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Hot Air Balloons
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, in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers. -
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Drones
Drones long history. One of the first recorded usages of drones was by Austrians on August 22, 1849. They launched some 200 pilotless balloons mounted with bombs against the city of Venice. Less than two decades later in the U.S. Civil War, Confederate and Union forces both flew balloons for reconnaissance missions. -
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Airplanes
On this day in History, First airplane flies on Dec 17, 1903. ... Unlike their older brothers, Orville and Wilbur did not attend college, but they ... offered steady winds and sand dunes from which to glide and land softly. ... The engine stalled during take-off and the plane was damaged, and they spent three days repairing it. -
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JetPacks
Jet pack, rocket belt, rocket pack and similar names are used for various types of devices, ... The first jet pack was developed in 1919 by the Russian inventor Aleksandr Fyodorovich Andreyev. ... The classical rocket pack construction of Wendell Moore can be made under workshop conditions, given good engineering . -
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Hang Glider
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1929. George A. Spratt demonstrated the use of the triangular control frame for hang glider pendulum weight-shift control, mechanically similar to that used in 1908 in a hang glider in Breslau. Later in the 1930s he invented the Control Wing aircraft. 1933. -
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Jets
1st jet aircraft takes flight, August 27, 1939. The turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft, took its first flight on August 27, 1939. It was flown by German test pilot Erich Warsitz -
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Helicopter
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On September 14, 1939, the VS-300, the world's first practical helicopter, took flight at Stratford, Connecticut. Designed by Igor Sikorsky and built by the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corporation, the helicopter was this first to incorporate a single main rotor and tail rotor design. -
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Spaceships
The first launch of the Space Shuttle occurred on 12 April 1981, exactly 20 years after the first manned space flight, when the orbiter Columbia, with two crew members, astronauts John W. Young, commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot, lifted off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, at the Kennedy Space Center.