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The first kites ever are invented in China.
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Apparently, the English King, Bladud, is killed when he attempted to fly.
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Leonardo da Vinci designs flying machines (early planes) Robert Hooke figured out that human flight would require some form of artificial propulsion, which propelled the idea of manned flight.
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The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight was on 21 November 1783 in Paris, France in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers.
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George Cayley’s biplane design is published and becomes famous worldwide.
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The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, make the first recorded powered, sustained and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine.
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A famous, British inventor, Frank Whittle, invents the jet engine.
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Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly a solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight after Lindbergh.
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Jean Batten, a New Zealander, breaks a flight record for making flights around the world.
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The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg (a zeppelin) caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst.
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The Douglas DC-8 (broke the sound barrier) and the Boeing 707 have been used by commercial carriers for three years. In 1947, Chuck Yeager was the first person to ever go supersonic.
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The International Space Station (ISS) is a multi-nation construction project that is the largest single structure humans ever put into space. As the ISS orbits the Earth it is essentially in a state of free fall, counteracting the Earth's gravity and providing an ideal platform for science in space.
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People in flight history. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/305-people-in-flight-history
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History of Flight. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/UEET/StudentSite/historyofflight.html
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Boyne, W. J., Bilstein, R. E., & Crouch, T. D. (2018, December 3). History of flight. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/technology/history-of-flight
