Air Transportation By RyG99 1000 BCE First fully electric flight 1783 1st balloon flight 1852 first blimp 1891 first person to glide through the sky 1903 Wright brothers invent first airplane 1906 first controlled and motorized flight 1909 first flight across the English Channel 1909 first military airplane in the world 1910 First female pilot 1911 first bomber plane 1912 first bomber plane 1915 world's first all-metal aircraft. 1919 The First Airline 1923 The first round-the-world flight 1927 first non stop flight across the atlantic 1928 First flight over the North Pole 1932 first woman to fly a solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight. 1937 Hindenburg crash 1937 Amelia Earhart goes missing 1947 first plane to break the sound barrier 1959 world's fastest fighter jet 1970 creation of the Boeing 747 1976 First commercial flight of the Concorde 2003 Concorde's last flight 2007 creation of The Airbus A380 2019 First fully electric flight