Progression Of Powered Flight

By david.queiros
  • Period: 1903 BCE to

    Progression Of Powered Flight

  • First Powered Flight

    Orville and Wilbur Wright create the first recorded powered, sustained and controlled flight in a heavier than air flying machine.

  • First trans-Atlantic flight

    Charles Lindbergh accomplishes the first solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight.

  • Jet engine invented

    British inventor Frank Whittle invents the first jet engine.

  • First jet-propelled aircraft

    Germany’s Heinkel 178 is created and the first fully jet-propelled aircraft to fly.

  • First supersonic transport flight

    First flights of supersonic transport
    - Soviet TU-144 and Anglo-French Concorde.

  • First Boeing 747 commercial flight

    Boeing 747 makes its first commercial flight.

  • First non-stop flight around world

    Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager fly the US ultralight Voyager around the world in a 9-day non-stop flight from California to California.

  • Test flight of Boeing 777

    The first aircraft to be designed entirely on a computer

  • First Airbus a380

    First Airbus a380 took flight

  • World’s first flying car

    An aeroplane that can take off and land at any airport and, with the push of a button, fold up its wings and drive down the road.