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Otto Lilinenthal, between 1891 and 1896 created more than 18 gliders and flew more than two thousand times. -
Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright shared a knowledge of bicycles, a passion for flying, and a keen eye for aerodynamic controls. -
It was the first monoplane and the first aircraft to cross the Mancha Canal. -
At a time when airplanes were made of cloth and wood, the German company Junkers produced a prototype made entirely of metal, proving to the aviation world that lighter metals could be used in aircraft. -
It was a German World War I fighter and the world's first triplane. The reduced number of Dr.I achieved an impressive number of combat victories. -
Charles Lindbergh, an occasional pilot for the United States Postal Service, won the Orteig Award and pocketed $25,000 for the first non-stop flight to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
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Amelia Earhart showed that men were not the only ones capable of flying airplanes. His historic feat was his ocean crossing on May 21, 1932. -
The Boeing 247 reached the speed of 322 km/h, becoming the fastest passenger plane of its time. -
Charles "Chuck" get into the cockpit of the experimental Bell X-1 aircraft. He reached the speed of Mach 1.06 and became the first man to fly at the speed of sound. -
Built by the Hughes Aircraft Company to be the world's heaviest cargo plane, the H-4 Hercules. It made a single flight. -
The launch of the Boeing 747 in 1970 changed the world of aviation. It was twice the size of its predecessor, the 707. -
The Concorde offered luxurious and speedy travel across the Atlantic at a fairly high price. The round-trip ticket for which you had to pay around 12,000 dollars -
The vehicle devised by Burt Rutan combined aviation and aerospace engineering in SpaceShipOne, a spaceship that flew only three times.