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Period: Jan 3, 1496 to 1496
The first aroplanes desings
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They built on the works of George Cayley dating from 1799
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between also studied heavier-than-air flight
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Lilienthal's flight attempts in 1891 are seen as the beginning of human flight
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The Wright brothers invented and flew the first airplane in 1903
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The first jet aircraft was the German Heinkel in 1939.
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The first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, was introduced in 1952.