Flight Timeline

By Warren Turner
  • Tales of flying men.
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    Tales of flying men.

    Many tales, such as Icarus were about flying or humans being able to fly with bird-like wings.
  • Period: 500 to 1400

    Middle Ages

    Tales of flying people were still told, and drawings of flight spells could be found. A monk named Eilmer of Malmesbury even tried making wings of chicken feathers and flying off of the top of a castle. Flight had not yet been achieved.
  • Da Vinci's ornithopter
    1480

    Da Vinci's ornithopter

    Da Vinci had over 200 drawings and schematics of a flying machine called an ornithopter.
  • Period: to

    Attempts at flight

    Around this period, many people attempted flight, such as Percy Pilcher and Richard Pearses
  • Hot air balloon

    Hot air balloon

    The first hot air balloons were created by Pilatre De Rozier, the first flight only lasted 15 minutes. Balloons were planned to be used by Napoleon in his failed invasion of Britain.
  • Invention of Flight

    Invention of Flight

    The Wright brothers made a plane and tested it at Kitty Hawk, the plane flew for 12 seconds.

  • First Flight across English Channel

    On July 25, 1909, Louis Bleriot Flew across the English Channel.
  • Period: to

    World War I

    Planes started to be used in war in dogfights, or as scouts. Aces such as The Red Baron started to appear.