10 Interesting Fact About Aviation and flight history
10 Interesting Fact About Aviation and flight history
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The first aircraft that successfully flew was the Wright Flyer in 1903 with a distance of flight as far as 120 feet or about 37 meters.
In 1914, the first pilot to fly past the Atlantic Ocean from the United States to Europe was John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown.
In 1957, Laika became the first animal to fly into space on Sputnik 2 aircraft launched by the Soviet Union.
The first commercial aircraft to have vertical landing capabilities is the British Harrier Jump Jet in 1960.
In 1969, the Boeing 747 aircraft debuted as the first commercial aircraft with a passenger capacity of more than 400 people.
In 1986, the Commercial Space Shuttle Challenger's commercial aircraft had a tragic accident while sliding into the sky and killed seven crew.
In 2005, the Airbus A380 aircraft debuted as the largest aircraft in the world with a passenger capacity of 853 people.
In 2012, Felix Baumgartner made a free jump from a height of 128,100 feet or about 39 kilometers above the earth's surface using a balloon and reached a maximum speed of 843.6 miles per hour.
In 2016, Solar Impulse aircraft managed to fly around the world for 505 days using solar energy.
In 2019, Boeing 737 Max commercial aircraft suffered two accidents that killed a total of 346 people, so that this aircraft was prohibited from flying for several months to improve the safety system.
