Flight

By jacob pietrzak

  • First free voyage in a balloon

    Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes make the first free aerial voyage in a Montgolfier hot-air balloon.
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  • Crossing the English Channel in a hot-air balloon.

    Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries cross the English Channel by balloon.

  • First parachute from balloon.

    André Jacques Garnerin makes the first human parachute descent, from a balloon.

  • Gliding?

    Otto Lilienthal begins successful gliding experiments.

  • Orville and Wilbur Make first powered and controlled flight machine.

    Orville and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine.