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1945 BCE
World War Aviation
Pilots and engineers learned from experience, leading to the development of many specialized types, including fighters, bombers, and trench strafers. -
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10 important developments in the field of powered flight
from the Wright brothers flight in 1903 to the Airbus A380 the top ten most important advancements in the development of powered flight. -
Wright Brothers
Orville and Wilbur Wright sustained the first powered flight air machine, inventing aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible. -
Robert H. Goddard liquid fueled rocket
The world's first liquid-fueled rocket, Goddard successfully launched his model on March 16 -
First ever Jet engine
British inventor Frank Whittle invents Jet engine -
Boeing 247
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 -
Design of Aircraft Rule
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. -
Mass production of passenger planes
The Learjet 23 becomes the first small jet aircraft to enter mass production, with more than 100 sold by the end of 1965. -
Winglet prototype tested
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. -
First aircraft produced through computer-aided design and engineering
Boeing uses computer aided design to revolutionalise how aircrafts are built producing their twin engine 777 -
Airbus A380
First ever double decked, wide body, 4 engine passenger aircraft revolutionising modern flight.
