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The first flight of an object heavier than air commenced in 1903 by the Wright brothers. The distance of 37m.
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French pilot Roland Garros flew the first ever fighter plane. The plane was armed with a machine gun that shot through its propeller. While piloting the fighter plane took down 5 planes.
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In the year of 1918 Hugo Junkers built the first all metal plane. The metal was a lightweight aluminum alloy called duralumin.
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The Farman F.60 Goliath was a French airliner and bomber produced by the Farman Aviation Works from 1919. It was instrumental in the creation of early airlines and commercial routes in Europe after World War I.
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Boeing 307
The boeing 307 stratoline was the first fully pressurized plane. This allowed it to fly 6.096 km high. Because it could fly so high it flew above the weather so if there was rough winds they just fly above it and the passengers would have a more comfortable ride. -
The first turbojet aircraft to fly was the Heinkel He 178 V1 first prototype of the German Air Force, the Luftwaffe, on August 27, 1939 in Rostock (Germany).
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The Learjet was the first small jet to be mass produced
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North American X-15 This aircraft has the current world record for the fastest manned aircraft. Its maximum speed was mach 6.70 (about 7,200 km/h) which it attained on the 3rd of October 1967 thanks to its pilot William J. Pete
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The Beoing 747 conducts its first flight. It is a widebodied commercial airline. It was the most successful airline ever made.
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The invention of the Concorde commenced in 1969. It was the first supersonic airliner with speeds that reached double the speed of sound!
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The voyager was the first plane to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in only 9 days, using one tank of fuel. The voyager used a carbon-composite material which makes it lighter
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The B-2 Spirit was the most expensive plane ever made, it cost more than one Billion dollars to build. The B-2 Spirit was a long range bomber so it uses less fuel.
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The Airbus A380 is a double-decker plane. It is the largest plane built in the worldand had enough seats for 853 people.
