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This is a timeline of aviation history, and a list of more detailed aviation timelines. The texts in the diagram are clickable links to articles. Timeline Timeline of ...
History of aviation. The Wright Military Flyer aboard a wagon in 1908. French reconnaissance balloon L'Intrépide of 1796, the oldest existing flying device, in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna. Leonardo da Vinci 's ornithopter design. The history of aviation extends for more than 2000 years, from the earliest forms of aviation such as ...
April. April 1 - Captain Ferdinand Ferber makes a failed attempt to fly an Archdeacon glider at Berck sur Mer, Picardy. April 3 - Gabriel Voisin successfully flies a modified Archdeacon glider at Berck sur Mer, Picardy. Voisin added a canard to the design. His longest flight on this day was 25 seconds.
Propeller. Patented a design for a steam-powered “flying machine” (1889, and refined in 1891); [131] successful track-tethered test of a steam-engine powered biplane (Jul 1894); [132] designed and constructed a biplane that never flew (1910) [133] John Alexander Douglas McCurdy. 2 Aug 1886. 25 Jun 1961.
18 July – Etienne Gaspar Robertson and his copilot Lhoest ascend from Hamburg, Germany, to an altitude of around 7,300 m (24,000 ft) in a balloon. [4] 3–4 October – André-Jacques Garnerin covers a distance of 395 km (245 mi) from Paris to Clausen, Germany. 7–8 October – Francesco Zambeccari and Pasquale Andreoli make a balloon flight ...
Aviation in the pioneer era. The pioneer era of aviation was the period of aviation history between the first successful powered flight, generally accepted to have been made by the Wright Brothers on 17 December 1903, and the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914. Once the principles of powered controlled flight had been established ...
1783: First manned voyage at Paris. 1783: First gas balloon flight. 1783: Sebastian Lenormand performs a parachute jump. 1785: First crossing of the Channel. 1794: First use in battle. 1797: First high-altitude parachute jump from a balloon. Pierre Testu-Brissy on Air Horse One (c.1798) 1782.
Pioneer era 1853–1914. Otto Lilienthal in mid-flight, c. 1895. First manned glider flight: was made by an unnamed boy in an uncontrolled glider launched by George Cayley in 1853. [36][37] First confirmed manned powered flight: was made by Clément Ader in an uncontrolled monoplane of his own design, in 1890.