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START OF THE AERONAUTICAL STRUCTURES
In 1890, Clément Ader, a French engineer, built an airplane he called Éole, equipped with a steam engine. Ader managed to take off in the Éole, but he was unable to control the aircraft and could only fly about 50 meters in the air, which is officially recognized as the birth of aviation in Europe. Two years later, Ader repeated the feat with the Avion II, flying 200 meters. -
THE BIRDMAN
Otto Lilienthal, the birdman performs a series of glider flights in his attempt to develop a practical ornithopter. Although he will never achieve his goal, he will become the first person to perform controlled and repeated flights in a series of heavier-than-air devices. He reaches over 300 meters in some of his flights. He also becomes the first to have his flights photographed and well documented. -
WRIGHT BROTHERS
They were two aviators, engineers, inventors and aviation pioneers, generally named together, and recognized worldwide as the ones who invented, built and flew the world's first airplane successfully, even though there is some controversy about it.It is claimed that their first flight took place on December 17, 1903, -
WORLD WAR I
Aviation in World War I allowed the development of most of the concepts of air warfare that would be used until the Vietnam War. Almost from their invention, aircraft were put into military service. Thus, World War I was the first war in which aircraft were used in attack, defense and reconnaissance missions. -
FIRST METAL AIRCRAFT
In 1916 the German company Junkers manufactured a prototype of a metal airplane. The Junkers J1, better known as "Donkey Tin" was a milestone in history. From then on, stronger metal alloys began to be integrated into the airframes. -
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AVIATION'S GOLDEN AGE
The interwar period saw the development of all aviation-related technology, with major advances being made in aircraft design, and the time when the first airlines began to operate. It was also a time when aviators began to impress the world with their exploits and skills. Aircraft began to replace wood with metal on a widespread basis. -
DEVELOPMENTS IN AVIATION TECHNOLOGY
During this period, and especially in the 1930s, there were several technical improvements that facilitated the construction of larger aircraft, capable of traveling greater distances and flying faster and at higher altitudes, which made it possible to carry more cargo and passengers. Advances in the science of aerodynamics allowed engineers to develop aircraft whose design interfered as little as possible with the aircraft's flight. -
AMELIA MARY EARHART
She was an American aviator, famous for her flying records and for attempting the first aerial trip around the world over the equator. -
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TURBO HELICALS
Aircraft manufacturers went on to create models specially designed for passenger transport and, during the first years after the war, airlines used military aircraft modified for civilian use, or versions derived from them, including the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, which was derived from the Boeing C-97 , and which became the first double-decker aircraft in the history of aviation. -
FIRST COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT
The first commercial jet aircraft in the history of aviation was the De Havilland Comet. In 1952 it was capable of flying at 850 km/h, with a pressurized cabin. But it would be the American company Boeing that would make the great qualitative leap towards what we now understand as commercial flights with the Boeing 707. -
BOEING 707
The Boeing 707 is the first successful passenger jetliner, at the hands of Pan Am, flying between New York and Paris. -
CONCORDE
In 1969, the Concorde made its first flight, entered service in 1976 and flew for 27 years, until its decommissioning in 2003. Its main destinations were London Heathrow, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, John F. Kennedy and Washington airports. -
BOEING 747
The Boeing 747, commonly nicknamed "Jumbo", is a transcontinental wide-body commercial airliner manufactured by Boeing. It is known for its large size (it was the largest airliner for more than four decades until the Airbus company created the A380), and is among the most famous aircraft in the world.
It made its first commercial flight in 1970 and was the first wide-body aircraft. -
GOSSAMER ALBATROSS
Gossamer Albatross creates the first human-powered airplane. -
ANTONOV
It is a strategic transport aircraft designed and manufactured by Antonov in the Soviet Union during the 1980s.
Considered the largest aircraft in the world, it is also the heaviest aircraft in history at 640 tons.
First flight was on December 21, 1988. -
BOEING 777
The Boeing 777 is a twin-engine, long-range, wide-body, commercial jet aircraft manufactured by the U.S. company Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
It is the world's largest twin-engine aircraft and is often referred to as the "Triple Seven".
It is the first commercial aircraft designed entirely with computer-aided design.
Its first flight was on June 12, 1994. -
AIRBUS A380
It is a four-jet aircraft manufactured by the European company Airbus, a subsidiary of the Airbus Group.
It is the first jet aircraft with two decks along its entire fuselage, unlike the Boeing 747, which, although it also has two decks, the upper deck covers only the front part of the fuselage.
It has a maximum capacity of 853 passengers. -
Air Bus A-320 NEO
The fuselage of this aircraft, as well as the wings, also feature several modifications, including the installation of wing tip devices called sharklets, and various improvements to the fuselage interior.
The A320neo's first flight took place on September 25, 2014, and it was introduced by Lufthansa on January 25, 2016. -
Airbus A-350
It is a wide-body commercial jet aircraft built by Airbus.
The A350 is the first aircraft designed by Airbus in which both the fuselage and wing structures are mainly made of composite materials.
It can carry between 280 and 366 passengers, in a three-class configuration, depending on the variant. -
30th ANNIVERSARY OF HUBBLE
30th Anniversary of Launch of Hubble Space Telescope – Friday, April 24, 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. -
SPACEX' MISSION
SpaceX Dragon Lands After ISS Resupply Mission – SpaceX’s 19th Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station ends with the capsule’s splashdown in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Los Angeles with nearly 3,600 pounds of cargo and experiments.