have been claimed to be the first to fly a powered aeroplane. Much controversy surrounds these claims. It is generally accepted today that the Wright brothers...

hypersonic flight by powered, heavier-than-air jets. Kite flying in China dates back to several hundred years BC and slowly spread around the world. It...

aircraft to successfully make a heavier-than-air flight; some, however, believe that it may have achieved uncontrolled flight. Claims to the first powered flight...

contra-rotating rotors powered by a simple spring similar to a bow saw, now accepted as the first powered helicopter. Attempts at man-powered flight still persisted...

18, 1998, it was flown 500 m (1,600 ft). Gustave Whitehead Claims to the first powered flight Scientific American (1901) Library of Congress, Chronicling...

described the paper as pseudoscience. Claims to the first powered flight Ganesan, Ranjita (10 January 2015). "The aviator?". Business Standard India. Retrieved...

human-powered aircraft (HPA) is an aircraft belonging to the class of vehicles known as human-powered transport. As its name suggests, HPAs have the pilot...

The Wright Flyer (also known as the Kitty Hawk, Flyer I or the 1903 Flyer) made the first sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled...

human-powered helicopter (HPH) is a helicopter powered solely by one or more humans carried on board. As in other human-powered aircraft, the power is usually...

reduce the environmental impact of aviation. Boeing acknowledges the technology potential and Airbus plans to launch a first commercial hydrogen-powered aircraft...

steam-powered aluminium monoplane off a downhill run. While it did not achieve level flight, it was the first manned heavier-than-air powered flight. 1877:...

article during the centennial celebration of the Wright brothers' historic flight in December 2003. Claims to the first powered flight List of The New York...

heavier-than-air powered flight achieved by an airplane flown at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina by Orville and Wilbur Wright. See Claims to the first powered flight. 1904:...

flying the world's first successful airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of an engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright...

have been shown as the main reasons behind "India's first unmanned plane". Aircraft in fiction Claims to the first powered flight Quimbaya artifacts,...

A nuclear-powered aircraft is a concept for an aircraft intended to be powered by nuclear energy. The intention was to produce a jet engine that would...

Crewed flights in an electrically powered airship go back to the 19th century, and to 1917 for a tethered helicopter. Electrically powered model aircraft...

history of television) Claims to the first powered flight: Shivkar Bapuji Talpade in the Marutsakhā (1895), Clément Ader in the Avion III (1897), Gustave...

Whitehead's own claims that he flew a powered machine successfully several times in 1901 and 1902, predating the first flights by the Wright Brothers...

The award, the AHS Sikorsky Prize, was given for the first human powered helicopter (HPH) to meet a set of extremely challenging flight requirements...

France Flight 296Q was a chartered flight of a new Airbus A320-111 operated by Air Charter International for Air France. On 26 June 1988, the plane crashed...

station keeping, they can be solar-powered with energy storage for the night. The first stratospheric powered airship flight took place in 1969, reaching 70...

Unity to a speed of Mach 1.87 and an altitude of 84,271 ft (25,686 m). The first powered test flight of Unity exceeded the altitude of all powered test...

The Wright brothers invented and flew the first airplane in 1903, recognized as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight"...

independently in the early 1930s. In August 1939 the turbojet powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft, made its first flight. A wide range...

View, California, on the ninth leg of a round-the-world flight to be the first solar-powered aircraft circumnavigation and the first to do so without using...

Services agreement for 12 cargo deliveries. First operational cargo resupply mission to ISS, the fourth flight of Falcon 9, was launched on 7 October 2012...

that the Malaysian government officially declared Flight 370 an accident with no survivors, a move that would allow compensation claims to be made. The first...

flight. However, the lack of directional control, and the fact that steam-powered aircraft proved to be a dead end, both weigh against these claims....

engine–powered version was considered, but never reached the drawing board. In the IJN designation system, "J" referred to land-based fighters and "W" to Watanabe...