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Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy, near Florence. -
Period: Apr 15, 1452 to
Aviation timeline
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Jan 1, 1485
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci starts to design flying machines and parachute. -
Francesco de Lana Terzi
Francesco de Lana Terzi publishes a design for lighter-than-air ship. -
Giovanni Borelli
Giovanni Borelli, Italian mathematician, concludes human muscle is inadequate for flight. -
Bartolomeu Laurenço de Gusmao
The first documented flight was on August 8, 1709 by Bartolomeu Lourenco de Gusmao. The flight occurred in the palace of King John V of Portugal. The balloon was constructed of paper over a wood frame, above a brazier burning some
materials that caused it to fill with hot smoke. Rising quickly, it was prevented from reaching the ceiling, as with other attempts fire escaping was a concern. -
Montgolfier brothers hot air balloon
Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier were trying to float bags made of paper and fabric. When the brothers held a flame near the opening at the bottom, the bag (AKA: a balloon) expanded with hot air and floated up. The Montgolfier brothers built a larger paper-lined silk balloon and demonstrated it on June 4, 1783, in the marketplace at Annonay. Their balloon called the Montgolfiere flew 6,562 feet into the air. -
Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes
Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon. -
Jacques Alexandre César Charles and M.N. Robert
Jacques Alexandre César Charles and M.N. Robert fly in a hydrogen balloon. They rose to about 2,000 feet in the hydrogen balloon.Then while Marie-Noel stepped out of the basket under the balloon, the balloon was relieved of his weight. Charles shot up to over 9,000 feet. -
Crossing the english channel
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France. they crossed it in a gas balloon. but on the way they got a suprise. the air ship started to desend. On an account that they had anchors, a nonfunctional hand-operated propeller, and silk-covered oars. so they used the oars to paddle there way through the air and when that didnt work, in a frantic panic blanchard through his trousers overboard. Luckly they made it to Calais, France. -
First ballooning fatalities
Jean François de Rozier and Pierre Romain are the first ballooning fatalities. In that month Jean François de Rozier saw that one of the other aviators crossed the english channel in his hot air balloon. So he challenged him to a contest and that contest was that he could cross the english channel in worse condidtions so he had to build something stable that he could control in that weather. So he bulit a balloon that had a hydrogen balloon and a hot air balloon. That was unsuccessful. -
The first human parachute descent, from a balloon
André-Jacques Garnerin was the first person to jump from a balloon and parachute to the ground. He was 3,000 feet off the ground when he jumped. The balloon swayed back and fourth and crashed André-Jacques Garnerin came out unhurt. -
George Cayley publishes classic treatise on aviation
George Cayley publishes classic treatise on aviation in 1809. -
Design for aerial steam carriage is published.
William Henson's design for aerial steam carriage is published. He published this design in 1843.Many widely-published illustrations showed the Henson's Ariel called his machine-in effortless flight over China, India, and the pyramids of Egypt. -
He was the first to suggest the idea for a convertiplane.
Around 1843, he was the first to suggest the idea for a convertiplane, this idea was published in the paper that same year. During some point prior to 1849 he designed and built a biplane powered with flaps in which an unknown ten-year-old boy flew. Later, with the continued assistance of his grandson George John Cayley and his resident engineer Thomas Vick, he developed a larger scale glider which flew across Brompton Dale in 1853. -
Henri Giffard's steam-powered airship makes first flight.
On 24 September 1852 Giffard made the first powered and controlled flight travelling over 16mph from Paris to Trappes. The wind was too strong to allow him to make way against it, so he was unable to return to the start. However, he was able to make turns and circles, proving that a powered airship could be steered and controlled. -
Wilbur Wright is born
Wilbur Wright, was born on April 16, 1867 in a farm near Millville, Indiana. -
Penaud helicopter
Shortly before his death at the age of thirty Penaud revived a sort of "Chinese top", with one original feature. Motive power was provided by pieces of twisted indiarubber - a method still in use today by aero modellers. -
Orville Wright is born.
Orville Wright was born on August 19, 1871 in Dayton, Ohio. -
Otto Lilienthal begins successful gliding experiments.
Otto Lilienthal built his first glider in 1891.His early gliders were monoplanes with cambered wings and fixed tail plane.All his designs applied and tested his theories. -
Otto Lilienthal is the first man to launch himself,fly, and land safely
The German engineer Otto Lilienthal was the first man to launch himself into the air, fly, and land safely. Before his death in 1896, he had built eighteen models—fifteen monoplanes and three biplanes.He had also taken more than 2,000 glider flights. -
Count Ferdinand Zeppelin
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was the inventor of the rigid airship, or dirigible balloon. he was born on July 8,1838 in Konstanz, Prussia. He made the first directied dirigible balloon on July 2, 1900. The dirigible balloon was called the LZ1. -
Charles Augustus Lindbergh Birth
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born on Feb. 4, 1902, in Detroit, Michigan. He grew up on a farm near Little Falls, Minn. He was the son of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Sr., a lawyer, and his wife, Evangeline Lodge Land. -
Wright Brothers first successful flight
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a beach in Kittyhawk,North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. -
Anne Morrow's Birth
Anne Morrow was born on June 22, 1906 in Englewood, New Jersey. -
Louis Bleriot crosses the english channel
Louis Bleriot crosses the english channel in a monoplane called the Bleriot VIII. He flew the plane across the english channel in 37 minutes with the fact that he had gotten blown off course. -
Raymonde de Laroche pilots license
Raymonde de Laroche first got her pilots license on March 8, 1910. She recived it from the AéroClub of France on 8 March 1910. -
Salim Ilkucan crosses the Sea of Marmara
Salim Ilkucan crosses Sea of Marmara by achieving the longest over-sea flight in a doubleplane.
