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The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. Wilbur and Orville made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their powered aircraft. -
Bessie Coleman became the first African-American to gain a pilot's license. -
Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly a solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight. -
First flights of supersonic transport- Soviet TU-144 and Anglo-French Concorde. -
Boeing 747 makes the first commercial flight. -
Concorde begins it's first passenger-carrying service. -
Bryan Allen pedals the Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel, breaking the distance record for human-powered flight. -
Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager fly the US ultralight Voyager around the world in a 9-day non-stop flight from California to California.