Pilot timeline

By tmh8787@students.rcsd.ms

  • First Plane

    First Plane
    On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft.

  • First Passenger

    First Passenger
    First airplane passenger: Léon Delagrange, with pilot Henri Farman, on March 29, 1908.

  • First airline flight

    First airline flight
    Tony Jannus conducted the United States' first scheduled commercial airline flight on 1 January 1914

  • First Fighter Jet

    First Fighter Jet
    The "turbojet", was invented in the 1930s, independently by Frank Whittle and later Hans von Ohain. The first turbojet aircraft to fly was the Heinkel He 178 V1 first prototype of the German Air Force, the Luftwaffe, on August 27, 1939 in Rostock (Germany).

  • First Modern Plane Engine

    First Modern Plane Engine
    Sir George Cayley and the first modern aircraft. Sir George Cayley was first called the "father of the aeroplane" in 1946.

  • First airliner

    First airliner
    The revolutionary VC.2 Viceroy, first flown in 1948 was the first turboprop design anywhere.

  • First jet

    First jet
    On this day in 1949, the world’s first jet-propelled airliner, the British De Havilland Comet, makes its maiden test-flight in England.

  • First Modern Cockpit

    First Modern Cockpit
    A glass cockpit is an aircraft cockpit that features electronic (digital) flight instrument displays, ... in military aircraft in the late 1960s and early 1970s;

  • Salary

    Salary
    A regional airline pilots in the U.S. typically starts out making an hourly rate of $20 – $50 per hour, or about $20,000-$40,000 per year, depending on the airline, type of aircraft, and the pilot’s experience level.

  • Degree

    Degree
    In 2017 the necessary degree to be a pilot is a aviation degree.

  • College for aviation bachelor

    College for aviation bachelor
    The best college to get this degree in 2017 is Purdue college in WEST LAFAYETTE, IN