to the participation of Spanish financiers and the German Lufthansa Society. -
American Overseas Airlines
The American Overseas Airlines airline was created that operated from 1945 to 1950. A transatlantic division with which they flew to several European countries, which was the first European European service. The creation of AOA was the result of a merger between the international division of American and a company called American Export Airlines. -
Peruvian International Airways
It becomes the first Latin American airline that provided international itinerary air services linking South America, Central America and North America. It was the first Peruvian airline that operated itinerary flights between cities in America, covering the Lima-Panama-Havana-Washington-New York routes, known at the time as "the aerial avenue of the Americas" and the Lima-Antofagasta route -Santiago de Chile -
Family Fare Plan
Introduction of the Family Fare Plan (‘family rate plan’) so that families could travel together at reduced prices. It also launched a regular service in economy class, an economical and comfortable alternative to first class travel. -
Magnetronic Reservisor
Began to apply the Magnetronic Reservisor reservation system to keep track of the seats available on airplanes. Technology developed by American Airlines since 1946. -
AMerican Airline Stewardess College
The world's first facilities exclusively for training flight attendants, American Airlines Stewardess College (‘American Airlines hostess school’) were built in Dallas-Fort Worth. -
Boeing 707
The Boeing 707, the first successful passenger jet aircraft, enters into service at the hands of the Pan Am company on a flight between New York and Paris. -
Concorde
The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a supersonic aircraft used for passenger transport. It was built from all the works of the British British Aircraft Corporation and French Aérospatiale manufacturers. In 1969 he made his first flight, entering service in 1976 and flying for 27 years. -
Concorde Accident
One of the Concorde of Air France suffered an accident on July 25, 2000, when a turbine of the plane began to burn, causing it to crash in Gonesse (France) shortly after taking off, killing 113 people. -
Terrorist attacks
wo American Airlines and two United Airlines planes were used in the September 11 attacks. As a direct consequence of this event, the number of air travelers decreased in most airlines, and many of them faced great financial difficulties in the following years. From this moment, the security measures taken at airports were increased. -
Last Flight Concorde
The last Concorde flight is made due to the high operational costs and the low number of passengers. Since then, no supersonic aircraft have commercial flights.
