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The Greek inventor got involved in a series of unfortunate decisions between King Minos and his family, leading him to be chased. Trying to survive, he designed a set of fashioned wings of wax and feathers. However, his son flew too close to the sun, melting his wings and dying in the sea. Meanwhile, Daedalus escaped with success.
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He created a silk wing connected to a wooden platform, then jumped off a cliff from a mountain and glided in the air, staying in flight for at least 10 minutes.
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His ornithopter flying machine was an aircraft that would fly by flapping its wings, a design he created to show how humans could fly. however, the designer never built this.
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Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier began to experiment with lighter-than-air flight. They created a round wicker basket tied to the balloon by a rope. The balloon left the ground and soared 600 meters into the air. Damaged by a rip in the fabric, it descended slowly eight minutes after traveling 3.5 km and got back to earth.
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Éole was a kind of motorized kite machine that achieved a short flight of around 50 m. It reached a height of around 20 cm. The poor steam engine and bad weather were felt to limit the flying height achieved. When he patented it in 1890, he applied the term "airplane" -
The monoplane glider, which he named “Normalsegelapparat” (Normal Glider), had a wingspan of 6.7 meters and a wing area of 13 square meters. Taking off from the slopes of the Rhine Mountains, Lilienthal carried out flights in which he was able to glide as high as 250 meters.
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Santos-Dumont had made an early demonstration of controlled flight in his dirigible No 6, flying around the Eiffel Tower on 19 October 1901, and won the Deutsch de la Moselle prize.
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Wilbur and Orville built and flew the first controlled aircraft, marking the beginning of aviation. Making a 12-second flight, traveling 36 m, with Orville piloting. The best flight of the day, with Wilbur at the controls, covered 255.6 m in 59 seconds.
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The Brazilian Santos-Dumont flew on 23 October 1906 his machine, the No 14-bis. The steering gear and the fuselage were located in front of the wings. It was also the first sustained flight in Europe.
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The Wrights performed public demonstrations of their aircraft in the United States and Europe, cementing their place in aviation history.
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Planes were used for military purposes by revolutionaries like Pancho Villa.
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Designed by William Dunne and built by Short Brothers, it was a swept-wing tailless biplane, which demonstrated extraordinary stability
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Tissandier, a French aviation pioneer, conducted a demonstration in Mexico City
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President Francisco I. Madero became the first president in office to fly in an airplane, it made him the first head of State in the World to fly on an airplane
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One of the first aircraft acquired by Pancho Villa was a two-seater twin-engine aircraft,
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A biplane designed by Thomas W. Benoist. The airplane was 7.925 meters long. The upper and lower wings both had a span of 13.411 meters. The passenger was St. Petersburg’s mayor, Abraham C. Pheil, and it was piloted for Antony Habersack Jannus, the ticket had a cost of $400 for 23 minutes.
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They negotiated the purchase of Wright's designs.
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This institution was fundamental for the training of pilots and the development of military aviation in the country.
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The Villistas made use of their air force at the battle of El Ébano, where it played a predominant role as a means of communication.
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With the combined strength of about fifty aircraft from four Jastas, JG I was the first fighter wing in the German Air Force (Luftstreitkräfte).
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The Germans achieved moderate success in long-range bombing operations with the zeppelin-type rigid airship, which could attain higher altitudes than the airplanes then available.
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Engineer Juan Guillermo Villasana López designed and manufactured a new model of propeller.
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Aero México (originally known as Aéreo México) was founded, which marked the beginning of commercial aviation.
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Charles Lindbergh made the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Long Island, New York to Paris, in the Spirit of St. Louis, catapulting him to international fame.
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The German airship Hindenburg caught fire as it landed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, after crossing the Atlantic. Thirty-five of its 97 occupants and one ground worker died. The disaster brought to a close the era of airships.
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A Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, operated by Germany's Lufthansa, flew non-stop from Berlin to New York in about 25 hours, demonstrating that conventional aircraft could be used to transport passengers across the ocean.
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An American single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter-bomber that was used by most Allied powers during World War II, and remained in frontline service until the end of the war. It was the third most-produced American fighter of World War II
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The Ilyushin Il-2 is a ground-attack plane that was produced by the Soviet Union in large numbers.
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It was created The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA), which became the actual Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), to regulate civil aviation.
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Squadron 201 was created and formed by the Mexican Air Force (FAM).A group of pilots and support personnel.
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The first manned supersonic flight was piloted by U.S. Air Force Captain Charles Chuck Yeager. He flew a Bell X-1 that Yeager had named the Glamorous Glennis in honor of his wife.
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The first commercial jet aircraft (analogous to most passenger aircraft today) was a De Havilland Comet, operated by the British public company BOAC.
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NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) was created to lead space exploration and develop new aeronautical technologies.
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Alan Shepard became the first American in space. Mercury Redstone 3
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The Apollo 11 mission took astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon, marking a milestone in space exploration and aerospace technology.
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The system was an upgraded IAI Scout drone and featured significant payload improvements. During the Gulf War, some Iraqi forces even surrendered to a Pioneer UAV.
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The digital revolution came to flight control and aircraft design. The Boeing 777 became the first aircraft designed entirely by computer. It also had a computerized fly-by-wire control system.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) implemented new regulations to improve aviation safety after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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Elon Musk made the first successful landing of a reusable rocket, revolutionizing access to space.
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Mexico City International Airport (AICM), has been an important step to improve the capacity and efficiency of airport infrastructure in Mexico.