The evolution of Airplanes

First Airplane

Dec 17, 1903

The Wright Brothers made the first working airplane

First death

Sep 17, 1908

The First recorded death from an airplane crash was Thomas Selfridge.

First far flight

Jul 25, 1909

The first plane to go over the English channel

First military aircraft

Oct 23, 1911

This aircraft was used for scouting and surprising the enemy

first commercial flight

Jan 1, 1914

This was the first-ever official commercial flight where they would fly people over the English channel

First weaponized plane

Apr 1, 1915

This was the first plane that had a gun that could shoot around the ark of the propeller

First plane across the Atlantic

Jun 15, 1919

Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown were the first people to fly a nonstop flight across the Atlantic \

First jet engine/ jet made

Aug 27, 1939

von Ohain was the first person to make a jet engine which led to the jet later in that same year