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1783
Hot air balloon
The Montgolfier
brothers invent
the hot air balloon.
1804
Sir George
Cayley
He applies the concept
of curved wings with a
distinct shape in their
upper and lower parts
for the first time, and
makes the first flight of
an unmanned glider.
1890
Éole
Clément Ader flew 50
metres. Bat-like plane
and steam engine.
Many did not consider
it a flight as such.
1900
LZ-1
Maiden flight of an
airship by Ferdinand
von Zeppelin. It flew
5 passengers for 18
minutes.
1903
Wright Flyer I
Orville and Wilbur
Wright’s The Flyer I
is recognised as the
first sustained flight
in a heavier-than-air
aircraft. It was a flight
of 12 seconds over a
distance of 260 metres.
1906
14-bis
Alberto Santos Dumont
makes the first flight of
a heavier-than-air craft
in Europe.
Th
1
1910 1965
The Aéro-Club de Boeing 707
France issues the first
The first
airplane pilot licenses.
circumnavigation of the
world, flying over both
1914 1933 1955 poles in a Boeing 707.
1923 1976 1986 1994 2013
Lawrence Sperry Boeing 247 Lockheed T33
2004
He flies for the first
Autogiro Lockheed Rutan Voyager Boeing 777-200 SpaceShip One Airbus A350-800
Cierva C.8 It features innovations Experiments with zero- SR-71
time with an autopilot The first aircraft capable It is the first aircraft First flight of Airbus’s
for the first time, such gravity flights begin. First manned space
developed by the Juan de la Cierva Blackbird of flying around the designed entirely vehicle with private
most modern and
as: a monocoque
Sperry Corporation. invented the autogiro, fuselage; retractable 1947 Designed for long- world nonstop without by computer. It also capital. Reached
environmentally-friendly
He also invented the precursor of the range strategic refuelling. incorporates a control aeroplane and the first
landing gear; and Bell X-1 altitudes of over 100km.
to have both fuselage
artificial horizon, which helicopter. It flew reconnaissance, can system called fly-by-wire.
incipient autopilot. First manned
is still in use. between London travel at three times The 777-200LR model and wing structures
It is considered the supersonic flight. The 1968
and Paris. reaches a flight range of made with composite
prototype for modern aircraft was launched Tupolev Tu-144
the speed of sound.
Upon landing it must 17,370 km. Fiber optic materials, which
aircraft. from a B29 bomber in make up 53% in total.
It becomes the first remain away from the connections used for
· Flying personnel: 3 flight. the first time in avionics Achieves an additional
supersonic passenger hangar as it reaches
· Passangers: 10 equipment. fuel reduction of 8%.
aircraft. 300ºC. The world’s
· Speed: 304 km/h
· Flying personnel: 3 (+4) fastest aircraft, reaching · Flying personnel: 2 (+10) · Flying personnel: 2 (+12)
· Endurance: 1,200 km 1988 2005
· Passengers: 140 3,530km/h · Passengers: 440 · Passengers: 270-440
· Speed: 2.500 km/h Antonov · Speed: 905 km/h Airbus A380-700 · Velocidad: 903 km/h
1914 1927 1935
1957 · Endurance: 6,500 km An225 Mriya · Endurance: 9,700 km · Endurance: 15,700 km
Benoist XIV Douglas DC-3 The largest commercial
Pan-Am Boeing 707-120 The world's largest aircraft and the first jet
It becomes the model Pan American World The first successful plane in service. There
It becomes the first with two decks along its
used by the first regular Airways (Pan-Am) is commercial airplane, is only a cargo version.
commercially successful entire fuselage.
passenger airline: founded. with an unprecedented Its 6 engines allow it to
jet, selling more than · Flying personnel: 2 (+18)
St. Petersburg-Tampa level of comfort. Many carry up to 189,000 kg
1,000 aircraft. It was · Passengers: 481
Airboat. of them are still flying in a single flight.
the first aircraft with · Speed: 895 km/h
· Flying personnel: 1 even today.
a reactor motor with · Flying personnel: 6 · Endurance: 16,200 km
· Passengers: 1 · Flying personnel: 3 (+2) 1949 comercial success, · Speed: 800 km/h 2014
1969
· Speed: 103 km/h · Passengers: 21 and the first of the · Endurance: 15,400 km
· Endurance: 200 km · Speed: 320 km/h
De Havilland Boeing 747-100 Airbus E-Fan
Boeing 7X7 series.
· Endurance: 3,420 km DH-106 Comet 1 The Jumbo jet was the Electric aeroplane
The first commercial jet
· Flying personnel: 3 (+4) 1977 prototype.
first commercial aircraft
· Passengers: 110-189
aircraft.
· Speed: 917 km/h
that featured an upper Space Shuttle · Flying personnel: 1-2
· Flying personnel: 4 (+2) floor, and was the largest First flight of Enterprise · Passengers: 0-1
· Endurance: 4,300 km
· Passengers: 36-44 aircraft for three decades. space vehicle. Orbital · Speed: 160 km/h
· Speed: 725 km/h · Flying personnel: 3 (+14) flights began in the 80s · Endurance: 150 km
· Endurance: 2,400 km · Passengers: 480-550 with Colombia.
1916 1927
· Speed: 893 km/h
Junkers J1 Spirit of St. Louis
More than 120 years of
1938 · Endurance: 9,800 km
First nonstop
fact
The first flight of a Boeing 307
transatlantic flight made rious 2009

aeronautical history
revolutionary metal plane.
by Charles Lindbergh The first four-engine A cu
Boeing 787-8
aboard the Spirit of plane for commercial
Dreamliner
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St. Louis. It flew 5,800 flights with cabin
kilometres across pressurisation. First flight of Boeing’s 2015-2016
1891 the Atlantic Ocean, most modern and
· Flying personnel: 3 (+2)
environmentally-
Solar Impulse
between New York · Passengers: 33 In the year 875 Abbas Ibn Firnas
Otto Lilienthal and Paris. · Speed: 370 km/h
1969 friendly aeroplane. First round the world
He becomes the first becomes the first man in history Concorde Reduced average fuel flight by a plane
· Endurance: 3,950 km
1919 consumption by 20% powered exclusively
person to perform to perform a flight in a glider, Supersonic aircraft for
1939 for aircraft in its class by solar energy.
controlled flights in KLM y Avianca made with timber and textile. commercial passenger
a glider; some up to · Flying personnel: 2 (+12)
KLM, the oldest airline He-178 flights.
300 metres. He made He did it from a hill in the Serranía · Passengers: 242-381
in the world is created. Flight of the first jet · Flight personnel: 3 (+4)
nearly 2,000 flights. · Speed: 902 km/h
And Avianca, the oldest aircraft in history, with de Córdoba (Spain) · Passengers: 92-120 · Endurance: 13,600 km
airline in the Americas, engine developed by · Speed: 2.158 km/h
is founded. Hans von Ohain. · Endurance: 7.220 km

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