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1000 BCE ✔✔Kites are invented in China

852 BCE ✔✔The English King Bladud is apparently killed attempting to fly

1485 - 1500 ✔✔Leonardo da Vinci designs flying machines

1709 ✔✔Bartolomeu Laurenco de Gusmao designs a model glide

1783 ✔✔The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight was created by Montgolfier brothers in Paris, France

1843 ✔✔George Cayley's biplane design was published

1895 ✔✔Otto Lilienthal flies biplane gliders

1903 ✔✔Wright brothers made the first recorded powered, sustained and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air aircraft flying machine

1904 ✔✔Richard Pearse from New Zealand made his first recorded powered flight of more than a few seconds

1911 ✔✔George Bolt launched a glider that he had designed and built himself from the Cashmere Hills above Christchurch. In 1911, he took New Zealand's first aerial photographs. In 1916, he began work as an apprentice mechanic at the Walsh brothers' New Zealand Flying School in Auckland.

1921 ✔✔Bessie Coleman became the first African-American to gain a pilot's license

1927 ✔✔Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight

1930 ✔✔British Inventor Frank Whittle invented the jet engine

1932 ✔✔Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly a solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flgiht

1932-1937 ✔✔New Zealander made a record-breaking flights around the world

1939 ✔✔Germany's Heinkel 178 became the first fully jet-propelled aircraft to fly.

1947 ✔✔Charles Yeager pilots the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in level flight.

1969 ✔✔First flights of supersonic transport - Soviet TU-144 and Anglo-French Concorde.

1970 ✔✔Boeing 747 made the first commercial flight.

1976 ✔✔Concorde begins its first passenger-carrying service

Concorde ✔✔A turbojet-powered supersonic passenger jet airliner operated until 2003. It had a maximum speed more than twice the speed of sound.

Pan Am ✔✔Introduced its first 747 service on January 22, 1970.

Clipper Victor ✔✔Original name of the second 747

Clipper Young America ✔✔carried 335 passengers and 20 crew members from New York's JFK Airport to London Heathrow on the first commercial flight of a 747

1979 ✔✔Bryan Allen pedals the Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel, breaking the distance record for human-powered flight.

1986 ✔✔Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager fly the US ultralight Voyager around the world in a 9- day non-stop flight from California to California.

2005-2006 ✔✔Steve Fossett made the first non-stop solo flight around the world (2005) and in 2006 landed in England after flying around the world once and crossing the Atlantic twice - a distance of 26,389.3 miles (42,469.46 kilometres).

2009 ✔✔New Zealand pilot Terry Delore breaks the world gliding record by 100 kilometres, travelling a total of 2,400 kilometres within New Zealand.

2011 ✔✔In an unmanned test, the Martin jetpack reached an altitude of 5,000 feet (1, metres). The jetpack, invented by New Zealander, Glenn Martin, is a small flying device for one person. It was named one of the world's top 10 inventions in 2010.

2016 ✔✔Solar Impulse 2 became the first plane powered by a renewable energy source to tour the globe

2019 ✔✔In December the world's first fully-electric aircraft for commercial flight completed a test in Canada