DaVinci: plan for a man-carrying ornithopter with flapping wings.
Leonardo daVinci invents a ornithopter with movable wings.
Period: Jan 1, 1490 to
Airplanes
Montgolfier hot-air balloon.
Sir George Cayley: Plan for a fixed-wing aircraft.
William Henson: The Aerial Steam, the first aircraft design to show propellers.
1880-1898, inventors debate between training pilots or building inherently stable planes.
Wilbur Wright writes the Smithsonian asking for published materials on aeronautics. He is answered by Richard Rathbun, who sends four pamphlets and a list of other publications.
he brothers begin planning a man-carrying version using data tables developed by Otto Lilienthal to achieve the necessary lift.
Samuel Langley and Charles Manly make additional flights with Aerodromes Nos. 5 and 6.
Orville Wright makes the first powered flight in a fully controllable aircraft capable of sustaining itself in the air.
Concept of a fixed "boundary layer" described in paper by Ludwig Prandtl
The Dunne flying wing, built and tested by the British was the first top secret aircraft.
First take off from a ship
Automatic gyrostabilizer leads to first automatic pilot
14-18 Dramatic improvements in structures and control and propulsion systems
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
The Junkers J4, an all-metal airplane, introduced
Airmail service inaugurated
U.S. Navy aviators make the first airplane crossing of the North Atlantic
Passenger service across the English Channel introduced
Introduction of lightweight, air-cooled radial engines
First nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic
Jet engines designed
Sound barrior broken
Nasa established, aeronautics contributes to the development of satelite launching technology.
The first satelite T.V is streamed:
Boeing 747
Joint research program to develop second-generation supersonic airliner
NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System will get an upgrade as the agency launches the first of a new generation of communications satellites to connect spacecraft to the ground stations that support them.
