Chronology of aeronautics

Chronology of the Aeronautical (Ballooning, Aviation, space Conquest).

2000 - 1990 - 1980 - 1970 - 1960 - 1950 - 1940 - 1930 - 1920 - 1910 - 1900 - before 1900 -

Years 2000

2005 - May 13rd: first flight of the Falcon 900 Dx
2005 - May 5th: first flight of the Falcon 7X
2005 - April 27th: first flight of the Airbus A380
2004 - November 16th: the X-43 of NASA reaches the speed of Mach 10.
2004 - October 4th: SpaceShipOne carries the Ansari X Prize and becomes the first experimental plane able to go up in space.
2003 - Fine of the commercial flights of the Harmony.
2002 - March 31st: Liquidation of the Swiss airline company, Swissair.
2001 - September 11th: Terrorist attack against New York and Washington.
2001 - April 28th: Dennis Tito become the first space tourist.
2000 - July 25th: The Concorde of Air France F-BTSC is crushed shortly after takeoff.

Years 1990

1999 - March 20th: The first round the world tour without stopover in balloon is buckled by the Breitling Orbiter III.
1998 - November 20th: Launching of the first element of the International space station.
1997 - X
1996 - June: The first launching of the European rocket ARIANE V.

1995 - August 18th: Round the world tour Agrees about it in only 31 hours and 27 minutes.
1994 - March 27th: First flight of the hunter Eurofighter 2000.
1993 - Delivery of the exemplary 1000e of the Boeing 747.
1992 - May 28th: The system GPS (Total Positioning System) makes it possible to be located with precision.
1991 - December 4th: The Pan Am disappears after 63 years from existence.
1990 - X

Years 1980

1989 - September 20th: Libyan attack against a plane of ATU to the Niger: 117 dead.
1988 - December 21st: Explosion of a Boeing 747 of the Side Am with the top of Lockerbie (Scotland): 258 dead.
1987 - May 28th: The German Mathias Rust poses his Cessna on the Red Place with Moscow.
1986 - January 28th: The American shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after his launching.

1985 - August 12th: Crash landing of a Boeing 747 of the Japan Airlines to the Mount Otsuka: 520 dead.
1984 - July 23rd: Broken down dry of fuel, a Boeing 767 of Air Canada is posed carefully in planed flight.
1983 - November 28th: The Spacelab makes its first flight on Columbia .
1982 - June 24th: Christian Jean-Wolf is the first French in space.
1981 - April 12th: The first American space shuttle, Columbia , carry out its first vol.
1980 - December 7th: First commercial flight enters the the United States and the China since 1949.

Years 1970

1979 - December 24th: The European rocket ARIANE makes a success of its first vol.
1978 - 12 - August 17th: First crossing of the Atlantic in balloon: 5 days and 17 hours.
1977 - February 18th: The American space shuttle accomplishes its first flight carried.
1976 - July 20th: The American probe Viking 1 is posed on the planet Mars.
1976 - First commercial supersonic flights of the Harmony.
1975 - May 30th: Creation of the European space agency (ESA).
1974 - May 14th: Service entrance of the first Airbus 300 with Air France.
1973 - June 3rd: A Soviet Tupolev You-144, copy of the Harmony, explodes in flight with the top of Le Bourget.
1972 - October 28th: First flight of the Airbus A300
1971 - April 19th: The Soviet Union sets up Salyut 1, first inhabited orbit station.
1970 - 6 - September 29th: Longer air diversion of the History.

Years 1960

1969 - July 21st: The astronaut Neil Armstrong carries out the first step of the man on the the Moon.
1968 - March 28th: Death of Youri Gagarine in an air crash landing on a Mig 15.
1967 - April 9th: First flight of the Boeing 737.
1966 - February 3rd: The Soviet probe Luna 9 is posed on the moon and transmits the first images of the lunar ground.
1965 - November 26th: France, 3rd space power while launching its Satellite Astérix with the Rocket Diamond.
1964 - November 4th: First automatic landing as a blind man (fog) for a commercial apparatus in service.
1963 - June 16th: Valentina Terechkova is the first woman in space.
1962 - July 10th: Launching of the first telecommunications satellite: TELSTAR.
1961 - April 12th: Youri Gagarine is the first man in space, on board its spaceship Vostok 1.
1960 - 1 {{er}} April: Launching of the first meteorological satellite: Tiros 1.

Years 1950

1959 - October 7th: The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first images of the hidden side of the moon.
1958 - October 1st: Creation of NASA (National Aeronautic and Space Administration).
1957 - October 4th: The Soviets launch the first artificial satellite: Sputnik 1.
1956 - May 21st: A B52 releases the first Bombe with hydrogen on the Atoll of Bikini.
1955 - May 27th: First flight of the Caravel whose engines are placed at the rear of the fuselage.
1954 - July 15th: First flight of the Boeing 707, four-jet American commercial aircraft.
1953 - January 17th: Dassault MANDELEVIUM 452 (Mystery IV) is the first French plane to break the wall of the sound.
1952 - April 15th: First flight of the bomber Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, with the the United States.
1952 - September 28th. First flight of the French fighter of the factories Dassault, the Mystery IV.
1951 -. Creation of the Japanese airline company Japan Airlines.
1950 - November 8th. First aerial combat between two jets.

Years 1940

1949 - blockade of Berlin overcome by an airlift without precedent.
1948 - September 6th. A De Havilland DH 108 British master key the wall of the sound.
1947 - October 14th: Chuck Yeager breaks the wall of the sound on a Bell X1.
1946 - November 11th: First flight of the first French jet: South-western SO-6000 Triton.
1945 - August 6th: Colonel Paul Tibbets, with the orders of a B-29, coward on Hiroshima the first atomic bomb.
1944 - First jet engaged in combat: the Messerschmitt Me 262.
1943 - January 9th: First flight of the Lockheed Constellation.
1942 - October 3rd: First successful launch of a ballistic rocket: the V2 of Wernher von Braun.
1941 - December 7th: Air attack of Japanese on Pearl Harbor.
1940 - the Battle of England: the RAF pushes back the massive air attempt at Goering.

Years 1930

1939 - April 26th: Fritz Wendel sign speed records with a Messerschmitt Bf 109: 755,138 km/h.
1938 - October 22nd: Mario Pezzi takes down the record of altitude with 17 083 m out of Caproni 161 (a).
1937 - April 2nd: First bombardment of terror carried out on the town of Guernica in Spain.
1936 - December 7th: Disappearance of Jean Mermoz in the South Atlantic aboard the seaplane the cross of the South .
1935 - March 9th: Goering announces the creation of the Luftwaffe, air force German.
1934 - the Soviets reach the Stratosphère (22 000 m).
1933 - August 30th: Creation of the airline company Air France.
1932 - - May 21st: Amelia Earhart is the first woman to cross the North Atlantic in solo.
1931 - August 18th: First flight of a balloon in stratosphere (15 780 m), with Swiss the Auguste Piccard and Kipfer.
1930 - May 12th: Jean Mermoz connects Saint-Louis (Senegal) and Brazil in 21 hours on board Latécoère 28.

Years 1920

1929 - November 21st: Costes and Bellonte completes a raid of 24.275 km on board their “question mark”.
1928 - 12 and April 13rd: A crew irlando-German makes a success of the crossing of the Northern Atlantique of is in west.
1927 - May 21st: Charles Lindbergh crosses the Northern Atlantique without stopover between New York and Paris.
1926 - October: World records of distance with 5.396 km without stopover by Costes and Rignot on a “Bréguet 19”.
1925 - the Aéropostale inaugurates the line Casablanca - Dakar.
1924 - May 4th: first flight of 1 km in closed circuit in the helicopter produced by Etienne Oehmichen with Valentigney.
1923 - June 27th: The first in-flight refueling is successful with San Diego (California).
1922 - June 5th: The Portuguese Cabral and Coutinho sign the first crossing of the Atlantique Southern.
1921 - April 1st: First crossing of the the Andes by the Frenchwoman Adrienne Bolland on “Caudron G.III”.
1920 - February 27th: Major Schroeder exceeds the 10.000 m of altitude to Dayton (Ohio) on board a “Lepère”.

Years 1910

1919 - 14 - June 15th: First crossing without stopover of the Atlantic by the British John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown on board Vickers Vimy.
1919 - February 8th: First commercial connection France - Great Britain between Paris and London.
1918 - April 13rd: First crossing of the Andes by the way of the airs, carried out by the Argentinian pilot Shine Candelaria.
1917 - August 17th: The first French air-mail connection is carried out between Paris, Mans and Saint-Nazaire.
1916 - September 17th: On board a Albatross D.II, Manfred von Richthofen sign its first air victory.
1915 - December 12th: The Junkers J1 is the first entirely metal plane to fly.
1914 - October 5th: Frantz and Quenault gain the first air victory, thanks to the use of a machine-gun.
1913 - September 23rd: Roland Garros sign the first crossing of the the Mediterranean.
1912 - December 12th: The “ejector seat” of the baron d' Odkolek is tested with Issy-les-Moulineaux
1911 - October 23rd: The Italians are the first to use planes with the combat at the time of the war of Libya.
1910 - March 10th: First night flight carried out by Emile Aubrun in Villalugano, close to Buenos Aires in Argentina. First flight of a seaplane produced by Henri Fabre.

Years 1900

1909 - July 25th: Louis Blériot crosses the sleeve between Calais and Dover with its Blériot XI in 37 minutes
1908 - December: In margin of the Motor Show, held of the first Living room of aviation with Paris.
1907 - January 22nd: Robert Esnault-Pelterie deposits the patent of the “handle” making it possible to direct an airplane.
1906 - November 12th - Alberto Santos-Dumont accomplishes a flight with Bagatelle on 220 m in 21 seconds.
1905 - 12 - October 14th: Creation of the international aeronautical Federation (FAI) in Paris.
1904 - September 20th: First flight in closed circuit: it is carried out by the Wright brothers on their Flyer II.
1903 - December 17th: The Frères Wright accomplish a flight on nearly 260 m in 59 seconds.
1902 - February 4th: First flight in balloon with the top of the the Antarctic with Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton
1901 - October 19th: The first airship to circumvent the Eiffel Tower is controlled by Alberto Santos-Dumont.
1900 - July 2nd: The count Ferdinand von Zeppelin makes steal his Dirigeable LZ 1 above the Lac of Constancy.

Before 1900

{{S|XIX|E}} - October 9th 1890: Clément Ader manages to make take off an apparatus of its design baptized Éole and crosses 50 m to 20 cm height.
{{S|XVIII|E}} - October 19th 1783: First flight of a balloon with hot air: the Montgolfier, with the Madness Titon, Paris, France.
Before the {{S|XVIII|E}} - -750: According to the Legend, Icare takes its take-off.

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