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History of Aviation

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HISTORY OF AVIATION

1709

300 b.C.

400 b.C.

852

559

1783

PIGEON

Kite

HUmans and kites

Parachute

Hot air balloon

Montgolfier

The Montgolfier brothers have a public demonstration of an unmanned hot air balloon

Archytas of Tarentum created a steam-powered flying pigeon

The Chinese invented the Kite.

There are documented flights of human beings using kites.

Forerunner of modern parachutes

The first hot air balloon flight was thanks to Lourenço de Gusmão

HISTORY OF AVIATION

10/1783

1804

1785

1794

1785

1839

DEAD IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL

Frist Human Flight

ENGLISH CANNEL

FIRST MILITAR USE

SIR GEORGE CAYLEY

7,900 METERS

Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries manage to cross the English Channel in a balloon for the first time.

Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and Jules Romain become the first to die in an aeronautical accident

Used by the French army for the reconnaissance of the Austrian forces in the battle of Fleurus.

Charles Green together with the astronomer Spencer Rush manage to ascend in a balloon up to 7,900 meters of altitude.

The first human flight was on October 15 in Paris

First unmanned flight of a glider

HISTORY OF AVIATION

1883

1852

1848

1870

1856

1885

HEAVIER THAN AIR

AIRSHIP

The ALBATROSS

Hot-AIR Balloons

electric motor

SEELBURG

The Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Bris manages to fly with his glider, the Albatross, a distance of 200 meters at a height of 100 meters.

The Frenchman Gaston Tissander made the first flight powered by electricity, thanks to the adaptation of a Siemens electric motor to an airship.

Karl Wölfert flies in a gasoline-powered airship in Seelburg. The engine was built by Gottlieb Daimler.

World's first flight in a heavier-than-air aircraft

September 24th, 1852First powered flight by Henri Giffard.

September 1st, 1870Passengers in Hot-air balloons

HISTORY OF AVIATION

1914

1899

1889

1911

1904

1919

THE HAWK

WRIGHT BROTHERS

PATENT

COMMERCE

COMMERCIAL FLIGHT

KLM

The Wright brothers apply for a patent for their flying machine in Germany and France.

First commercial transport by plane, a box with electric lamps from Shoreham to Hove in England.

The KLM airline was founded on October 7th, currently being the oldest still operating under its initial name.

Percy Pilcher builds a glider which he calls the Hawk

They begin to experiment with mechanisms to gain control of their aircraft.

Tony Jannus made the first commercial flight in history

HISTORY OF AVIATION

1945

1921

1919

1927

1926

1947

AVIANCA

MEXICANA

BUENOS AIRES AND N.Y.

IBERIA

AOA

pia

It becomes the first Latin American airline to provide international air itinerary services

The Mexicana de Aviación airline is founded in Mexico, being the first mail and passenger transport in Latin America

The company Iberia in Spain is established, thanks to the participation of Spanish financiers and the German company Lufthansa.

The American Overseas Airlines airline was created and operated from 1945 to 1950.

Flight between Buenos Aires and New York, in 37 stages and over 81 days.

The Avianca airline is founded on December 5, the first in the entire American continent.

HISTORY OF AVIATION

1974

1950

1949

1969

1958

1976

HAVILLAND COMET

AOA AND PAW

BOEING 707

BOEING 747

BRITISH AIRWAYS

CONCORDE

The Boeing 707, the first successful passenger jet plane, enters service at the hands of the Pan Am company, making a flight between New York and Paris.

The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a supersonic airliner used to transport passengers.

Created through the merger between BOAC and BEA, it is currently the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom.

The Boeing 747 is presented and is the largest passenger aircraft built until 2005 surpassed by the Airbus A380

American Overseas Airlines merged with Pan American World Airways (founded in 1927).

The DH.106 Comet made its first flight on July 27, 1949, thereby becoming the first commercial jet aircraft.

history of aviation

2000

1991

2003

concorde accident

PAN AM

LAST FLIGHT

The American airline Pan Am is dissolved after having operated for 64 years in which it was the most important international airline in the United States.

One of the Air France Concorde suffered an accident on July 25, 2000

OOctober 24th, 2003 the las flight of the Concorde is carried.