Aircraft

Airplane timeline

By Matt pd.6
  • leonardo da vinci's ornithopter
    Jan 1, 1505

    leonardo da vinci's ornithopter

    First design of a human flight device.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1505 to

    Many failed designs of aircrafts

  • First sucessful flight

    First sucessful flight

    The wright brothers first sucessful flight in a powered aircraft.
  • First autopilot

    First autopilot

    The first automatic gyrostabilizer.
  • Period: to

    Dramatic changes throughout the design of the aircraft

    Improvements in control, aerodynamics, structure,speed, and higher altitude.
  • Period: to

    light weight, air-cooled engines

    thease new engines provided the same power but more effecently and longer run time
  • First comercial airliner

    First comercial airliner

    This innovation opened the door for many great innovations in the future
  • Jet engine designed

    Jet engine designed

    this innovation was the key-stone in modern airplanes and jets.
  • Sound barrier broken

    Sound barrier broken

    This proved to people that airplanes were allways improving and getting alot better
  • First jet-powered commercial airliner

    First jet-powered commercial airliner

    This made commercial air travel way more effecent and faster.
  • First mass-production jet plane

    First mass-production jet plane

    this opened many doors for the future of plane production
  • First flight of a boeing 747

    First flight of a boeing 747

    the first flight of one of the most sucessful airplanes ever.
  • First airplane designed on a computer

    First airplane designed on a computer

    this is the way of all modern design
  • Period: to

    Development of supersonic airliner

    this is still happening to this day but once this is completed, it will be the most effecent airliner ever invented.