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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. The texts in the diagram are clickable links to articles.
The history of aviation spans over two millennia, from the earliest innovations like kites and attempts at tower jumping to supersonic and hypersonic flight in powered, heavier-than-air jet aircraft. Kite flying in China, dating back several hundred years BC, is considered the earliest example of man-made flight. [ 1 ]
1935 – First flight of the DC-3, one of the most significant transport aircraft in the history of aviation. [41] Hermann Kemper built a working linear induction motor. [42] 1939 - 20 June - First rocket powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 176, takes flight. 1939 – 27 August - First jet engine aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, takes flight.
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It is the first battle in history to be affected by aerial observation. [13] 1795. October 29, Observation balloons used in Battle of Mainz. 1797. October 22, André-Jacques Garnerin jumps from a balloon from 975 meters (3,199 feet) over Parc Monceau in Paris in a 7-meter (23-foot)-) diameter parachute made of white canvas with a basket ...
Although only a design, (scale models were built in 1843 [74] or 1848 [75] and flew 10 or 130 feet) it was the first in history for a propeller-driven fixed-wing aircraft. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] [ 76 ] Henson and his collaborator John Stringfellow even dreamed of the first Aerial Transit Company .
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Vue du Pont de Sèvres, painted in 1908 by Henri Rousseau. 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.