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Zeppelin airship seen from water at 6:05 AM, 4 Aug., 1908 George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Brazilian born Alberto de Santos Dumont tests in France the controls of his first aircraft with it suspended from his No. 14 airship. Santos Dumont called the airplane…
The Vought V-173, known as the “Flying Pancake”, was an experimental airplane designed by Charles H. Zimmerman during WWII, under the US Navy fighter aircraft program. This plane…
The Flettner airplane, 921-v, a wing rotor airplane designed and built n 1930 by Anton Flettner, in the USA. This airplane, with an unique design based on the…
Ballon Ascension — Thomas Baldwin Made first parachute jump in 1887. Baldwin was the first American to descend from a balloon by parachute.
The Baldwin airship at Hammondsport, New York, in 1907. Thomas Scott Baldwin, second from left, became the first American to descend from a balloon by parachute, in 1887.
Traveling backwards The concorde was so fast that it was possible to fly around the world and against the clock. In the end of the last millennium, Air…
Tupolev Tu-144 was the world’s first commercial supersonic transport aircraft, premiered on 31 December 1968, just two months before the first flight of Concorde. The aircraft was introduced…
March, 2, 1969: The first flight of Concorde 001 F-WTSS. The Anglo-French plane took off from Toulouse and was in the air for just 27 minutes before the…