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wilbur wright was the first man to fly!
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The Bleriot XI was one of the first notable monoplanes to achieve any level of fame.
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For growing military powers like India and Turkey, it behooves these nations to begin developing sustainable indigenou
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structural composites were first used in a aircraft.
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frank whittle draws a design of a jet engine.
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First flight of an aircraft with a Whittle engine took place.
'Nickel-based superalloys', now used in the vast majority of turbine blades in jet engines, were developed.
The autopilot was invented. -
researchers that work at the royal aircraft establishment, farnbrough instructed the world's first fully automatic landing of an aircraft.
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british airline BOAC got the frist jet airliner, the De havilland comet wasintroduced
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with the advent of jet age,and the progress operation streamline, piston engines are almost a thing of the past.
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British engineer Leslie Phillips developed carbon fibres and went on to build the world's first carbon fibre production line for carbon composites.
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Researchers at Rolls-Royce developed a method of growing whole turbine blades from a single crystal of suepralloy, allowing the engine to operate at higher temperatures.
A team at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough developed lithium-based aluminium alloys, which are around 10% lighter than standard aluminium.
A team at Cranfield University helped pioneer toughened epoxy resins to make polymer composites stronger. -
ICI produced one of the first thermoplastic composites, later pioneered by Westland for use in aircraft.
British Aerospace and GEC Avionics, in collaboration with UK university teams, took up development of the 'fly-by-wire' (FBW) control system.
Researchers at GEC Avionics pioneered 'fly-by-light' control systems based on fibre optics rather than electrical wires. -
my dad started to build planes
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A University of Birmingham team developed a lighter-burn-resistant' alloy based on titanium for use in aircraft engines.
A University of Cambridge team, in collaboration with Rolls-Royce, developed a 'powder' alloy, allowing engines to be made more cheaply.
Teams from UK universities developed a resin transfer moulding process which automated how composites are put together -
The welding industures create a process called "Friction Stir Welding which makes welding easier!
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The UK aerospace industry generated £17 billion of domestic turbover and spent 12.3% of turnover on research and development
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QinetiQ achieved the world's first automatic landing of a short take-off vertical-landing aircraft on a ship (the HMS Invincible).
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The Eurocopter X3 (or simply as the "X-Cubed") is an developmental rotary-wing platform intended to validate a helicopters.
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Billed as the "World's Fastest Airplane", the Falcon HTV-2 ("Hypersonic Technology Vehicle") is a long-duration and hypersonic.
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The Sukhoi Su-35 (NATO: "Flanker-E") is a variant of the successful Su-27 "Flanker" family of air superiority aircraft.
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The Boeing F-15SE "Silent Eagle" is a "stealthified" version of the successful two-seat F-15E "Strike Eagle" debuted in 1988.
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Though the Sopwith Camel (the official designation being Sopwith Biplane F.1) was designed as a replacement for the Sopwith.
