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First Plane
Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. -
Bleriot IX
Louis Bleriot invented the the first monoplane called Bleriot IX. Bleriot completed a 36.6km flight from Calais, France to Dover,UK, in 37 minutes. -
Gyrostabilizer
the year Lawrence Sperry demonstrates the automatic gyrostabilizer. This kept planes level and flying in a straight line. 2 years later he improved on the gyrostabilizer by adding steering mechanism to create automatic pilot. A gyroscopic device for maintaining the equilibrium of something such as a ship, aircraft, or platform -
The First Fighter Plane
French pilot Roland Garros flew the first ever fighter plane. The plane was armed with a machine gun that shot through its propeller. While piloting the fighter plane took down 5 planes. -
Junker j4
Hugo Junkers built the first all metal plane. The metal was a lightweight aluminum alloy called duralumin.The Junkers J.I was a German "J-class" armored sesquiplane of World War I, developed for low-level ground attack, observation and Army cooperation. -
Light Weight Air-cooled Radial Engines
the Lightweight air cooled radial engines were invented and with them planes can be bigger and faster. There is an odd number of cylinders so that a consistent every-other-piston firing order can be maintained, providing smooth operation. For example, on a five-cylinder engine the firing order is 1, 3, 5, 2, 4 and back to cylinder. -
Jet Engine
an engine using jet propulsion for forward thrust, mainly used for aircraft. Whittle, who registered a patent for the turbojet engine in (1930), received that recognition but did not perform a flight test until (1941) -
Boeing 242
Boeing created the boeing 242, the first model airliner. It could carry 10 passengers in comfort. The Boeing 242 was twin engined and was completely metal. -
Heinkel HE178
First jet engined plane (1939) The Heinkel He 178 was the world's first aircraft to fly under turbojet power, and the first practical jet aircraft. It reached a top speed of 435 miles per hour. -
Bell X-1
The Bell X-1, was a rocket engine powered aircraft, designated originally as XS-1, and was a joint National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics-U.S. Army Air Forces-U.S. Air Force supersonic research project built by the Bell Aircraft. -
De Havilland DH 106 Comet
The de Havilland DH 106 Comet was the world's first production commercial jetliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland at its Hatfield Aerodrome, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom headquarters, the Comet 1 prototype first flew on 27 July 1949. Reached a top speed of 500 miles per hour. -
X-15
The X-15 was created in 1960. It reached the speed of mach 6, it was six times faster than the Bell X-1 which broke the speed barrier 13 years ago. (1960)The North American X-15 was a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft. Reached a top speed of 4520 miles per hour. -
Learjet
first small plane to be mass produced.American manufacturer of business jets for civilian and military use. Founded in the late 1950s by William Powell Lear as Swiss American Aviation Corporation. (1963) -
Concorde and Boeing 747
The invention of the Concorde commenced in 1969. It was the first supersonic airliner with speeds that reached double the speed of sound!///The Boeing 747 conducts its first flight. It is a wide bodied commercial airline. It was the most successful airline ever made. -
Voyager
The voyager was the first plane to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in only 9 days, using one tank of fuel. The voyager used a carbon-composite material which makes it lighter. -
B-2 Spirit
The B-2 Spirit was the most expensive plane ever made, it cost more than one Billion dollars to build. The B-2 Spirit was a long range bomber so it uses less fuel. -
Airbus a350
The Airbus a350 is a double decker plane. It is the largest plane built and had enough seats for 555 people. (2006) The Airbus A350 XWB is a family of long-range, twin-engine wide-body jet airliners developed by European aircraft manufacturer Airbus. -
References
-All the pictures are from google images
- if the plane is from boeing, the information I received was from my uncle, who works in the industry in seattle for them
