Timeline of Aviation History

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Significant events in IB's aviation and space exploration history:

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Before 1900

• 1783 – Montgolfier brothers make their first ascent in a balloon (France)
• 1852 – Henri Giffard creates the first engine-powered balloon (France)
• 1863 – Dr. Solomon Andrews creates the first fully-steerable dirigible balloon (NAL-SLC)
• 1872 – Paul Haenlein uses the internal combustion engine to propel a balloon for the first time (HRE)
• 1873 – Alberto Santos Duval born (Brasil)
• 1884 – Charles Renard and Arthur Constantin Krebs make the first fully-controlled flight in their dirigible La France (France)
• 1889 – Birth of GW2 Luftwaffe head Ernst von Gehringer
• 1895 – Don Juan de la Xierva born (Aragon)
• 1896 – David Schwarz of Dalmatia builds the first rigid airship (Dalmatia)
• 1898 – Alberto Santos Duval's first ascent in a self-designed balloon, the Brasil (France)
• 1899 – Birth of Amelie-Marie Earhart

1900-1909

• 1900 – Graf von Zeppelin launches his first airship, the LZ1
• 1902? - First airline DELAG (Deutsche Luftschifffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft) founded (HRE)
• 1906 – First flight of a heavier-than-air craft made by Alberto Santos Duval (France)

1910-1919

• 1910 – Henri Fabre makes the first flight of a seaplane (France)
• 1911 – First appearance of military aircraft in the Italian-Turkish war (Libya)
• 1912 – Juan de la Xierva builds his first aeroplane
• 1914-1917 – First Great War
• 1919 (June) – Capt. John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Brown complete the first crossing of the Atlantic by an aeroplane (FK)
• 1919 (July) – H.M.A. R34 completes the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship (England)

1920-1929

• 1920 – First flight of an autogiro made by Juan de la Xierva
• 1922 – Birth of Igor Yankov
• 1929 – First aerial circumnavigation completed by the Graf Zeppelin (HRE)
• 1929 – Xierva Autogiro company founded (Aragon)

1930-1939

• 1930s? – NAL-SLC deploy first aeroplane-carrier airships.
• 1931 – First anti-airship fighters deployed (Lithuania)
• 1931 – Continental Air founded (NAL-SLC)
• 1934-1938 – Sino-Russian War
• 1938 – The Dornburg Disaster. Worldwide public opinion shifts away from aeroplanes and towards airships (Brasil)
• 1937 – Great Oriental War begins
• 1939 – Thunderstorm War (Russia/Lithuania)
• 1939 – Second Great War begins

1940-1949

• 1943-1946 - The Atlantic Air War is at its height (NAL-SLC/HRE)
• 1946 - First Air Tankers deployed (NAL-SLC)
• 1948 - Monoplane combat aircraft introduced
• 1949 - Great Oriental War ends; Second Great War ends

1950-1959

• 1956 – Wenedyk Hindenburg S.A. founded (RTC)
• 1959 – CSDS develops Raketoplan rocket-powered aeroplane (CSDS)

1960-1969

• 1960s? - Development of the Statellite
• 1961 – Karel Jagr makes the first supersonic flight (CSDS)
• 1968? - First aerostat deployed (NAL-SLC?)

1970-1979

• 1970s? - First flying fuselage aeroplanes developed
• 1973 – Gwenedd's Pride crash (Kemr)
• 1975 - Rutan Aircraft Factory founded (Alta California)
• 1976 – Fransesk Vitlesku conceives the idea of jet propulsion (CSDS)

1980-1989

• 1980s-1990s? - Development of Aerotowers (Montrei)
• 1982 - UKU develop the ZT-7Ü Qıran flying wing aeroplane (Turkestan)

1990-1999

• c. 1995 - VfR clandestinely begins preparing to launch a satellite based on GWII-era rocket designs.

2000-2009

• 2001 – Dalmatian Spretu jet fighter introduced (Mali)
• 2002 – Dragen jet fighter introduced (SR)
• 2002 – First artificial satellite launched (HRE)
• 2002 – Euro-Consortium for the exploration of space formed (Dalmatia/France/Ireland)
• circa 2003 – Aeroscrafts developed by WenHin (Montrei)
• 2004 (Feb) – TSRC formation announced (HRE/SR)
• 2004 (July) – Dalmatia withdraws from the Euro-Consortium (Dalmatia)
• 2004 (Aug) – ATOE formation announced (Japan/Louisianne)
• 2004 (Aug) – Georg Aleksandersen Gagadie and Josef Petersen Quitinga become first men in space (SR)
• 2004 (Sept) – First satellite launch by CNEL-ATOE (Louisianne)
• 2005 (Jan) – SpaceOrg consortium formed (Turkestan/MNR/Qazaqstan/Persia)
• 2005 (Dec) – Major Dorinel Sigeti becomes first Dalmatian cosmonaut (Dalmatia)
• 2007 - Cageru tandem-wing fighter introduced (Japan)
• 2009 (Apr) – SpaceOrg successfully launch first satellite (MNR)
• 2009 (July) – Boran jet flying wing introduced (Turkestan)