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...

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...

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...

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:...

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

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...

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

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:...

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...

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

The AeroVelo Atlas is a human-powered helicopter (HPH) that was built for AHS International's Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition. On...

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...

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...

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...

Tour de Sol Wind-powered vehicle Solar Team Eindhoven wins Crunchie in San Francisco "The First Four-Seater, Solar-Powered Vehicle Hits the U.S. Road". 24...

powered by Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines. At the time of the accident, it had accumulated about 11,000 flight hours in 6,800 flight cycles (a flight...

thousand spectators, was caught on video. This particular flight was the A320's first passenger flight and most of those on board were journalists and raffle...

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...

1901) There are many competing claims for the earliest powered, heavier-than-air flight. The first recorded powered flight was carried out by Clément Ader...

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....

is a liquid-fuelled rocket powered by liquid oxygen and liquid methane (methalox), and is the first methane-fueled rocket to reach orbit. Zhuque-2 has...