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The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight was performed by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes on November 21, 1783, in Paris, France
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Sir George Cayley set forth the concept of the modern airplane. Designer of the first glider to carry a human being aloft, he discovered and identified the four aerodynamic forces of flight, which act on any flying vehicle: weight, lift, drag, and thrust.
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German pioneer of human aviation Otto Lilienthal also studied heavier-than-air flight and gliding.
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The Wright brothers invented and flew the first airplane
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The first dog-fight is believed to have taken place on 28th August 1914, when Lieutenant Norman Spratt, flying a Sopwith Tabloid, forced down a German two-seater. This was an amazing achievement as his Sopwith was not armed.
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The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast
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The first jet aircraft was the German Heinkel He 178 in 1939
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The first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, was introduced.
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The Boeing 707, the first widely successful commercial jet, was in commercial service for more than 50 years
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Concord crashed due to forein object in the engine. End of the concord plane.
