On 1 May 1912, the Avro Type F, a pioneering British aircraft, successfully performed its maiden flight. The Type F was a light, mid-wing monoplane powered by a single 35 hp Viale radial engine. The […]
Messerschmitt M17 (c/n 25, D-779), exhibited at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, October 2013. In 1923, Willy Messerschmitt graduated from Technische Hochschule München (currently known as Technische Universität München – the Technical University of Munich) […]
On 24 April 1946, Yakovlev Yak-15 and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9, the two first-generation Soviet jet fighters, made their first flights. In the late 1930s, the development of operational jet engines entered a breakthrough phase. In Germany, […]
On 3 April 1933, two Westland aircraft, the PV-3 and the PV-6, successfully performed the first-ever flight over Mount Everest as part of the Houston–Mount Everest Flight Expedition. Although flying over the highest mountain on […]
On 13 February 1923, Charles Elwood “Chuck” Yeager, a USAF officer, combat ace, and test pilot, was born in Myra, West Virginia. Chuck Yeager was born into a farming family. He spent his youth in […]
On 23 January 1909, at Issy-les-Moulineaux, the first example of the Blériot XI monoplane successfully performed its maiden flight. The aircraft travelled approximately 200 metres and reached a speed of 75 km/h. Louis Charles Joseph […]
On 9 January 1793, Jean-Pierre Blanchard performed the first balloon flight in the Americas, taking off from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and landing in Deptford Township, New Jersey. Jean-Pierre Blanchard, a French inventor, aviation pioneer, and the […]
On 2 January 1880, Louis Charles Breguet, a French aviation pioneer and aircraft designer, was born in Paris. Louis Breguet the grandson of Louis Clément François Breguet and the great-great-grandson of Abraham-Louis Breguet, two renowned […]
On 19 December 1910, Yoshitoshi Tokugawa performed the first flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft in Japan, flying the Farman III aeroplane. Yoshitoshi Tokugawa was born in 1884, as the son of Count Tokugawa Atsumori. […]
On 21 November 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes made the world´s first untethered flight in a Montgolfier hot air balloon. The aerostat reached an altitude of 3,000 feet and remained airborne […]
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