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The first plane
Wilbur and Orville Wright spent four years of research and development to create the first successful powered airplane, the 1903 Wright Flyer. It first flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, with Orville at the controls. -
First Flight Across The Alantic
Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight. -
The jet engine is invented.
Hans von Ohain of Germany was the designer of the first operational jet engine, though credit for the invention of the jet engine went to Great Britain's Frank Whittle. -
The first jet propelled plane
the world's first jet plane, the experimental Heinkel He 178. -
The plane goes faster than the speed of sound
the Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis, piloted by U.S. Air Force Captain Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager, became the first airplane to fly faster than the speed of sound -
Boeing starts their first commercial flight
12-passenger Boeing 80 biplane made its first flight. With three engines, it was Boeing's first plane built with the sole intention of being a passenger transport -
The first non-stop flight around the world
The aircraft landed successfully two minutes ahead of the predicted time at 10.22am on March 2nd 1949, after 94 hours and 1 minute. The recorded distance of the flight was 37,742 kilometres (23,452 miles) and the Lucky Lady II had achieved the very first non-stop round the world flight. -
Solar powered flight around the world
The aircraft next stopped in Cairo, Egypt, on 13 July, and landed in Abu Dhabi on 26 July, completing the around-the-world trip in a total of 17 stages and 16-1/2 months; it was the first circumnavigation of the Earth by a piloted fixed-wing aircraft using only solar power. -
Electric aircraft begin pre-production
The first prototypes of Beta's electric aircraft will be manufactured on the same tooling and in the same building where certified production aircraft are scheduled to begin rolling off the line in 2025. -
New Zealand's first electric commercial flight
he made history by becoming the first person to fly across New Zealand's Cook Strait in an electric plane, Gary Freedman thought it only fitting that the first thing he saw when approaching the Wellington coastline was the rotating blade of a wind turbine producing renewable energy.