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The Pingeon by Archytas; the naming of this device came from the fact that it resembled the shape of a pigeon: wings on either side and a pointed front like a beak. The pigeon contained an opening at its rear which was connected to a heated boiler. -
The Englishman Roger Bacon makes a description of the ornithopter in his book Secrets of Art and Nature. The ormthopter is a glider-like contraption, whose wings move like a bird's. -
Leonardo Da Vinci produced more than 35,000 words and 500 sketches dealing with flying machines, the nature of air, and bird flight, the possibility of human mechanical flight held particular fascination. -
Bartolomeo de Gusmao, also known as "the flying father", describes, and probably builds, the first balloon in history.
He shows it and demonstrates it, with the paper device, in the Lisbon courtyard to King John V of Portugal. -
Emanuel Swedenborg dedicated his life precisely to scientific research, he published the first aviation study "Sketch of a Machine for Flying in the Air".
He made plans for an airplane, a submarine, discovered the function of the endocrine glands, the functioning of the brain and the cerebellum. -
The first flight in a balloon made up of a human crew was carried out by Jacques Charles and Ainé Roberts, they flew over the city of Paris for around 25 minutes. -
The French Artillery Service creates the world's first air force in the form of a balloon company under the command of Captain Coutelle, which will see combat that same year at Fleurus, Belgium. -
Frenchman André-Jacques Gamerin made the first parachute descent from an aircraft by launching from a balloon 680 meters above Mongeau Park in Paris. -
Engineer and inventor George Cayley, he dedicated himself to the study of aerial locomotion from a scientific perspective Cayley made one of the most important discoveries in the history of aviation, understanding that air flowing over a fixed, curved wing creates lift, a force that makes the wing rise. -
William Samuel Henson and John Stringfellow set out in the mid-19th century to design the first flying car in history.
They build a model steam-powered plane with a width of 4 meters and a half and unmanned, which manages to fly successfully traveling 40 meters -
For the first time in the Austrian war against Venice bomber balloons are used by Austria -
His work culminated in the completion of a full-scale glider that carried his reluctant coachman on the first recorded manned glider flight. Becoming the first adult pilot of an uncontrollable airplane, at Brompton Dale -
German engineer, Paul Haenlein, first used an internal-combustion engine for flight in an airship that used lifting gas from the bag as fuel. -
Gaston Tissandier installed a Siemens (multinational conglomerate energy, industry and health corporation) electric motor in a blimp, thus creating the first flight powered by electricity. -
Otto Lilienthal built several wings in 1891 made primarily of wicker and cloth. In total, he made more than 2,000 flights with them, some of them exceeding 300 meters of travel. -
The airship was built by the Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin house, had a capacity for 20 passengers spread over a length of 236.53 meters and reached a maximum speed of 128 km/h, thanks to the 5 Maybach 550CV engines that They aided their propulsion. Ferdinand von Zeppelin created his first airship and successfully flies over Lake Constance. On this trip a total of 5 people accompanied the inventor. The journey lasted exactly 17 minutes and covered 6km. -
The pioneers brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright undertook what is considered the first flight with a heavier-than-air engine. After 4 years of experiments, the Wright brothers' first flight lasted 12 seconds, in which their plane, the "Wright Flyer", traveled 36 meters, although it did not rise more than a few centimeters from the ground. -
Henri Fabre, who patented Le Canard, carried out advanced studies in science. We then intensively studied aircraft and propeller designs. He patented a system of flotation devices, which he used when he discovered taking off from the surface of the Berre Pond on March 28. -
To commemorate the Centennial of the Independence of Mexico, the first flight of an airplane took place, which took off from some plains of the Hacienda de Balbuena located next to Mexico City. -
The aviator Glenn Curtiss created the "water" plane, designed the first means of air transport, which could take off and land on water -
The company Sperry Gyroscope Company Limited tested a device that ran an automated system, which allowed piloting without the pilot fixing his eyes on the ground. -
With the union of designers and pilots, the "Wasserkuppe" group was created from which gliding was born. In 1914 they managed to carry out innumerable flights in which they perfected the technique until reaching 1.52 minutes of duration and 830 meters of travel. At the beginning of the First World War, the construction of gliders gave way to that of airplanes. -
First commercial flight was by pilot Tony Jannus who landed his seaplane in Tampa after a 23-minute flight. He had departed from St. Petersburg, Florida, with the former mayor of this town on board. -
During World War I, countries focused on improving their own resources, which led to an aviation boom. Many of the aircraft used during the Great War were sold because they were not used in peacetime and would also be replaced by better ones. This led to a technological acceleration that led to both the development of the aeronautical industry and the achievement of several milestones and personal marks around that period. -
First flight of the Royal Dutch airline KLM, to serve the Netherlands in Europe, as well as Dutch-speaking nations in the Caribbean and other continents. The oldest in the world. -
Mexicana de Aviación, was founded in 1921 and before its disappearance in 2010, it was the oldest airline in Mexico and the third oldest airline in the world. -
Improvements in radio communications technology allowed the use of equipment of this type in aircraft, so pilots could receive flight instructions from equipment on the ground, and pilots of different aircraft could also communicate with each other
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El DC-1 fue el primero de una serie de aparatos de la Douglas, y que culminaría en el Dakota DC- 3. El DC-3, llamado en su momento DCT (Douglas Sleeper Transport), fue diseñado por Fred Stineman y voló a finales de 1935 para conmemorar el trigésimo segundo aniversario del vuelo de los hermanos Wright. -
The inaugural flight of the new civil airliner was made, identified by the company as Boeing Model 247, which would make the jump to the new modern aircraft. -
The airship era ended when the airship Hindenburg suffered an accident in Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA, in which 35 people died. -
The first pressurized aircraft, it could keep the atmosphere inside the cabin thanks to its regulated air compressor, -
One of the greatest catastrophes of humanity. The United States dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima the atomic bomb with uranium of 13 thousand TNT (trinitrotoluene) during World War II
it destroyed 70% of Hiroshima and generated a heat of 3 thousand degrees Celsius in its center.
The United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber aircraft dropped the nuclear bomb. -
Chalmers Goodlin, who made the first glide flight in the Bell X-1 that was the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in level flight. It was the first of the so-called X-planes -
The Soviet Union got ahead of the United States again when Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to outer space, a month before the American Alan Shepard repeated the feat. -
The Tupolev Tu-144 was the world's first supersonic passenger aircraft. It was a great milestone for the Soviet Union in the history of aviation. Manufacturers in France and the United Kingdom also had success with the Concorde, a supersonic plane that could exceed 2,000 kilometers per hour. -
Apollo was the 11th, that two astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, became the first human beings to walk on the lunar surface using Command Module: Columbia Lunar Module: Eagle. -
The USSR added a new pioneering record in the space race to the many it already had: the launch and putting into orbit of the Salyut 1 Station, the first space station worthy of the name, capable of reaching orbit automatically without the need for crew and with the capacity to be inhabited for long periods as well as to receive manned Soyuz ships through an efficient space exactly system and a docking port. -
it was put into orbit as a joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). The telescope can obtain optical resolutions greater than 0.1 arc second. It has a total weight of around 11,000 kilos. It is cylindrical in shape, with a length of 13.2 m and a maximum diameter of 4.2 meters. -
The Boeing 777 made its first flight, becoming the first aircraft designed and planned entirely with computers. -
The ISS is a joint project between the United States, Russia, Japan, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
The first part of the station was launched in 1998, and the last module was placed in 2011. -
Two American Airlines and two United Airlines planes were used in the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York.
From this moment on, the security measures taken at airports were increased. -
The NASA X-43 was an experimental unmanned aircraft powered by a scramjet engine designed to fly at speeds greater than Mach 10. It managed to fly at 12,144 km/h setting the record for speed in flight within the atmosphere.