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The first flight of a plane was in 1903 as the wright brothers set off their plane in Kitty Hawk NC.
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The first plane used in war was in October 23rd, 1911. The plane was used as a reconnaissance aircraft during the Italian Turkish war.
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The first patent for a jet engine was made by a Frenchman Maxime Guillaume in 1921 and was a axial flow engine
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The first trans Atlantic flight was on June 28th, 1939 and each ticket was $375.
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The first jet engine to be used in WW2 was the ME262 and was created by Nazi Germany in April 1944 at the end of the war.
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The first supersonic aircraft was the Bell X-1 and was flown in January 17th, 1946 and opened a whole new idea of what jets could be capable of.
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The first supersonic aircraft was the Bell X-1 and was a groundbreaking plane for modern jets. It was even made only a couple years after the first jet flight.
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The black box is a heavily protected recording device that records the entire flight of a plane and if the plane crashes it shows the recording of what happened to the plane
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The first stealth aircraft was the F-117A and changed was able to be undetected by radar and was a massive breakthrough for military aircraft.
