History Of Aviation

By AviationStuds
  • built a kite
    1000 BCE

    built a kite

    first time man thought of flying
  • Gun powder
    Jan 1, 900

    Gun powder

    This lead to the creation of rockets
  • Built a Simple Rocket
    Jan 1, 1100

    Built a Simple Rocket

    This lead to Wang Ho
  • Kite carried man

    Kite carried man

    This is the first time a man flew
  • Henry Carendish discovered Hydrogen

    Henry Carendish discovered Hydrogen

    This was a flammable gas that would lead balloons
  • First women to fly alone

    First women to fly alone

    This was important to the history because at this time women had no rights but yet they flew
  • Wind tunnel

    Wind tunnel

    Francis Wenham invented the wind tunnel
  • Secret Glider

    Secret Glider

    John Mountgomer built a secret glider that went 600 ft.
  • Zeppelin was created

    Zeppelin was created

    Count Ferdinand Zeppelin built the first ridged dirigible
  • First man powered flight

    First man powered flight

    This important because it was the first man to get the in the air with an engine and this would lead to the advancement of planes
  • Wrights & Curtis opened flight schools

    Wrights & Curtis opened flight schools

    This is important to the history of aviation because this will teach more people how to fly planes and it will raise the number of pilots in the world
  • Writer Harriet Quimby, first licensed pilot

    Writer Harriet Quimby, first licensed pilot

    She was the first licensed women pilot and this lead to more women thinking they can do more
  • Harriet Quimby first women to fly solo across English channel

    Harriet Quimby first women to fly solo across English channel

    lead to women thinking they can do more in life
  • Harriet died flying with a passenger

    Harriet died flying with a passenger

  • First commercial flight

    First commercial flight

    The worlds first regularly scheduled service with a heavier-than air craft. It cost $5 to fly and it would fly from St. Pettersburg Florida to Tampa Florida
    This was important to the history of Aviation because this was the first time they attempted to fly with more than one passenger and they payed to fly from one spot to another
  • Boeing won army challenge with the 299

    Boeing won army challenge with the 299

    With the army making a challenge it triggered a race to improve aviation
  • Amelia Earhart flight across Atlantic

    Amelia Earhart flight across Atlantic

    First women to fly across Atlantic alone showed that women can do anything a man can do
  • First jet made by germany

    First jet made by germany

    this wasn't very good but it was the first supersonic jet

  • Fall of France

    France was a big allie to the US and British and this led to the US thinking that war might be coming
  • Period: to

    Attack on England

    This attack was Germany's plan to run the top countries in Europe and so they tried by air and failed the British never lost control of the English Channel this will play a big part in the war

  • Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese bombed the US Navel base Pearl Harbor and this is what got the US in the war

  • First Helicopter

    this made Leonardo Di Vinci dreams come true
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    This is the US attack on Omaha Beach that had a lot of airel strikes and that lead to the end of the war

  • Start studding how to break the sound barrer

    this means they want to go faster and made aviation excel fast
  • Period: to

    Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    this ended WW2
  • First supersonic flight

    First supersonic flight

    This is the first step towards jets we have today
  • Mach 2 first flight

    Mach 2 first flight

    This was the second step towards the jets we have today
  • Boeing 707

    Boeing 707

    This plane was the best plane of its time it outclassed every airliner
  • Mach 3 first flight

    Mach 3 first flight

    the third step of breaking the sound barer
  • First commercial jet aircraft

    First commercial jet aircraft

    This was a very helpful but not effective way to get to places faster
  • Boeing 727

    Boeing 727

    Just advancing in efficiency with tail engine
  • Boeing 747

    Boeing 747

    Revolutionized the Aviation Industry
  • Concorde took flight

    Concorde took flight

    Supersonic commercial jet that both France and Britten flew
  • 9/11 Tarriest Attacks

    9/11 Tarriest Attacks

    set back the aviation industry for a long time
  • Concorde program ended

    Concorde program ended

    Because of Aviation Industry plummeting because of 9/11