События
1000 BCE
Kites are invented in China.1709
Model glider design1783
The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight1843
George Cayley’s biplane design is published.1895
Otto Lilienthal flies biplane gliders.1903
Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first recorded powered, sustained and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine.1904
First powered flight in New Zealand1906
First powered flight in Europe1911
New Zealander launches glider1930
British inventor Frank Whittle invents the jet engine.1939
First jet-propelled aircraft1947
First aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in level flight.1970
Boeing 747 makes the first commercial flight.2019
world’s first fully-electric aircraft for commercial flight completed a testПериоды
1485–1500
da Vinci designs planes
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