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The Start
The first balloon flight with passengers (a sheep, a duck and a rooster) took off on Sept. 19, 1783. In 1783, two brothers demonstrated their invention, the hot air balloon, before a crowd of dignitaries in Annonay, France.
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The Wright Brothers
On December 17, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful flight in a self propelled airplane.
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1st All Metal Monoplane- German Inventor
Hugo Junkers and His J-1 Blechesel “Sheet Metal Donkey” monoplane was the first successful all-metal airplane.
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Harriet Quimby
She became the first U.S. woman to earn a pilot certificate from the France-based Federation Aeronautique Internationale. She was also the first woman to fly at night. In 1912, The first woman to pilot her own aircraft across the English Channel. -
First electro-mechanical flight simulator
Edwin A. Link introduces the Link Trainer, the first electro-mechanical flight simulator. It allows the cockpit to pitch, roll, and yaw, these ground-based pilot trainers have closed hoods that force a pilot to rely on instruments. The U.S. used this to train pilots in WWII.
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Hindenburg disaster
The airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, bursts into flames upon touching its mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers and crew members.
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First Practical American Jet
The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star was the first jet fighter used operationally by the United States Army Air Forces. The first American Jet was produced that could fly for a sustained amount of time.
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Sound barrier broken
U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager became the fastest man alive when he pilots the Bell X-1 faster than sound for the first time on October 14 over the town of Victorville, California.
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The first supersonic aircraft is created
Grumman F-11 becomes the Navy's first supersonic aircraft. https://www.avgeekery.com/ahead-of-its-time-and-the-only-jet-fighter-to-shoot-itself-down/ -
First test flight of republic f-105.
First test flight of Republic F-105. it conducted the majority of strike bombing missions during the early years of the Vietnam War.
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Yuri Gagarin
Yuri was the first person to fly into space. The flight lasted 108 minutes as he circled the Earth for a little more than one orbit. https://www.space.com/16159-first-man-in-space.html -
Boeing 747
The first wide-body airplane produced, it was the first plane dubbed a "Jumbo Jet". It was one of the most successful aircraft ever produced.
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Air Force terminates contract for the T-46
The Air Force terminates the contract for the new Fairchild Reublic T-46. Soon after, Fairchild announces the closing of the former Republic plant in Farmingdale.
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1st man to land on the moon
In 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin where the first people to set foot on the moon. This was important because we beat the Soviet Union in the Space Race to the Moon.
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219 More Candidate Planets
NASA announces that its Kepler Space Telescope mission has discovered 219 more candidate planets in the Cygnus constellation, including 10 near-Earth-size planet candidates in the so-called habitable zone around their stars.
https://www.aiaa.org/about/History-and-Heritage/History-Timeline
