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TEAM 4

1891
Otto
Lilienthal
m ade
his
first glider
flights.

1910
Jorge
Chavez
crosses the
Alps,
but
dies
to
complete
his feat.

1903
Decem ber
16: The
Wright
brothers
achieved the
first
continuous
flight in Kitty
Hawk.

1913
May
13:
Sikorski
built
the
first fourengine
plane.

1905
October 5:
Orville
Wright
takes
a
flight of 30
seconds, in
Dayton.

1914
First aerial
combat in
World War
I.

1906
Santos
Santos
Dum on
Dumont
t m ade
made the
the
first
public
first
flight by
public
plane
in
flight
Paris.
by
plane
in
Paris.
1919
First
air
passenger
service,
created by
Luft
Reederei.
Starts the
internation
al
passenger
service...

1923
Juan de la
Cierva
designs the
gyroplane to
an
aircraft
engine and a
propeller.

1924
December
12:
First
flight
effective
gyroplane
of
the
Deer.

1930
The
Briton
Frank
Whittle
patents
the jet
engine.

1932
May
20:
Amelia
Earhart
crosse
d the
Atlantic
solo
flight...
.....

1939
A ugust 27:
First flight
of a jet
plane, the
H einkel17S,
G erm an .

1945
Atom ic
bom bing
from the
air of
H iroshim a
and
N agasaki.

1962
The
governm ents
of Britain and
France
signed an
agreem en t to
build the
project of
supersonic
aircraft .

1970
The
B oeing
747
entered
service
and w as
the first
w idebod
y
com m er
cial
airliner.

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2000
A ir navigation
certificate w as
sig ned.

O ccurred first
com m ercial
launch of the
Airbus w orld's
largest
passenger.