History of Aviation

Leonardo Davinci. He never had a working model or even a model for that matter - but he still designed one.
the wright brothers == While the Wright brother made the first WORKING aircraft, Leonardo Da Vinci designed the first one. It's in his notebooks.

Kitty haw, North Carolina

Nobody 'invented' the first airplane - they were developed after much trial and many errors in the USA, France, Britain and other countries all through the late 1890's. MANY inventors across the world invented and flew short flights in aircraft before the Wright brothers.

Depends on which one. He flew several, but his most famous was a Fokker DR.1 triplane. His first plane he painted red was an Albatross. His plane did not have a nickname in the sense of the striped tomato or the general lee (despite those being cars), but he flew in a unit known as the flying circus.

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Actually it's North Carolina, the motto is on the NC state coin, because the first flight took place in Kitty Hawk, NC.

In 1909, Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel, French coast to English coast.

Wilbur did...alsomore info..--------> A man named Otto Lilienthal inspired the Wright brothers to build their first airplane. He glided on a hill in a big kite-type thing called a hang glider. The brothers really liked this idea and kept thinking about it.When building airplanes, the brothers knew the plane had three requirements to meet. It would need wings to lift it in the air, power to propel it, and a way to control it. The Wrights had the most difficult time figuring out how to control the plane. The plane needed to go up and down, and side to side. Other inventors like Lilienthal and Chanute had previous success with the wings and power. Orville and Wilbur knew that it was very important to be able to control the plane. They knew the pilot needed to keep the plane balanced just like a person riding a bike needed to keep the bike balanced. They thought about how a bird flies and wanted the plane to operate like a flying bird.they had a successful experiment on december 17, 1903 creating an airplane. before the wright brothers, scientists has had numerous attemps to create an airplane and get it to work. these included kites, hot air balloons, air ships, gliders, etc. the first airplane evermade (by the wright brothers) flew only 10 feet off the ground and travled 120 feet and landed 12 seconds after take off.The Wright brothers were the first people to make a motor-powered airplane that could carry one pilot. The brothers flew their first successful plane on December 17, 1903. The airplane could fit one person and that was the pilot. The pilot had to lay down in the airplane. Wilbur flew their longest flight. It was 852 feet and was flown in 59 seconds. the first airplane was made of wood, metal and fabric to strech the wings.

The American Bell XS-1 rocket aircraft, piloted by Captain Charles (Chuck) Yeager on 14 October 1947. He reached Mach 1.015 (1,078 km/h; (670 mph) at a height of 12,800 m (42000 ft) over Lake Muroc, California, USA. To be technically correct, Chuck Yeager set the record in level flight. There were probably many aircraft that broke the sound barrier in a dive---usually a crash dive. But no one recorded their feat.

The first recorded successful manned flight was the flight of the Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon on October 15th 1783.

There are also records of manned flights on kites as early as the 5th century in China.

The answer you are probably looking for would be Orville and Wilbur Wright. They made a very short sucessful flight at Kitty Hawk.

They used spruce for the frame and covered it with muslin. The engine and many other parts were metal.

Lt. Col Jimmy Doolittle, with the "Doolittle raid" in 1942

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Although the first B52s were lost to operational causes during the Vietnam War in 1965; the first loss to a SAM (Surface to Air Missile) occurred on 22 November 1972. The first probable kill (USAF disputes claim, states B52 was downed by a SAM) of a Stratofortress to an enemy jet (MiG21) flown by NVAF MAJ Pham Tuan was on 26 December 1972.

The apparent cause of the explosive fire was ignition of the hydrogen gas used to make the craft lighter than air. There are conspiracy theories that say the ignition was intentionally caused, while most authorities suspect the ignition was caused by static electricity, or by actual lightning.

Her first flight took place at an airfield in Long Beach Calif. On December 28, 1920, she was taken up in an airplane by pilot Frank Hawks.

She started flying lessons a month later on January 3, 1921, at Kinner Field, an airfield near Long Beach.

The first aircraft were made with wood frames, often spruce. The frame was covered with thin cloth, often muslin and was tightened by varnishing it. some small parts and of course the engine, were metal.

The first airplane engine was designed and built by the makers of the first airplane: Wilbur and Orville Wright, with the help of a mechanic called Charlie Taylor. They had written to all the engine manufacturers they knew, but none had been able or willing to produce an engine to the specification required.

Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg.

Better known as Paul von Hindenburg, was born on the 2nd of October 1847 and deid on 2nd of August 1934

Many aircraft were created, flown short distances and crashed during the late 1890's and early 1900's.

-The Wright brothers were by no means the inventors of the first aeroplane -as appears to be popularly thought in American schools.

The Wrights did NOT fly the 'first airplane' .

The Wright brothers were the first to achieve controlled powered flight. Gliders, man-made wings, and balloons were around long before the flight of the Wright Brothers flying machine, the Flyer I, on December 17, 1903, at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk NC.

Leonardo da Vinci tried unsuccessfully to design flying machines during the last part of the 15th century.

Well in truth the Wright Brothers interest started with kites in 1899, and by 1901 they had their first model of the Wright Flyer but it wasn't until two years and two more Flyers later that they achieved the Famous First Flight on December 17, 1903