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- LostinService, on 11/23/2007, -0/+13Great little animation. In about 9 hours I'll be setting my own milestone and taking my private pilot checkride.
- bobbknight, on 11/23/2007, -0/+7No first Trans Atlantic flight? Charles Lindberg is crushed.
- gluesniffined, on 11/23/2007, -1/+6And what about Alberto Santos-Dumont? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-Dumont
- torpedobird, on 11/23/2007, -1/+5Why on earth do they keep skipping poor Mr. Pearse? The southern hemisphere deserves credit.
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/pearse1.htm ... - GTPilot, on 11/23/2007, -0/+4I remember that day, .. good luck!
- ThetaDot, on 11/23/2007, -1/+5Pretty amazing.
I can't believe aircraft as massive as the loaded C-130, A380, etc are able to take off and fly. The wingspan is just insane. - Phosphan, on 11/23/2007, -1/+5Where is Otto Lilienthal? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal
- inactive, on 11/23/2007, -0/+4Why is the marker for the wright brothers somewhere in the western half of the united states. Was it not flown in Kitty Hawk, NC?
- benroy, on 11/23/2007, -1/+5I'm almost offended at the amount of inaccuracies here. Did anyone else check out the the rest of the site?
Consider the source. http://www.dancewithshadows.com/ - wedgemartin, on 11/23/2007, -0/+3Besides. They were from _North Carolina_. Ask a Carolina man next time you get a chance how big the last fish he caught was.
- annonimality, on 11/23/2007, -0/+3Probably because there is so much controversy surrounding his accomplishments "Pearse himself made contradictory statements which for many years led the few who knew of his feats to accept 1904 as the date of his first flight" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse
- annonimality, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2The link you provided seems to belittle Santos-Dumont by saying that although the Wright Brothers' plane flew in 1903 nobody throughout the rest of the world new about it because they tended to operate in obscurity and "As a result, the few newspaper accounts that did appear were skeptical that the Wrights had really flown at all.". And even though Santos-Dumont's plane didn't fly until 1906, most Europeans credit him with the first flight because he "was a notorious showman and, before teeming crowds, performed grand aeronautical spectacles in the skies over Paris"
- wedgemartin, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2glue didn't say he was undeniably first, but his contribution to aeronautics should definitely be on this timeline. He flew around the eiffel tower in Paris in 1901 and didn't tie himself to a giant feathered object to break both of his legs to do it either.
- razrielle, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2Agreed, the only problem I saw though is that Kitty hawk is located in North Carolina
- ohsin, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2Helicopters?
- Zoshchenko, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2Kind of skipped over World War I there!
- Eslamicolt3, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2There's a lot missing. And where is Mr. Hughes? Surely he deserves to be on this list.
- wedgemartin, on 11/23/2007, -1/+3Who ever buried gluesniffined's comment should get their facts straight. Here's more information:
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/Columns/?Ar ... - raw10, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2Nice interface, and that's about it. Too bad it's not a Wiki. Among inaccuracies and omissions already mentioned, I didn't know that the Burt Rutan Voyager looked just like a Beechcraft Starship. And the dot for Kitty Hawk, NC looks like it's in the Midwest somewhere...
- directive0, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2Dude! I'm soloing today! Best of luck!
- colifis, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2The AN-225 is one awesome beast. Wrong picture shown for Rutan's voyager.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225 - MrTulip, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2"On 9 August 1896, however, he fell from a height of 17 m (56 ft), breaking his spine. He died the next day, saying, "Kleine Opfer müssen gebracht werden!" ("Small sacrifices must be made!")"
impressive... - LostinService, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2There is a lot missing, and I think the dot is supposed to be centered on each country, not its actual geographical location.
- Niubai, on 11/23/2007, -1/+3Buried because everybody knows the first guy to landing and arriving with an aeroplane by it's own means and in front of thousands of people (and not in "secret" and with a "catapult") was Alberto Santos Dumont.
- inactive, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1No formation of the mile high club?
- Hartrain, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Lindbergh was not the first to fly across the Atlantic. He was the first to fly non-stop and solo, NY to Paris.
- inactive, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1IT seemed that all of the US is represented by Minnesota.
- andreas1999, on 11/23/2007, -1/+2ah, beautiful example of the exponential progress of technology.
- damawa42, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1They seem to have a funny idea of where France is!
Also, it says in 1969 the 747 can carry 550 passengers, then later says the 747 can carry 1200-something but the new Airbus carries 2000-something? - hammerattack, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1It seems to me that they're choosing the geographic center of the various countries, not the actual site the event took place. I mean, they're still way off...
- soapycub, on 11/23/2007, -2/+3It's a good start -- As others have said, it needs serious revision.
- bazwilliams, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1What about the Comet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet The worlds first commercial jet airliner.... in 1949.
- inactive, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1WTF? How do you leave out Jet-Man?!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SHYXrqoS08o - FranksValli, on 11/24/2007, -0/+1Yeah, I noticed that :(. That's the part I really like, and usually the part of aviation history that's left out (everyone digs WWII aviation instead).
- hammerattack, on 11/25/2007, -0/+1Not only did they get the picture wrong for Burt Rutan's Voyager, but they left out Burt Rutan's successful civilian space launch. I know they left rockets out, but this is a genuine space plane.
- LimonHead, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Burried for lack of research. 74 years before the Montgolfier brothers balon, Bartolomeu de Gusmão flew in Europe with a ballon called Passarola. And it didn't put animals in the basket, he flew himself.
- jman66, on 11/23/2007, -2/+3buried due to much inaccuracy and several notable events left out
- datastorageguy, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Hmm..no Mercury 6 rockets or similar?
- datastorageguy, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Stop whining.
- nicepants, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Good luck! I'm soloing in a few hours!
- HulkPI, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Good Luck! I got my license in 97 , flew tiwce and have not flown since(life got in the way :( ), went back to start flying again recently and the prices have DOUBLED! wow
- Niubai, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Imagine you're running at the Olympics and beat the 100m world record in front of the Olympic Committee and 100.000 thousands of people on the stadium. Imagine you in the podium, waiting to be crowned and for your trophy, when some guy comes and say: "sorry dude, I beat this record of yours 2 months ago. It was only presented by two people and I didn't say to anyone else because I was afraid someone could stole my trophy, but it's true. Now could you please give me your trophy ? Thanks". That was exactly what happened with Santos Dumont. Very convincing, isn't ?
- ferrazf, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1This supposed "timeline" makes no mention of Santos-Dumont, heavily biased load of crap
- damawa42, on 11/23/2007, -0/+0LOL, I got dugg down for pointing out inaccuracies?
- mattabb, on 11/23/2007, -1/+1Probably the most notable event missed is the invention of the Jet Engine by Sir Frank Whittle
- InOmniaParatus8, on 11/23/2007, -0/+0Best of luck to you.
- Hartrain, on 11/23/2007, -2/+0I would say this is a very American-biased view of the story of aviation. As others have said, many flight pioneers have been left out.
- flynnfx, on 11/23/2007, -2/+0Buried as a bit too much of an American view of the history of flight.
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