flight technology

first hot air balloon

Sep 17, 1783

The brothers Joseph-Ralf and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier developed a hot air balloon in Annonay, Ardeche, France

first airplane

Dec 17, 1903

Two American brothers, inventors, got credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903 four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

first helicopter

Sep 14, 1939

Took flight at Stratford, Connecticut. Designed by Igor Sikorsky and built by the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corporation

first private jet

Sep 7, 1957

The Lockheed JetStar is the earliest Business Jet

first spaceship

Oct 31, 1962

the first spaceship landed on Venus. Directed by Kurt Maetzig and starring Günther Simon