How Planes were made

By 22jacobl

  • hot air bollon

    hot air bollon
    The brothers Joseph-Ralf and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier developed a hot air balloon in Annonay, Ardeche, France, and demonstrated it publicly on September 19, 1783, making an unmanned flight lasting 10 minutes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_balloon

  • blimps

    blimps
    in 1900, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin of Germany invented the first rigid airship. and now is somtimes called a zepplin

  • Flying for the first time

    Flying for the first time
    On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day with
    Orville's brother Wilbur piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/wright.htm

  • aouto pilot

    aouto pilot
    On this date (June 18th) in 1914, autopilot was demonstrated for the first time on an aircraft, becoming one of the most important innovations to the cockpit in history http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/lawrence-sperry-inventor-of-the-autopilot-and-the-m-1592623110

  • planes for war

    planes for war
    with the advent of World War I, the military value of aircraft was quickly recognized and production increased significantly to meet the soaring demand for planes from governments on both sides of the Atlantic. http://www.avjobs.com/history/

  • mail in the air

    mail in the air
    By 1917, the U.S. government felt enough progress had been made in the development of planes to warrant something totally new - the transport of mail by air. That year, Congress appropriated $100,000 for an experimental airmail service to be conducted jointly by the Army and the Post Office between Washington and New York, with an intermediate stop in Philadelphia. The first flight left Belmont Park, Long Island for Philadelphia on May 14, 1918 http://www.avjobs.com/history/

  • Flying at night

    Flying at night
    In 1921, the Army deployed rotating beacons in a line between Columbus and Dayton, Ohio, a distance of about 80 miles. The beacons, visible to pilots at 10-second intervals, made it possible to fly the route at night http://www.avjobs.com/history/

  • public transportation

    public transportation
    Boeing built what generally is considered the first modern passenger airliner, the Boeing 247. It was unveiled in 1933, and United Air Lines promptly bought 60 of them. http://www.avjobs.com/history/

  • having your own private plane

    having your own private plane
    Julien’s Auctions, the auction house to the stars, has announced the rare opportunity to own Elvis Presley’s private planes, the “Lisa Marie” and "Hound Dog II. https://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/2015/elvis-presley/