Technology Over Time Flight

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  • First man to fly
    Mar 16, 1010

    First man to fly

    Oliver of Malmesbury, a Benedictine monk, was the first man to fly for some distance with the aid of wings. He jumped from Malmesbury Abbey and alighted 125 paces before falling and breaking his legs
  • Kites
    Mar 16, 1300

    Kites

    Marco Polo witnessed kites carrying humans in China
  • Mar 16, 1488

    Vinci's glider

    In Italy, Leonardo de Vinci made the first design of flying machines, using bird wings for models
  • Safe landing

    Safe landing

    Hezarfen Celebi leapt from a tower at Galata and flew some distance before landing safely in the market place of Scutari.

  • Model hot air balloon

    Father Bartolomeu de Gusmao demonstrated a model hot air balloon to King John V
  • The balloon of the Montgolfier brothers

    The balloon of the Montgolfier brothers

    The balloon of the Montgolfier brothers becomes the first unmanned balloon flight. The balloon was propelled by burning a pile of moist wool and old shoes.
  • World's first successful model glider.

    World's first successful model glider.

    Sir George Cayley builds and flies the world's first successful model glider.
  • Moon photo

    Moon photo

    The first photograph is taken of the Moon

  • First airship

    A steam engine powers the first airship flown by Henri Giffard

  • First Zeppelin

    The first flight of the Zeppelin, a "rigid" airship that was the first aircraft to use large metal structures.

  • Last Wright flight

    Wilbur Wright makes his last flight as a pilot in the United States. He flew at Simm's Station in Dayton, Ohio.

  • first parachute

    A. Leo Stevens designs the "life-pack" parachute

  • Mail call!

    First transcontinental mail service arrives in New York from San Francisco. The trip takes 33 hours and 20 minutes - nearly three days faster than rail service.

  • Help from friends

    The Army and Navy agree to stand aside to give France and Britain virtually unhindered access to the latest models of American warplanes, releasing to the Allies over 600 planes now under construction.
  • First Manmade object in space V2 or A4 rocket

    First Manmade object in space V2 or A4 rocket

    The V-2 rocket (A Nazi weapon) became the first artificial object to cross the boundary of space with the vertical launch of V-177 on 3rd October 1942 Its maximum speed was :5,760 km/h (3,580 mph)

  • US Radation test

    First space research flight (cosmic radiation experiments) from a captured
  • Pictures of Earth from V2

    Pictures of Earth from V2

    First pictures of Earth from taken by US from captured V2 105 km (65 mi)

  • First animals

    Were fruit flies put in space using the V2
  • First ICBM

    First ICBM

    R-7 Semyorka/SS-6 Sapwood Russian

  • First artificial satellite

    Or a manmade satellite. The moon is a natural satellite.
    First signals from space Sputnik 1
  • First animal in orbit

    First animal in orbit

    First animal in orbit, the dog Laika a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. Laika, a stray dog from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on November 3, 1957.

  • Confirmed the existence of the Van Allen belts

    Earths magnetic field. Makes a compass point North

  • First firing of a rocket in space

    At 00:56:20 UTC on 3 January, at a distance of 119,500 kilometres (74,300 mi) from Earth,[5] 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of sodium gas was released by the spacecraft, forming a cloud behind it to serve as an artificial comet. This glowing orange trail of gas, visible over the Indian Ocean with the brightness of a sixth-magnitude star for a few minutes, was photographed by Mstislav Gnevyshev at the Mountain Station of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR near Kislovods
  • First woman in space

    First woman in space

    Valentina Tereshkova was was a Russian Cosmonaut becoming the first woman in space
  • First soft landing on another world (the Moon) First photos from another world

    First soft landing on another world (the Moon) First photos from another world

    The U.S.S.R were the first on the moon. Using luna 9
  • First impact into another planet (Venus)

    First impact into another planet (Venus)

    Another achievement made by the Soviets using Venera 3

  • First automated (crewless) docking

    First automated (crewless) docking by the U.S.S.R
  • Tu-144

    Tu-144

    The Tu-144, the first Soviet Super Sonic Transport, flew.
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11

    •July 16-24, 1969 - Apollo 11: First human lunar landing. At 4:18 p.m. EST on July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin landed on the lunar surface while command module pilot Michael Collins orbited overhead. "That's one small step for man - one giant leap for mankind."

  • Double Eagle

    Double Eagle V: First balloon flight over the Pacific Ocean.

  • First flight

    STS-6, the first flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
  • Challenger Disaster

    Challenger Disaster

    STS-51L, Challenger accident, in which seven astronauts were killed.
  • Malaysian Jet

    Malaysian Jet

    Missing Malaysian Jet Remains “Agonizing Mystery” Two Years After Disappearance - On Tuesday, 8 March 2016, Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Najib Razak, says that his government remains dedicated to solving the “agonizing mystery” of MH370, as the country marks the second anniversary of the aircraft’s disappearance. The search efforts to find the jet, covering 120,000 square kilometers of the southern Indian Ocean, are slated to be complete in June. In a distributed email, Najib says