History of Flight

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History of Flight

• Flight Time Line

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
http//www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/wb002
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Montgolfier Hot Air Balloon Flight November 21,
1783
http//www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/wb010
8s.jpg
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Chanute Gliders 1896
http//www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/wb003
9p_008s.jpg
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Wright Brothers First Powered Flight December
17, 1903
http//www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/wb007
4s.jpg
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Wright Brothers Worlds First Practical
Airplane 1905
http//www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/wb008
5s.jpg
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Goddard First Free Flight Liquid Fueled Rocket
1926
http//lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/afc-legaci
es/NM/200003352/i0001.jpg
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Lindbergh First Solo Nonstop Trans-Atlantic
Flight - 1927
http//memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils_at_filr
eq(_at_field(NUMBER_at_band(cph3b39626))_at_field(COLLID
cph))
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Earhart First Woman to Fly Solo Nonstop
Trans-Atlantic Flight 1932
http//memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils_at_filr
eq(_at_field(NUMBER_at_band(cph3c19130))_at_field(COLLID
cph))
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Yeager Bell X-1 First aircraft to exceed
speed of sound 1947
http//memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils_at_filr
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cph))
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Yuri Gagarin First Man in Space 1961
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eld(NUMBER_at_1(cph3b43069))
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b/2/2b/Russia-Moscow-VDNH-Rocket_R-7-1.jpg/250px-R
ussia-Moscow-VDNH-Rocket_R-7-1.jpg
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First Men on Moon July 20, 1969
http//antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950829.html
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageBuzz_Aldrin_bla
ck_and_white_dress_uniform_photo_portrait.jpg
http//lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?pp/PPALL_at_fi
eld(NUMBER_at_1(cph3c22951))
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Space Shuttle Columbia First Shuttle Flight
April 12-14, 1981
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000/3g03600/3g03613t.gif
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ons/thumb/c/c4/300px-Space_Shuttle_Columbia_launch
ing.jpg
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International Space Station Began 1998
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageISS_after_STS-1
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