Aviation Timeline Latest Update with Certified Solutions

Aviation Timeline Latest Update with Certified Solutions 1000 BCE Kites are invented in China 852 BCE The English King Bladud is apparently killed attempting to fly Leonardo da Vinci designs flying machines 1709 Bartolomeu Laurenco de Gusmao designs a model glide 1783 The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight was created by Montgolfier brothers in Paris, France 1843 George Cayley's biplane design was published 1895 Otto Lilienthal flies biplane gliders 1903 Wright brothers made the first recorded powered, sustained and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air aircraft flying machine 1904 Richard Pearse from New Zealand made his first recorded powered flight of more than a few seconds 1911 George Bolt launched a glider that he had designed and built himself from the Cashmere Hills above Christchurch. In 1911, he took New Zealand's first aerial photographs. In 1916, he began work as an apprentice mechanic at the Walsh brothers' New Zealand Flying School in Auckland. 1921 Bessie Coleman became the first African-American to gain a pilot's license 1927 Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight 1930 British Inventor Frank Whittle invented the jet engine 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly a solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flgiht New Zealander made a record-breaking flights around the world 1939 Germany's Heinkel 178 became the first fully jet-propelled aircraft to fly. 1947 Charles Yeager pilots the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in level flight. 1969 First flights of supersonic transport - Soviet TU-144 and Anglo-French Concorde. 1970 Boeing 747 made the first commercial flight. 1976 Concorde begins its first passenger-carrying service Concorde A turbojet-powered supersonic passenger jet airliner operated until 2003. It had a maximum speed more than twice the speed of sound. Pan Am Introduced its first 747 service on January 22, 1970. Clipper Victor Original name of the second 747 Clipper Young America carried 335 passengers and 20 crew members from New York's JFK Airport to London Heathrow on the first commercial flight of a 747 1979 Bryan Allen pedals the Gossamer Albatross