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Time line of airplanes

By clairejarrell

  • First Flight of an airplane

    First Flight of an airplane
    Willbur and Oriville Wright complete the first substanineable flight in North Carolina

  • First Auto Pilot Plane

    First Auto Pilot Plane
    Planes could now fly themselves, but only in a straight line

  • First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic

    First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic
    Charles Lindburgh flew non stop from New York to Paris.

  • First Modern Commerical Airliner

    First Modern Commerical Airliner
    The first modern commerical airliner is intruduced flying people with no experiance flying.

  • Sound Barrier Broken

    Sound Barrier Broken
    Chuck Yager became the fastes man alive after breaking the sound barrier on October 14, over the town of Victorville, California

  • First small jet aircraft to enter mass production

    First small jet aircraft to enter mass production
    The prototype Learjet 23 makes its first flight on October 7. Powered by two GE CJ610 turbojet engines, it is 43 feet long, with a wingspan of 35.5 feet, and can carry seven passengers (including two pilots) in a fully pressurized cabin. It becomes the first small jet aircraft to enter mass production, with more than 100 sold by the end of 1965.

  • The Worlds Worst Aviation Disaster

    The Worlds Worst Aviation Disaster
    at Los Rodeos airport, Tenerife, when a KLM Boeing 747 making its take-off run collides with a Pan American 747 still clearing the runway. All 234 passengers and the 14 crew members of the KLM aircraft, and 317 passengers and nine members of the cabin crew aboard the Pan Am aircraft, are killed. Nine of the 70 survivors from the Pan Am aircraft later die from their injuries.

  • Voyager circumnavigates the globe (26,000 miles) nonstop in 9 days

    Voyager circumnavigates the globe (26,000 miles) nonstop in 9 days
    Using a carbon-composite material, aircraft designer Burt Rutan crafts Voyager for flying around the world nonstop on a single load of fuel. Voyager has two centerline engines, one fore and one aft, and weighs less than 2,000 pounds (fuel for the flight adds another 5,000 pounds). It is piloted by Jeana Yeager (no relation to test pilot Chuck Yeager) and Burt’s brother Dick Rutan, who circumnavigate the globe (26,000 miles) nonstop in 9 days.

  • The First Double Decker Plane

    The First Double Decker Plane
    The Airbus 350 is a double decker plane. It is the largest plane built and had enough seats for 555 people.

  • F-35C Lands On Aircraft Carrier for First Time

    F-35C Lands On Aircraft Carrier for First Time
    Lockheed Martin F-35C successfully landed on the USS Nimitz on Monday, the first time the jet has ever landed on an aircraft carrier using a tailhook system.