Unit 1 - Early Aviation (1783-1914)

By nicolas123bilbao
  • 1000 BCE

    Group1: Legend of Icarus

    the dream of flight
  • 200

    Group2: First hot air balloons

    Chinese sky lanterns
  • 400

    Group1: First aircraft created by man

    Kites
  • 1490

    Group1: First serious flight machine designs

    Leonardo da Vinci

  • Group2: Bartolomeu de Gusão

    Bartolomeu de Gusão presented the first small paper balloon that flew.

  • Group2: Montgolifer brothers

    Montgolifer brothers showed an unmanned hot air balloon in public.

  • Group2: First hot air balloons with passengers inside

    Montgolifer brothers lounched the first hot sir balloons with passangers inside ( a sheep, a dog and a rooster).

  • Group2: First flight with human passengers

    Montgolifer brothers made the first flight with human passengers.

  • Group2: First recorded use of propulsion on a flying machine.

    First recorded use of propulsion on a flying machine.

  • Group2: Hydrogen balloon

    First flight in hydrogen balloon

  • Group2: First flight across the English channel in hydrogen balloon

    First flight across the English channel in hydrogen balloon

  • Group2: First aeronautical death

    First aeronautical death happens.

  • Group2: First balloon in America

  • Group4: DIEGO MARIN AGUILERA

    May 15, 1793, accompanied by his confidant Joaquín Barbero and a sister of the latter, put the large feather plane on the highest rock of the castle, and from there he undertook his flight.

  • Group1: Principles and forces of flight

    George Cailey

  • Group2: First long distance balloon flight

  • Group1: First wind tunnel

    Francis Herbert Wenham

  • Group1: First flight with a glider

    Otto Lilienthal

  • Group3: Chanute ­Herring glider

    July 1899 combined their wing­warping control concept and the structural design of the Chanute ­Herring glider in their first aircraft, a biplane kite with a 5­foot wingspan,

  • Group3: Glider design

    Designing the Wright Glider Kitty Hawk Testing Grounds

  • Group3: Test flying glider

    Test flying glider (back to the drawing board)

  • Group3: Wind Tunnel

    Doubts about data, the Wright wind-tunnel. Preliminary test, 200 different model wing shapes

  • Group3: New glider

    New glider larger than its prodecessor that had lack of lift and control issues

  • Group3: Perfection

    Perfecting the control system, they didnt immediately try to build a poweres airplane

  • Group3: Wright glider

    Wright glider, first to have a yaw controil by using a rear rudder

  • Group4: Wright flyer longest range flight.

    Wright Flyer: airplane made the longest range flight at the end of 1903

  • Group4: RICHARD PEARSE

    First motorized flight. Estimated distance about 300 meters in a straight line, with very poor control.

  • Group3: Wright brothers

    Dec 17 1903 Wrigth brothers first flight, for a 12 seconds period they were on the air.

  • Group3: Flyer II

    Flyer II built, first powered aircraft they built, similar but powerful.

  • Group3: Flyier III

    First Flyer III Flight, same design and performance but with an airframe of spruc with a wing camber of 1-in-25.

  • Group3: Patent Granted

    Wright Brothers Patent Granted, they controlled the glider in all three axes of flight pitch, roll and yaw.

  • Group3: US Army and a French Company

    Sign contract with US army and a French company; no flights in 1906 and 1907 due to their oursuit of fitful negotiations with govermment.

  • Group4: Henri Farman

    The first city-to-city flight by Henri Farman in 1908

  • Group4: Baroness Raymonde de la Roche

    Become the first woman to obtain a pilot's license in 1910

  • Group4: CALBRAITH PERRY RODGERS

    Editor William Randolph Hearst offered the Hearst prize, US $ 50,000, to the first aviator that flies from coast to coast, in any direction, in less than 30 days from start to finish.

  • Group4: KARL INGOLD

    KARL INGOLD. made a fly of 1699 km before the WW1

  • Group4: Fastest Aircraft (new record)

    The SE4 flew for the first time in June 1914, demonstrating as good performance as expected, with a top speed of 135 mph (217 km / h), which made it the fastest aircraft in the world.

  • Group4: Louis Blériot

    The first flight was made on the English Channel by the pilot Louis Blériot in 1914

  • Group4: Distance record before World War I

    Flight record before WW1 was 1699 km in February 7, 1914