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flight technology

  • first hot air balloon

    first hot air balloon
    The brothers Joseph-Ralf and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier developed a hot air balloon in Annonay, Ardeche, France
  • first airplane

    first airplane
    Two American brothers, inventors, got credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903 four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
  • first helicopter

    first helicopter
    Took flight at Stratford, Connecticut. Designed by Igor Sikorsky and built by the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corporation
  • first private jet

    first private jet
    The Lockheed JetStar is the earliest Business Jet
  • first spaceship

    first spaceship
    the first spaceship landed on Venus. Directed by Kurt Maetzig and starring Günther Simon