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Timeline for Airline Industry

  • Auto Pilot Aircraft (Artificial intelligence)

    Auto Pilot Aircraft (Artificial intelligence)
    The Autopilot aircraft project was executed by Sperry Corporation in France from 1911 and finished in 1912. It was the first artificial intelligence aircraft which flew without pilot’s attention with help of gyroscope.An autopilot is designed to perform some of the tasks of the pilot. It permitted the plane to fly straight and level on a compass course without a pilot's attention, greatly reducing the pilot's workload.
  • Spruce Goose

    Spruce Goose
    Spruce goose to be consider the largest wingspan aircraft that has ever flown. In 1942, the U.S war department gave the project of manufacture the air craft which can transfer man power in world war ||. The project was started in 1942 and completed in 1947. This giant flying boat, made of wood and fitted with eight engines, was designed during World War II in response to the country's long range heavy transport needs. $2, 50,000 were provided to manufacture that huge flying boat.
  • North American X-15

    North American X-15
    North American X-15 is one the fastest war plane which has ever flown.it was manufactured by north American aviation in USA. The project was ended on 8 June 1959.It was unique because of its high-speed capability, the X-15 had to be designed to withstand aerodynamic temperatures on the order of 1,200 degrees F.; as a result, the aircraft was fabricated using a special high-strength nickel alloy named Inconel X .
  • SR-71 Blackbird

    SR-71 Blackbird
    SR71 blackbird was a unique project designed jointly by Lockhead and Air force in Nevada USA.The start date for the project was 1958. The end date of the project was 4 years later in 1962. SR-71 is a project because it still is the fastest aircraft in the world with the speed of Mach 3.3.
  • Concorde

    Concorde
    Concorde the first supersonic passenger- carrying airplane. It was built jointly by aircraft manufacturers in Great Britain and France. It was jointly designed by British Aerospace and French firm Aerospatiale. Rolls Royce was responsible for the engine. End date- 1969 Start date-1965.
  • Airbus A-380

    Airbus A-380
    The project was initiated by Airbus in 1994 and end date was 2007. The project purpose was develop their own very large commercial transport. The Airbus A-380 is the largest airliner ever built and is the world’s first double-deck passenger aircraft. Development costs of the Airbus A-380 were initially put at $8 billion but have risen to $12.2 billion. The airbus A-380 was assembled in France. The first Airbus was delivered to Singapore Airlines.
  • Solar Impulse-2

    Solar Impulse-2
    The project was executed by solar impulse foundation in 2010 and end date was 2014. Two Swiss engineers Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borscherg was the founder of the solar impulse 2. The solar impulse 2 was manufactured in America. The solar impulse 2 was first flight which completed 40,000 km flight without using fossil fuel. Solar impulse 2 spent 23 days in the air and crossed both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans on solar energy. The solar impulse 2 project cost estimated around $170 Million.
  • Hands free check-ins with Amazon Alexa (Artificial intelligence)

    Hands free check-ins with Amazon Alexa (Artificial intelligence)
    United Airlines with collaboration with Amazon allows users to get flight status and check ins. The end date for the project was September 2017. This is called a project as it was the first time when artificial intelligence was used for check-ins and to get the flight information.
  • Facial recognition technology (Artificial Intelligence)

    Facial recognition technology (Artificial Intelligence)
    In May 2017, Delta announced a reported $600,000 investment in four automated self-service bag checking kiosks including one that will incorporate facial recognition technology. The airline selected Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to debut the four self-service kiosks, and claims that facial recognition technology will be used to verify customer identity by matching customer faces to passport photos.