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The Wright Brothers built the first airplane.
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Eugene Ely takes off from a ship.
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Improvements lets planes be controlled more easily and better maneuverability.
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Lawrence Sperry install the gyrostabilizer that would allow flight without a human pilot aid.
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A German professor invented Junker J4 a metal airplane made of duralumin.
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Mail was then delivered by planes.
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A new generation of engines lets completely improved planes possible.
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Passenger service was introduce across the English Channel by France and Britain.
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U.S. Navy Aviators made the flight from Newfoundland to London across the North Atlantic.
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Charles Lindbergh made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean nonstop.
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The jet engine allowed the jet plane to be invented.
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The singlerotor helicopter was made by the U.S..
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Captain Charles Chuck Yeager flies the Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound.
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The B-52 Bomber was invented.
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The B-2 Bomber was invented.