Flight

By samantha_402

  • First Heavier Than Air

    First Heavier Than Air
    December 1903- The Wright brothers successfully fly the very first heavier than air powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer 1, for 120 yards in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, U.S

  • First Flight Of Ford Trimotor

    First Flight Of Ford Trimotor
    June 1926- The ford trimotor plane had space for 12 passengers and was the first plane to make air travel potentially profitable

  • First Female Flight Attendant

    First Female Flight Attendant
    May 1930- The first female flight attendant was a 25-year-old registered nurse named Ellen Church

  • First Turbojet Flight

    First Turbojet Flight
    August 1939- Just before their invasion of Poland, the Germans flew a Heinkel He-178 plane powered by a Heinkel S3B turbojet

  • First Piloted Supersonic Flight

    First Piloted Supersonic Flight
    October 1947- Capt. Charles E. Yeager, U.S. Air Force, flew the X-1 rocket-powered research plane built by Bell Aircraft Corp., faster than the speed of sound at Muroc Air Force Base, Calif

  • First Jetliner Service

    First Jetliner Service
    May 1952- The De Havilland Comet flight was inaugurated by BOAC between London and Johannesburg, South Africa. Flight, including stops, took 23 hr., 38 min

  • First Supersonic Passenger Plane Test Flight

    First Supersonic Passenger Plane Test Flight
    December 1968- Two months before concord the Soviet Union test flew the Tupolev Tu-144

  • Boeing 747 Enters Public Service

    Boeing 747 Enters Public Service
    January 1970-1976- The 747 entered service on January 22, 1970, on on Pan Am flights to New York

  • Concorde Starts Flights To New York

    Concorde Starts Flights To New York
    January 1976- Air France and British Airways inaugurated service of Concorde

  • First Manned Private Space Flight

    First Manned Private Space Flight
    June 2004- Burt Rutan's Space Ship One was the world’s first privately developed and operated space ship to reach earth orbit