Unit 3 - Golden Age (1918-1939)

By nicolas123bilbao

  • GROUP1: First commercial Flight ( San Petersburg-Tampa)

    Made by the seaplane Benoist XIV, the flight lasted 23 minutes

  • GROUP1: British bomber Vickers VIMY converted into passenger airplane

    After conversion, this type of aircraft continued to be used as a passenger airplane and as a militar airplane

  • GROUP1: First regular airmail, between Washington and New York.

  • GROUP 4. The British John William Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, made the first transatlantic cruise on a plane. They left from Nova Scotia (Canada), to Clifden (Ireland). The flight traveled 3138 km, and lasted approximately 12 hours.

  • GROUP1: First flight of the Dutch airline KLM.

    KLM is considered the oldest airline in the world

  • GROUP3: Jean Casale flew at 9520m using a Nieuport NiD.29

  • GROUP3: First speed record after WWI, Joseph Sadi-Lecointe flew at 275 km/h in France using a Nieuport-Delage NiD 29V

  • GROUP3: Major Rudolf Schroeder flew at 10093 m using a LUSAC-11

  • GROUP3: Jean Casale flew at 283 km/h in France using a Spad-Herbemont 20 bis

  • GROUP3: Bernard de Romanet flew at 292 km/h in France using a Spad-Herbemont 20 bis

  • GROUP3: Bernard de Romanet flew at 309 km/h using a Spad S.XX

  • GROUP3: Joseph Sadi-Lecointe flew at 330 km/h in France using a Nieuport-Delage Sesquiplan

  • GROUP1: First time a plane was used for a business trip.

    By Colombian President Pedro Ospina.

  • GROUP2: Lawrence Sperry drops landing wheels from his plane

    Lawrence Sperry drops landing wheels from his plane in flight and successfully lands with a skid device in experiments carried out in Farmingdale, New York.

  • GROUP3: Billy Mitchell flew at 358 km/h in US using a Curtiss R

  • GROUP3: 1st Lt. Russell L. Maughan flew at 380 km/h in US using a Curtiss R-6

  • GROUP2: Radio-controlled airplane flew without a pilot

    A radio-controlled airplane flew without a pilot at the E'tampes Aerodrome in France.

  • GROUP3: Joseph Sadi-Lecointe flew at 11145m using a Nieuport NiD.40R

  • GROUP3: Lt. Alford J. Williams flew at 429 km/h in US using a Curtiss R2C-1

  • GROUP2: Invention Huff-Daland Crop Dusting airplane.

    Invention Huff-Daland Crop Dusting airplane.

  • GROUP2: World's first liquid propellant rocket

    Robert Goddard launches the World's first liquid propellant rocket in an orchard. The rocket climbed 41 feet in two-and-a-half-seconds and landed 184 feet away.

  • GROUP2: first wind tunnel large enough to test a full-size airplane.

    The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, at its Langley Field, Virginia, Laboratories, builds the first wind tunnel large enough to test a full-size airplane.

  • GROUP2: Air-cooled engines replaced water-cooled engine

    Air-cooled engines replaced water-cooled engines, which reduced weight and made bigger and faster planes possible.

  • GROUP 4. Lockheed Vega was a monoplane that became famous for being used by several pilots to break different brands, attracted by its resistance and long-range characteristics (Amelia Earhart)

  • GROUP 4. The first flight of Lockheed Vega aircraft

  • GROUP3: Lt. Mario de Bernardi flew at 479 km/h in Italy using a Macchi M.52 seaplane

  • GROUP 4. The first female to cross atlantic solo with an aircraft

  • GROUP2: First automatic pilot used on an airliner

    William Green developed the first automatic pilot used on an airliner

  • GROUP3: George H Stainforth flew at 541 km/h in UK using a Gloster VI seaplane

  • GROUP1: Warsaw Convention

    First global agreement between governments on civil aviation

  • GROUP2: sound-locator acoustic system was developed

    A sound-locator acoustic system for detection of aircraft in flight was developed.

  • GROUP3: Lt.Apollo Soucek, USN flew at 13158m using a Wright Apache

  • GROUP2: patente of the first jet engine.

    Britain's' Frank Whittle designed and patented the first jet engine.

  • GROUP3: George H Stainforth flew at 655 km/h in UK using a Supermarine S.6B seaplane

  • GROUP2: first Goddard rocket with gyroscopically controlled vanes

    The first Goddard rocket with gyroscopically controlled vanes, for automatically stabilized flight, was fired.

  • GROUP3: Cyril Uwins flew at 13404m using a VIckers Vespa

  • GROUP1: Boeing 247

    First modern passenger plane

  • GROUP4. Boeing 247 was developed

  • GROUP 4. The Boeing Model 247 was one of the first modern airliners. His first flight was on February 8, 1933, and entered service that same year.

  • GROUP2: largest aircraft build by Maksim Gorki before ww2

    largest aircraft build by Maksim Gorki before ww2

  • GROUP2: first automatic direction-finder

    American Airlines developed and tested the first automatic direction-finder for airplanes.

  • GROUP3: Francesco Agello flew at 709 km/h in Italy using a Macchi M.C.72 seaplane (current piston-engined seaplane speed record)

  • GROUP1: First flight that crossed the Pacific Ocean.

    Between San Francisco and Manila. The trip took almost a week.

  • GROUP3: Howard Hughes flew at 567 mk/h in US using a Hughes H-1 Racer landplane

  • GROUP2: device for elimination of propeller ice

    The U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce, in cooperation with the industry, develops a device for elimination of propeller ice.

  • GROUP 4. The Douglas DC-3 is an aircraft that revolutionized passenger transport in the 30s and 40s of the 20th century. It was developed by a group of engineers, headed by Arthur E. Raymond, and flew for the first time in 1935

  • GROUP 4. Douglas DC-3 was introduced

  • GROUP1: Douglas DC-3

    This airplane is considered as one of the most revolutionary aircraft of all time and the first that was manufactured in series and and achieved profitability.

  • GROUP3: Georges détré flew at 14843m using a Potez 506 (highest with no pressure suit)

  • GROUP 4. Amelia Earhart disappeared in the Pacific Ocean, in her attempt to become the first woman to go around the world in an airplane, along with her partner Fred Noonan.

  • GROUP2: first pressurized cabin plane

    Lockheed Aircraft Corporation built the first pressurized cabin plane

  • GROUP3: Dr. Hermann Wurster flew at 610 km/h in Germany using a Bf 109 V13 landplane

  • GROUP1: The Lufthansa Focke Wulf - first non-stop line flight across the Atlantic

    This was the first non-stop line flight across the Atlantic between Berlin and New York. It took 24 hours to reach its destination.

  • GROUP3: Fritz Wendel flew at 755 km/h in Germany using a Me 209 V1(Piston engine record until 1969)

  • GROUP3: M.J.Adam flew at 16440m using a Bristol Type 138

  • GROUP1: Admirals Club (first VIP lounge at an airport)

    This club was the first of the airline VIP clubs, located in LaGuardia airport, New York.

  • GROUP2: First jet-powered flight.

    The Heinkel He 178 makes the first jet-powered flight.