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On this day he attemted to launch his gasoline powered, "Great Aerodrome" off a house boat in the Potomac River.
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The Wright Brothers first flight. They traveled about 800 feet.
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On this day he won the Scientific American trophy for flying one kilometer. He built the first sea plane in the U.S. and in World War I his best known plane the JN-4 was widely used. Also, in 1919 another one of his planes the NC-A was the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
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Became the first woman to fly solo and went on to be a stunt piolet and test flier.
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On this day she became the first U.S woman to earn her piolets license and the second one in the world.
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Kathrine became the first at the time to become a female piolet at age 16. Two years later Marjorie earned hers. Together they opened a piolet school where the taught their brother to fly.
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She went to France to earn her piolets license. She became the first African woman to recieve her piolets license. The next year she took up barnstorming to open a piolets school for African Americans.
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On this day he made his first solo flight from New York to Paris on his plane the Spirit of St. Louis. He recieved the Congressional Medal of honor. On March 1st 1932 his 1st child Charles A. Lindberg Jr. was kidnapped.
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She became the passanger to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Four years later she became the first woman to fly a plane alone acrossed the Atlantic. She attempted to fly around the world but her plane crashed.
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Became Vice President of Aircraft Corperation nine years later in 1938 he became President of Air Craft Corperation. He shot down 26 German planes in World War II. In 1942 his plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean and he survived 3 weeks at sea.
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On this day he accomined Amelia Earhart on her around the world flight. But, they dissapeared somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Became the first person to fly solo west across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Established the first government approved pilots school for African Americans.
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Set more records tha anyone at that time. She had masterd every kind of air craft. Also, she trained women to work in World War II.
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On this day he became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.
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He became the first African American General in Air Force History.
