Aviation´s History

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  • 1000 BCE

    1000B.C

    1000B.C
    In China in 1000 b.c the kite was invented, taking as a model the planning of a hawk.
  • 850 BCE

    852 A.C

    852 A.C
    the British king Bladud Albides tried to fly, building wings with feathers and jumping from the Apollo Temple, now London.
  • 400 BCE

    400B.C

    400B.C
    Archytas of Tarentum had the idea to make a steam-propelled pigeon, it was working by a hidden air current acting inside it.
  • 1250

    1250

    1250
    Roger Bacon, an english cleric wrote the conclusion that the air could support an object in the same way the water resist a boat.
  • 1420

    1420

    1420
    Giovanni Fontana designed a bird able to fly.
    Driven by a rocket among its artificial feathers (plane to reaction in a primitive way).
  • 1485

    1485

    1485
    Leonardo da Vinci designs flying machines and parachute.

  • 1670

    1670
    Francesco de Lana Terzi was made the first known design of an apparatus whose purpose was to fly, being lighter than air, in the form of a ship propelled by a sail

  • 1766

    1766
    Henry Cavendish discovered that hydrogen had a property that made it useful in experiments in which heavier-than-air objects were lifted from the ground.

  • 1783

    1783
    Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and his brother raised a balloon over the city of Annonay in 1783, giving the first step to the origin of airships.

  • 1797

    1797
    André Jacques Garnerin makes the first human parachute descent, from a balloon

  • 1843

    1843
    George Cayley's biplane design is published.

  • 1852

    1852
    Henri Giffard's steam-powered airship makes first flight.

  • 1891

    1891
    Otto Lilienthal begins successful gliding experiments.

  • 1903

    1903
    Orville and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine.

  • 1909

    1909
    Louis Bleriot, French aviator, makes first airplane crossing of English Channel.

  • 1930

    1930
    Frank Whittle, British inventor, invents the jet engine.

  • 1932

    1932
    Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly a solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight

  • 1939

    1939
    Germany's Heinkel 178 is the first fully jet-propelled aircraft to fly.

  • 1947

    1947
    Charles E. Yeager pilots Bell X-1—the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in level flight.

  • 1957

    1957
    Soviet Union launches first man-made earth satellite, Sputnik 1

  • 1957

    1957
    The dog Laika became the first animal to travel to space aboard Sputnik 2.

  • 1958

    1958
    NASA launched Vanguard 1 into orbit, the first solar-powered satellite

  • 1961

    1961
    Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, is the first man in space.

  • 1962

    1962
    John H. Glenn, Jr., is the first American to orbit the earth.

  • 1969

    1969
    U.S. astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., are the first to walk on the moon.

  • 1971

    1971
    First space station, Soviet Salyut 1, is launched into earth's orbit.

  • 1975

    1975
    The alliance of the ships Soyuz and Apollo .

  • 1998

    1998
    First two modules of the International Space Station are launched and joined together in orbit.

  • 2000

    2000
    First crew arrives to take up residence in the International Space Station.

  • 2011

    2011
    In an unmanned test, the Martin jetpack reaches an altitude of 5,000 feet.

  • 2021

    On 1 November 2021 Gary Freedman flew New Zealand's only electric plane.