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Airplane timeline 3 of 3 from 1944 to 2005 at Timeline Help.

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Northrop MX-334 rocket driven airplane introduced.

Douglas XB-43 jet bomber.

The Bell X-1 flies faster than sound.

Boeing B-52 bomber developed.

Kaman K-225 gas-turbine helicopter and the Boeing's B-47 bomber are built.

British BOAC presents the De Havilland Comet, the first of a series in airplane timeline 3. American Richard Whitcomb discovers the area rule for designing aircrafts.

Bell X-1A and Douglas D-558-2 fly Mach 2.

Kaman HTK-1 twin-turbine helicopter presented.

Dwight D Eisenhower from now on uses a helicopter, the Bell H-13J. Canadian pilot Jacqueline Cochran sets the most speed, altitude and distance records ever in the airplane timeline history.

Pan American opens its international commercial service with a Boeing 707-121.

McDonnell XF-4H-1 sets a new altitude record of 98,556 feet.

McDonnell XF-4H-1 sets a new speed recordof 16,063 miles per hour.

Geraldine Mock makes the first female Solo flight around the world.

Lockheed A-12/SR-71 reaches Mach 3.

Boeing 747 presented.

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird sets a transcontinental speed record of Mach 28 or 2,12405 miles per hour.

Lockheed creates the Stealth F-117 fighter.

Boeing 777-200.

Boeing 777.

American and Russian aerospace companies develop the second-generation supersonic jetliner.

Concorde crash in Paris.

Steve Fossett makes a non-stop non-refueled solo flight around the world.

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