1907: Romanian Trajan Vuia makes a flight in Paris of almost 66 feet, at a height of 16 feet, in his second machine which has a 24-hp Antoinette engine running on carbonic acid and has its wheels fitted with shock absorbers.
1908: The first flight of the Aerial Experiment Association’s (AEA) promising June Bug biplane, their third machine, takes place in New York State. It has a 40-hp air-cooled Curtiss engine.
1913: The first woman to make a parachute jump from an airplane is Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick. The 18-year-old American descends 1,000 feet over Los Angeles, California.
1951: First flight of the Handley Page HP.88.
2004: SpaceShipOne is the first non-government built spacecraft to transport a person into space and return safely to earth.
2005: First captive flight of Boeing X-37 under the Scaled Composites White Knight.