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  • First Airplane

    First Airplane
    It was made of jumbo spruce planks. The wings were designed with 1 in 20 chambers.

  • First Automatic Airplane

    First Automatic Airplane
    Using a gyroscope Lawrence Sperry made the new generation of airplanes. Two year later Sperry and his father made a stirring gyroscope for better control over the craft

  • First Electromechanical Flight Simulator

    First Electromechanical Flight Simulator
    It was used by U.S miltary to teach the army how to fly the jets.

  • Jet engine is designed

    Jet engine is designed
    Was independently designed by a man of the name Frank Wittle. Wittle also had to design a new fuel for the big machine.

  • First small aircraft to make it to mass production

    First small aircraft to make it to mass production
    The craft was called the Learjet 23 and was accepted for its speed and durability

  • B-2 bomber

    B-2 bomber
    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. At about the same time, Lockheed designs the F-117 stealth fighter, also difficult to detect by radar.

  • Joint research program to develop second-generation supersonic airliner

    Joint research program to develop second-generation supersonic airliner
    NASA teams with American and Russian aerospace industries in a joint research program to develop a second-generation supersonic airliner for the 21st century.