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Roger Bacon, an english cleric wrote about mechanical flight, gave us the conclusion that the air could support an object in the same way the water resist a boat. -
Giovanni Fontana designed a bird able to fly.
Driven by a rocket among its artificial feathers (plane to reaction in a primitive way). -
Leonardo Da Vinci makes a lots of advances in this science -
Francesco de Lana Terzi made the first known design of an apparatus, it was ligther than air and it had a form of boat -
Henry Cavendish discovered that hydrogen had a property that made it useful in experiments in which heavier-than-air objects were lifted from the ground. -
Joseph and his brother raised a balloon over the city of Annonay in 1783, giving the first step to the origin of airships -
George Cayley, a British engineer considered by his studies to be the father of aerodynamics. He was the first to see the needs for aeronautics' basic principles -
William Samuel Henson convinced and patented the first airplane to be equipped with a steam engine, propellers and a fixed wing -
Henri Giffard is considered as the inventor of the dirigible -
Le Bris was the first person to build a glider which was dragged by a horse and made its first flight on the beach of Sainteanne-la-palud in Finisterre achieving a distance of 200 meters at an altitude of 100 meters. -
Gaston Tissander was the first one who made this -
The Wright Brothers begin researching and designing an airplane that is heavier than air and can be propelled by its own means. -
It managed to transport 5 people on a journey of 6 km in a time of 17 minutes to a altuya of 396 meters with two internal combustion engines and was controlled by bow and stern rudders. -
The Wright Brothers make the first powered flight in history in kitty Hawk aboard the Flyer. -
The first airplanes were used to transport mail -
In 1919 begins the first airline in the world that currently provides its service is considered the oldest airline. -
The first air transport treaty (the Warsaw Convention) was signed, in which every carrier was obliged to issue an air ticket and a baggage check. -
The first transpacifico flight was operated by Pan Am in a clipper which lasted 1 seman with many stopovers and delivering 100,000 mail letters between San Francisco and Manila -
The plane that changed the world. The Douglas DC-3 enters service on Américan Airlines with non-stop flight from New York to Chicago this plane has a cost of 100,000 dollars -
The first reaction flight was made by the De havilland Comet which entered service with Boac. This aircraft presented a lot of problem and its later models were improving this stop being in service since 1965. -
Boeing 747 enters service the first aircraft with wide fuselage making flights from New York to London made by the airline Pan Am -
It begins to provide its services the first personal plane this made flights from London to Bahrain and from Paris to Rio de Janeiro this provided its services for 27 years since after it was considered a plane which made a lot of noise and polluted the environment. -
Cathay pacific made the first transpolar flight linking New York and Hong Kong in just 16 hours of travel through the North Pole, this union improved the economy of the United States and its connection with Asia