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the dream of flight
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Chinese sky lanterns
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Kites
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Bartolomeu de Gusão presented the first small paper balloon that flew.
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Montgolifer brothers showed an unmanned hot air balloon in public.
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Montgolifer brothers lounched the first hot sir balloons with passangers inside ( a sheep, a dog and a rooster).
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Montgolifer brothers made the first flight with human passengers.
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First recorded use of propulsion on a flying machine.
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First flight in hydrogen balloon
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First flight across the English channel in hydrogen balloon
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First aeronautical death happens.
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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.
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George Cailey
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Francis Herbert Wenham
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Otto Lilienthal
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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,
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Designing the Wright Glider Kitty Hawk Testing Grounds
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Test flying glider (back to the drawing board)
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Doubts about data, the Wright wind-tunnel. Preliminary test, 200 different model wing shapes
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New glider larger than its prodecessor that had lack of lift and control issues
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Perfecting the control system, they didnt immediately try to build a poweres airplane
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Wright glider, first to have a yaw controil by using a rear rudder
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Wright Flyer: airplane made the longest range flight at the end of 1903
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First motorized flight. Estimated distance about 300 meters in a straight line, with very poor control.
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Dec 17 1903 Wrigth brothers first flight, for a 12 seconds period they were on the air.
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Flyer II built, first powered aircraft they built, similar but powerful.
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First Flyer III Flight, same design and performance but with an airframe of spruc with a wing camber of 1-in-25.
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Wright Brothers Patent Granted, they controlled the glider in all three axes of flight pitch, roll and yaw.
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Sign contract with US army and a French company; no flights in 1906 and 1907 due to their oursuit of fitful negotiations with govermment.
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The first city-to-city flight by Henri Farman in 1908
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Become the first woman to obtain a pilot's license in 1910
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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.
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KARL INGOLD. made a fly of 1699 km before the WW1
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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.
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The first flight was made on the English Channel by the pilot Louis Blériot in 1914
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Flight record before WW1 was 1699 km in February 7, 1914