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first hot air balloon
The brothers Joseph-Ralf and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier developed a hot air balloon in Annonay, Ardeche, France -
first airplane
Two American brothers, inventors, got credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903 four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. -
first helicopter
Took flight at Stratford, Connecticut. Designed by Igor Sikorsky and built by the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corporation -
first private jet
The Lockheed JetStar is the earliest Business Jet -
first spaceship
the first spaceship landed on Venus. Directed by Kurt Maetzig and starring Günther Simon