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sketched out his flying machines in multiple notebooks.
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Laws of motion, gravity, and physics
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Created the Bernoulli's Principle. Speed up, lower pressure. Slow down, higher pressure.
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Invented the hot air balloon
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helped build the airplane motor
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Created and successfully tested the "boy flier" in which a young boy flew Cayley's glider
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Built the wind tunnel
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Created a working rubber band airplane
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made more than 2000 flights with his gliders
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Researched flight and wrote a book, greatly inspiring the Wright Brothers. He also helped make a motor for the Wrights.
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First sustained flight
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The first controlled, sustained, flight.
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Invented many different military planes. Also one of the first controlled flights.
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First airplane fatality
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Flew from New York to California
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A four year war in which fighting usually took place in Europe
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A war in which Hitler invaded France and tried to take over the world.
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Broke the sound barrier
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A war between North and South Korea
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North Vietnam attacked the US backed South Vietnam
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Kuwait is invaded by Saddam Hussein's forces and are forced back by UN
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Passenger jets going Mach 2.2, solar powered flight, flying cars, ect. What's next?