Flight

First Heavier Than Air

Dec 20, 1903

December 1903- The Wright brothers successfully fly the very first heavier than air powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer 1, for 120 yards in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, U.S

First Flight Of Ford Trimotor

Jun 20, 1926

June 1926- The ford trimotor plane had space for 12 passengers and was the first plane to make air travel potentially profitable

First Female Flight Attendant

May 20, 1930

May 1930- The first female flight attendant was a 25-year-old registered nurse named Ellen Church

First Turbojet Flight

Aug 21, 1939

August 1939- Just before their invasion of Poland, the Germans flew a Heinkel He-178 plane powered by a Heinkel S3B turbojet

First Piloted Supersonic Flight

Oct 21, 1947

October 1947- Capt. Charles E. Yeager, U.S. Air Force, flew the X-1 rocket-powered research plane built by Bell Aircraft Corp., faster than the speed of sound at Muroc Air Force Base, Calif

First Jetliner Service

May 21, 1952

May 1952- The De Havilland Comet flight was inaugurated by BOAC between London and Johannesburg, South Africa. Flight, including stops, took 23 hr., 38 min

First Supersonic Passenger Plane Test Flight

Dec 21, 1968

December 1968- Two months before concord the Soviet Union test flew the Tupolev Tu-144

Boeing 747 Enters Public Service

Jan 21, 1970

January 1970-1976- The 747 entered service on January 22, 1970, on on Pan Am flights to New York

Concorde Starts Flights To New York

Jan 21, 1976

January 1976- Air France and British Airways inaugurated service of Concorde

First Manned Private Space Flight

Apr 21, 2004

June 2004- Burt Rutan's Space Ship One was the world’s first privately developed and operated space ship to reach earth orbit