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Pilots and engineers learned from experience, leading to the development of many specialized types, including fighters, bombers, and trench strafers.
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from the Wright brothers flight in 1903 to the Airbus A380 the top ten most important advancements in the development of powered flight.
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Orville and Wilbur Wright sustained the first powered flight air machine, inventing aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.
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The world's first liquid-fueled rocket, Goddard successfully launched his model on March 16
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British inventor Frank Whittle invents Jet engine
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The Boeing Model 247 was an early United States airliner, considered the first such aircraft to fully incorporate technological advances that had a cruising speed of 304 Km/h
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Richard Whitcomb, an engineer at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, discovers and produces a rule book that is used in every plane used today to ensure efficient flight.
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The Learjet 23 becomes the first small jet aircraft to enter mass production, with more than 100 sold by the end of 1965.
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Richard Whitcomb's research in the 1970s at NASA first used winglet with its modern meaning referring to near-vertical extension of the wing tips.
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Boeing uses computer aided design to revolutionalise how aircrafts are built producing their twin engine 777
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First ever double decked, wide body, 4 engine passenger aircraft revolutionising modern flight.
