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 * __TIMELINE OF AIRTRAVEL.__

__KITES__** The first man made object to be launched into and travel through the air was a kite! Kites where first used approximetly 2,800 years ago in china. The kite was said to be the invention of the famous 5th century BC Chinese philosophers Mozi and Lu Ban. By at least 549AD paper kites where being flown, as it was recorded in that year a paper kites was used as a message for a rescue mission. The first chinese kites were flat and rectangular. in the first century kites were introduced to Korea and Japan. and the Romans were flying decorated windsocks as military banners. Emperor Wudi in China flew a kite, hidden an edict to ask for reinforcement in it. In 960-1126 flying kites became a popular activity in China. People celebrated the ninth day of the month, a day signifying the banishing of evil, by flying kites.In 1295 kites were introduced to Europe by Marco Polo, an Italian explorer who returned from China**.** In 1655 kite Flying was inhibited in Japan. Kite stores in the town closed but the kite flying was continued still by children.In 1656 kite Flying was inhibited again in Japan. In 1749 Scottish meteorologists named Dr.Alexander Wilson and Thomas Melville used kites to lift thermometers to a height of 3000 feet to measure temperature variations at altitude.In 1752 Benjamin Franklin flew his kite to collect the electricity from storm clouds in Philadelphia.In 1804 Geroge Vaykey developed the concept of heavier-than-air flight. His glider was a modified arch top kite.In 1822 George Pockock developed one of the strangest uses of kite power. He used a pair of kites to pull a special light-weight carriage at speeds of up to 20 miles per hour. Some of his kite trip were recorded at over 100 miles. In 1833 A British meteorologist, E.D.Archibold started using kites to lift anemometers to measure wind speed at various altitudes. The first "tethered" balloon flight with humans on board took place on October 19,1783. The first "free" flight with human passengers was on november 19, 1783,in Paris, France, the first human flight was made by Jean-Francois Piltare de Rozier and Francois Laurent d'Arlandes created by the Montgolfier brothers. In 1793 Jean-Pierre Blanchard makes the first balloon ascent in the United States.In 1803 July 18, Etienne Gaspar Robertson and Lhoest climb from Hamburg (Germany) up to 7,280 m in a balloon.In 1823 Englishman Thomas Harris jumps to his death from a balloon in order to save his fiancée's life when relieving all ballast cannot stop the precipitous plunge after an accidental drop in pressure. In 1837 Robert Cocking jumps from a balloon piloted by Charles Green at a height of 2,000 m (6,600 ft) to demonstrate a parachute of his own design, and is killed in the attempt.In 1839 Charles Green and the astronomer Spencer Rush climb up to 7,900 m in a free balloon.
 * __BALLOONS__**

__**PLANES**__ The first plane to achieve flight was designed by the Wright brothers in 1899. it was a small, biplane glider flown as a kite to test their solution for controlling the craft.Following a successful glider test, the Wrights built and tested a full-size glider. In 1900, the Wrights successfully tested their new 50-pound biplane glider with its 17-foot wingspan. In 1901, at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, the Wright Brothers flew the largest glider ever flown, with a 22-foot wingspan and a weight of nearly 100 pounds. In 1902 the Wright Brothers designed a motor and a new aircraft sturdy enough to accommodate the motor's weight and vibrations. The craft weighed 700 pounds and came to be known as the Flyer. The brothers built a movable track to help launch the Flyer. This downhill track would help the aircraft gain enough airspeed to fly. In 1904, the first flight lasting more than five minutes took place on November 9. The Flyer II was flown by Wilbur Wright. In 1908, passenger flight took a turn for the worse when the first fatal air crash occurred on September 17. Orville Wright was piloting the plane. Orville Wright survived the crash, but his passenger did not. In 1909, the U.S. Government bought its first airplane, a Wright Brothers biplane, on July 30. The airplane sold for $25,000. In 1911, the Wrights brothers ' Vin Fiz was the first airplane to cross the United States. The flight took 84 days, stopping 70 times. It crash-landed so many times that little of its original building materials were still on the plane when it arrived in California. In 1912, a Wright Brothers plane, the first airplane armed with a machine gun was flown at an airport in College Park, Maryland. On July 18, 1914 a flying unit was made in the army. Its flying unit contained airplanes made by the Wright Brothers as well as some made by their chief competitor, Glenn Curtiss.During the first world war the armys demanded to have more powerfull aircrafts.On May 21 1927, Charles Lindbergh completes the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic, traveling 3,600 miles from New York to Paris in a Ryan monoplane named the //Spirit of St. Louis//. U.S. In 1947 air Force pilot Captain Charles Yeager becomes the fastest man alive when he pilots the Bell X-1 faster than sound for the first time on October 14 over the town of Victorville, California.The prototype De Havilland Comet makes its first flight on July 27 1949. Three years later the Comet starts regular passenger service as the first jet-powered commercial aircraft, flying between London and South Africa. Boeing makes the B-52 bomber. It has eight turbojet engines, intercontinental range, and a capacity of 500,000 pounds.In 1969 Boeing conducts the first flight of a wide-body, turbofan-powered commercial airliner, the 747, one of the most successful aircraft ever produced. In 1986 Burt Rutan crafts the Voyager for flying around the world nonstop on a single load of fuel. Voyager has two centerline engines, one fore and one aft, and weighs less than 2,000 pounds. It is piloted by Jeana Yeager and Burt’s brother Dick Rutan, who circumnavigate the globe (26,000 miles) nonstop in 9 days. In the 1990s Northrop Grumman develops the B-2 bomber, with a "flying wing" design. Made of composite materials rather than metal, it cannot be detected by conventional radar.In 1995 Boeing debuts the twin-engine 777, the biggest two-engine jet ever to fly and the first aircraft produced through computer-aided design and engineering.In 1998 NASA teams with American and Russian aerospace industries in a joint research program to develop a second-generation supersonic airliner for the 21st century. Even though the Aeroscraft dwarfs the largest commercial airliners, it requires less net space on the ground than any plane because it doesn't need a runway The airship takes off and lands like a helicopter straight up and down This is not a Blimp It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that could change the way you think about air travel. ||
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