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  • first successful model

    first successful model
    Samuel Pierpont Langley builds a gasoline-powered version of his tandem-winged "Aerodromes."
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    the history of the airplane

  • First sustained flight with a powered, controlled airplane

    First sustained flight with a powered, controlled airplane
    Keitz, M. (n.d.). http://www.greatachievements.org. Retrieved from http://www.greatachievements.orgFirst sustained flight with a powered, controlled airplane Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, complete the first four sustained flights with a powered, controlled airplane.
  • first take off

    first take off
    Eugene Ely pilots a Curtiss biplane on the first flight to take off from a ship. In November he departs from the deck of a cruiser anchored in Hampton Roads, Virginia, and lands onshore
  • first auto matic poilt

    first auto matic poilt
    Lawrence Sperry demonstrates an automatic gyrostabilizer at Lake Keuka, Hammondsport, New York.
  • the J4 junker was invetioned

    the J4 junker was invetioned
    Hugo Junkers, a German professor of mechanics introduces the Junkers J4, an all-metal airplane
  • The U.S Navey made the first airplane crosssing over the north alantic

  • the first commical airline

  • jet engine desighned

    jet engine desighned
  • First practical singlerotor helicopters

    First practical singlerotor helicopters
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    WWII spurs innovetions

  • B-52 bomber

    B-52 bomber