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1400
Leonardo Da Vinci
sketched out his flying machines in multiple notebooks. -
Period: 1400 to
Pre-Wright Brothers era
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Sir Isaac Newton
Laws of motion, gravity, and physics -
Daniel Bernoulli
Created the Bernoulli's Principle. Speed up, lower pressure. Slow down, higher pressure. -
Montgolfier Brothers
Invented the hot air balloon -
Hiram Maxim
helped build the airplane motor -
George Cayley "The Father of Aviation"
Created and successfully tested the "boy flier" in which a young boy flew Cayley's glider -
Frank Wenham
Built the wind tunnel -
Alphonse Penaud
Created a working rubber band airplane -
Otto Lilenthal
made more than 2000 flights with his gliders -
Octave Chanute
Researched flight and wrote a book, greatly inspiring the Wright Brothers. He also helped make a motor for the Wrights. -
Samuel Langley
First sustained flight -
The Wright Brothers
The first controlled, sustained, flight. -
Period: to
Wright Brothers Era
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Glenn Curtiss
Invented many different military planes. Also one of the first controlled flights. -
Lieutenant Selfridge
First airplane fatality -
Period: to
Glenn Curtiss Era
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First Bombing Raid
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First Mail Planes
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First Cross Country Flight
Flew from New York to California -
World War I
A four year war in which fighting usually took place in Europe -
First Regular Airplane Mail Service
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First Air-to-Air Refueling
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World War II
A war in which Hitler invaded France and tried to take over the world. -
Chuck Yeager
Broke the sound barrier -
Korean War
A war between North and South Korea -
Vietnam War
North Vietnam attacked the US backed South Vietnam -
Gulf War
Kuwait is invaded by Saddam Hussein's forces and are forced back by UN -
The Future of Flight
Passenger jets going Mach 2.2, solar powered flight, flying cars, ect. What's next?