How flight has changed over time

first hot-air balloon

Nov 21, 1783

the first manned flight. A hot-air balloon was launched in paris for all to see on board were two close friends of the Montgolfier brothers, Pilatre de Rozier and Francious Laurent. www.brisbanehotairballooning.com.au/history-of-hot-air-balloons/

first successful airplane

Dec 17, 1903

Wilbur and Orville wWrite made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft it was mainly made of wood and a cloth called muslin
https://airandspace.si.edu/.../wright.../1903/

fighter planes

Apr 5, 1915

the newly invented airplane entered ww1 as an observer of enemy activity www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/fokker.htm

first crop dusting airplane

Aug 16, 1921

with the chemicals on the market kill both insects and weeds farmers looked for the best way to apply them. A farm was being attacked by sphinx moths and a pilot dusted the crops killing the moths. The word was out and farmers were looking for pilots and thus began the crop dusting industryhttp://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/pests_04.html

first jet airplane

Aug 27, 1939

this was invented independently by Frank whittle. the first turbojet to fly was the Heinkle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_aircraft

first airplane to break the sound barrier

Oct 14, 1947

chuck yeager was the pilot and had two broken ribs from horse back riding he told no one and climbed into the cock pit he took off and droped the bombs and excelerated in speed breaking the sound barrier http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter3.html

first spaceship invented

Feb 2, 1961

no one person invented the spaceship but the work of a large team the first ship safely put a man in space. https://howthingsfly.si.edu/...

first unmanned fighter jet

Sep 19, 2013

the QF-16 will provide a fourth generation fighter representation of real world threats
https://www.rt.com/usa/air-force-unmanned-fighter-flight-301/