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1000 BCE
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
the British king Bladud Albides tried to fly, building wings with feathers and jumping from the Apollo Temple, now London. -
400 BCE
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
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
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
Leonardo da Vinci designs flying machines and parachute. -
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
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
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
André Jacques Garnerin makes the first human parachute descent, from a balloon -
1843
George Cayley's biplane design is published. -
1852
Henri Giffard's steam-powered airship makes first flight. -
1891
Otto Lilienthal begins successful gliding experiments. -
1903
Orville and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine. -
1909
Louis Bleriot, French aviator, makes first airplane crossing of English Channel. -
1930
Frank Whittle, British inventor, invents the jet engine. -
1932
Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly a solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight -
1939
Germany's Heinkel 178 is the first fully jet-propelled aircraft to fly. -
1947
Charles E. Yeager pilots Bell X-1—the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in level flight. -
1957
Soviet Union launches first man-made earth satellite, Sputnik 1 -
1957
The dog Laika became the first animal to travel to space aboard Sputnik 2. -
1958
NASA launched Vanguard 1 into orbit, the first solar-powered satellite -
1961
Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, is the first man in space. -
1962
John H. Glenn, Jr., is the first American to orbit the earth. -
1969
U.S. astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., are the first to walk on the moon. -
1971
First space station, Soviet Salyut 1, is launched into earth's orbit. -
1975
The alliance of the ships Soyuz and Apollo . -
1998
First two modules of the International Space Station are launched and joined together in orbit. -
2000
First crew arrives to take up residence in the International Space Station. -
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.