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Invention of the fixed wing aircraft
1700:
1799- Sir George Cayley invented the concept of the fixed wing aircart. -
Clement Ader: Flew a steam powered, bat winged monoplane.
1800:
1890- Clement Ader flew a steam powerd, bat winged monoplane, which he named the Eole, a distance of 50 miles (160) feet near pairs. The steam engine was unsuitable for sustained and controlled fight, which required the gasoline engines. -
Wright Brothers
The Wright flyer lifts into air at 10:35 a.m. The flight lasted only 12 seconds covered a distance of just 121 feet (37m). It is the first powered manned, heavier then air controlled flight. -
The U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Air Force conducts tests of a special 30 ft parachute to act as brakes and shorten the landing run of jet airplanes using a Boeing xB-47 for purpose. -
A first test on aircraft.
-X-15 (experimental aircraft sets altitude record of 345, 200 feet (67miles) with speed of 4,159 mph. -
Solar Challenger
Solar Challenger flew 163 miles across the English channel from Paris to England. -
Ballon Flight
After a 46,759 mile balloon flight which lasted 19 days, 21 hours and 55 minutes the Breitling Orbitier 3 balloon, flown by Brain Jones and Bertand Piccard, achieves a non-stop the world balloon flight. -
First fight of the Boeing
2000
2002- First flight of the Boeing 747-ER, which can carry 15,000 more pounds of people or cargo and can fly about 410 nautical miles farther than existing 747-400s. -
David Hempleman Adams
2000,
2003- David Hempleman Adams became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic in an open wicker basket balloon. The flight took 83 hours, 14 mins, 35 secs to complete. -
Boeing
Boeing delivered the last 757 to Shanghai Airlines after 23 years of production. The 757 fleet worldwide has flown more than 35 million hours, which is equivalent to one airplane flying continuously for 4,000 years. -
S2 Personal Plane
2010
2014- S2 Personal Plane could one day make Runways obsolete. As part of it's Invention Awards 2014, Popular science reported on the S2 personal electric airplane created by Joe Ben Bevirt, that lauches like a helicopter but flies aerodynamically like an airplane. His team developed two dozen 10 pound models that have drawn the interest of NASA as the ageceny is now funding construction of a 55 pound unmmaned aerail vehicle. The full sale vehicle could one day fly two people 200 miles on the