History of flight

1900 – 1925

1900 02/07 Graf Zeppelin takes off in his first airship.

1903 17/12 Wright brothers first flight.

1907 13/11 Poul Cornu completes the first free flight in a helicopter.

1909 25/07 Louis Blériot in the Blériot XI, becomes the first to cross the english channel.

1918 21/04 Manfred Von Richthofen (the Red Baron) is killed in battle in his red Fokker Dr.1.

1926 – 1950

1927 20/05 – 21/05 Charles Lindenberg becomes the first who crosses the Atlantic ocean flying solo in his “Spirit of St.Louis”.

1935 28/03 PBY Catalina first flight.

1935 28/05 Me-109 first flight.

1935 28/07 B-17 Flying Fortress first flight.

1935 17/12 DC-3 Dakota first flight.

1936 05/03 Supermarine Spitfire first flight.

1937 06/05 The airship LZ-129 Hindenburg crashes and burn in Lakenhurst, New Jersey.

1939 27/08 The worlds first jetplane: Heinkel He 178.

1940 13/05 First successfull helicopter, Igor Sikorskys VS-300.

1940 26/10 North American P-51 Mustang first flight.

1947 14/10 Charles Yeager breaks the soundbarrier.

1951 – 1975

1952 15/04 Boeing B-52 Stratofortress first flight.

1953 01/08 U-2 first flight.

1954 28/02 Lockheed F-104 Starfighter first flight.

1954 23/08 C-130 Hercules first flight.

1955 25/10 Saab 35 Draken first flight.

1956 09/01 MIG-21 Fishbed first flight.

1957 04/10 Sputnik.

1958 27/05 F-4 Phantom first flight.

1959 08/06 X-15 first flight.

1960 07/05 Gary Powers is shot down in his U-2 over the Sovietunion.

1960 21/10 P.1127 Harrier first flight.

1961 12/04 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space.

1961 16/08 BellUH-1 Iroquois first flight.

1964 21/12 General Dynamics F-111A first flight.

1964 22/12 SR-71 Blackbird first flight.

1967 05 Bell AH-1 Huey Cobra first flight.

1969 09/02 Boeing 747 (Jumbojet) first flight.

1969 02/03 Concorde first flight.

1969 21/07 Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon.

1969 19/11 Mi-24 Hind first flight.

1974 20/01 F-16 Fighting Falcon first flight.

1976 – 2000

1981 12/04 First launch of spaceshuttle Columbia.

1981 15/06 F-117 Nighthawk first flight.

1989 17/07 B-2A Spirit first flight.

1994 27/03 Eurofighter 2000 Typhoon first flight.

2000 16/12 X-35 Joint Strike fighter first flight.

2000 –

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