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Aviation timeline

By Jmm1220
  • 1000 BCE

    First kites

    First kites
    Kites are invented in China.
  • 852 BCE

    A king tries to fly

    A king tries to fly
    The English King Bladud is apparently killed attempting to fly.
  • Period: 1485 to 1500

    da Vinci designs planes

    Leonardo da Vinci designs flying machines.

  • Model glider design

    Model glider design
    Bartolomeu Laurenço de Gusmao designs a model glider.

  • Hot air balloon flight

    Hot air balloon flight
    The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight was on 21 November 1783 in Paris, France in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers.

  • Biplane design

    Biplane design
    George Cayley’s biplane design is published.

  • Biplane gliders

    Biplane gliders
    Otto Lilienthal flies biplane gliders.

  • First powered flight

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