Flight Over Time

By Paige.Wettekin

  • The First Flight

    The First Flight
    The Wright Brothers had the first flight on this day. It was in North Carolina and it lasted 20 feet wide.

  • First take off from a ship

    First take off from a ship
    Eugene Ely pilots a Curtiss biplane on the first flight to take off from a ship.

  • All metal airplane, introduced

    All metal airplane, introduced
    Hugo Junkers, a German professor of mechanics introduces the Junkers J4, an all-metal airplane built largely of duralumin.

  • First Nonstop Flight Over Atlantic Ocean

    First Nonstop Flight Over Atlantic Ocean
    On this day Charles Lindbergh flew over the Atlantic Ocean. He traveled 3600 miles from New York to Paris.

  • First Modern Commercial Airliner

    First Modern Commercial Airliner
    A twin engine 10 passenger monoplane is introduced for being the first modern commercial airliner.

  • Jet engines designed

    Jet engines designed
    Jet engines designed independently by Britain’s Frank Whittle and Germany’s Hans von Ohain make their first test runs.

  • Sound barrior broken

    Sound barrior broken
    U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager becomes the fastest man alive when he pilots the Bell X-1 faster than sound for the first time on October 14 over the town of Victorville, California.

  • First jet-powered commercial aircraft

    First jet-powered commercial aircraft
    The airplane De Havilland Comet makes its first flight on July 27.