The Evolution of Airplanes

By vkumar
  • 400 BCE

    First Ornithopter

    First Ornithopter
    In 400 B.C.E, the first ornithopter, a bird-like flying contraption, was built by Archytas of Tarentum.

  • First Internal-Combustion Airplane

    First Internal-Combustion Airplane
    In 1860, Etienne Lenoir created the first Internal-Combustion plane.

  • The Wright Brothers make first powered flight

    The Wright Brothers make first powered flight
    The Wright Brothers make 4 short flights at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903. This was the first powered flight in recorded history.

  • First Monoplane

    First Monoplane
    the first monoplane was created by the Romanian inventor Trajan Vuis on March 18, 1906

  • First Fighter & Reconnassiance Planes

    First Fighter & Reconnassiance Planes
    In 1911, planes were first used as war machines. they could have stealth spying operations and could also go out guns blazing and destroy enemy operations.

  • First Commercial Airline Flight

    First Commercial Airline Flight
    On January 1, 1914, the first commercial airline flight, with passengers took off.

  • Aerial Agriculture was First Used

    Aerial Agriculture was First Used
    Aerial Agriculture was first proposed in 1924 Georgia and was later adopted in a widespread area by the 1930s.

  • First Trans-Atlantic Flight

    First Trans-Atlantic Flight
    In 1927, the first Trans-Atlantic flight took off. It made it all the way across the Atlantic and back.

  • Jet Propelled Planes First Flown

    Jet Propelled Planes First Flown
    Jet Propelled Planes were first made on August 27, 1939