Awsome Aviation

First Flight (Wright Brothers)

Dec 17, 1903

The brothers first flight was at Kitty Hawk in 1903 With the plane the Wright Flyer

Geneve Shaffer

Aug 1, 1909

Geneve Shaffer flew a glider designed and built by her brother.

Stinson Sisters

Dec 1, 1915

These 2 tough girls made a school for flight to help in most wars for pilots in the army.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Sep 28, 1918

By the close of the war Rickenbacker had collected a set of 26 'kills', making him America's most successful fighter pilot of the war.

Bessie Coleman

Jun 15, 1921

The first african american to gain a pilot license in the U.S. she got her license this day June 15.

good chance for a good day

Apr 1, 1928

This young aviator got a call in april to be the first to fly the atlantic.

Amelia Earhart

May 20, 1932

She was the first women to fly across the Atlantic solo.
WOO HOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Douglas Davis

Jan 1, 1934

Congrat's douglas you just won the Bendix Race! (Mr. Davis is a famous barmstormer)

Beryl Markham

Jan 1, 1936

she was the first to fly west across the atlantic ocean

Kidnapping the kid

Mar 1, 1938

Lindberghs' 20-month-old son, Charles Augustus, Jr., was kidnapped from the family home in New Jersey.

T. Claude Ryan

Sep 1, 1939

During World War II the Ryan School of Aeronautics Company trained 14,000 Army Air Corps pilots. Though rarely successful, his company would remain a famously unusual and daring innovator in aviation well into the jet age.

Jacqueline Cochran

Apr 1, 1940

In April, Cochran breaks the 2,000 kilometer international speed record and the 100 kilometer national record.

Rotar wing/ Across the atlantic

Aug 1, 1951

This was the day when the first rotary-wing aircraft crossed the atlantic.

NASA IS FORMED!

Oct 1, 1958

National Aeronautics and Space Administration replaces NACA.

Neil Armstrong

Mar 16, 1966

this was the day that neil was the first person on the MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!