Airplane Timeline - Timeline Help

Airplane timeline part one of three from 1267 to 1910 at Timeline Help. The history of airplanes goes back to the 13th century. Like every boy, I'm fascinated by the beauty and speed of the wings and rotors of planes, balloons, and helicopters. Therefore, I made this airplane timeline.

- 1267 - 1505

English philosopher Roger Bacon describes flying machines in his Opus Majus. Leonardo da Vinci presents in his Codex on the Flight of Birds plans for flying machines, helicopters and light hang gliders.

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- 1670 - 1709 - 1783 - 1785 - 1797 - 1843 - 1852 - 1870 - 1891 - 1896 - 1901 - 1903 - 1904 - 1905 - 1908 - 1909 - 1910

Francesco Lana de Terzi shows a flying ship in his book Prodomo. Bartolomeu Laurenço de Gusmão demonstrates hot air balloons. Frenchman inventor Jacques Charles makes the first flight with a hydrogen balloon. Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent make the firstMontgolfier hot-air balloon flight. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries cross the English Channel in a balloon. André Jacques Garnerin jumps with a parachute from a balloon. George Cayley and William Samuel Henson design an aerial carriage. Frenchman Henri Giffard builds the first steam balloon. Alphonse Pénaud develops the rubber band helicopter toy. German engineer Otto Lilienthal studies the aerodynamic effects of wing shapes. Samuel Langley launches his first steam engine-powered unmanned aircraft. Brazilian Santos-Dumont flies around the Eiffel tower in Paris. Wilbur and Orville Wright fly a man-controlled airplane. German professor of mechanics Ludwig Prandtl reseraches the aerodynamics of an aircraft wing. The Flyer III is built by the Wright brothers. First army pilots. First passenger flight. First female airplane passenger. Eugène Lefèbvre becomes the first pilot of a powered airplane to be killed in flight. French pilot Louis Bleriot crosses for the first time the English Channel. First rotary-winged aircraft. First woman pilot American Geneve Shaffer. Walter Brookins sets an altitude record with 6,234 feet.

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Bibliography of the Airplane Timeline

Millard, A (2001). DK Big Book of Airplanes.
Hansen, O S (2003). Military Aircraft of World War I.
Polmar, P (2006). A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume 1 1909-1945.
Endres, G, Green, W, Swanborough, G, Mowinski, J (1998). Modern Commercial Aircraft: A Revised and Updated Illustrated Directory of the World's Civil Airliners, Aircraft Technology and Airlines.
Federal Aviation Administration (2007). Airplane Flying Handbook.
Wilson, S (1999). Airliners of the World.



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