1. FIRST FLIGHTS IN OTTOMANS 1632 Lagari Hasan had attempted to fly. Ascending with rocket in İstanbul

2. Lagari Hasan was the first man to make perpendicular flight in the 17.century.He is counted to be the ancestor of rocketing, he succeeded in landing off with a simple air rocket which has a resorvoir full of gunpowder.He had presented his flight on the birthday of Sultan IV.Murat’s daughter.It had been seen that he had taken off about 300 mt and hung upon air for 20 seconds.Thanks to the wings that were attached to him,he was able to land on softly to the Bosphorus. Lagari Hasan

3. 1632 Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi his trasspassing through the Bosphorus,

4. He is one of the Turkish scholars who lived in Ottoman Age in the 17.century. He was born in 1609 in İstanbul.In 1632,he flew through the Bosphorus for 3358 mt on a windy day by wearing a wing that looked like feathers and he landed off the ground that is nearly 4000 mt away where he landed off. He was considerate the most important scholar in aviation. Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi

5. One of the scene in the film of “istanbul under my wings”

6. 2-5 December 1909 Belgian Baron de Cartes nose-dived into the ground after one hour flight.

7. 11 December 1909 French Louis Bleriot hit a house when landing off.

8. First planes that were bought 15 M arch 1912 Deperdussin (F rench made ) Two pieces of this trademark were purchased both of them were destroyed from the storm and failed to fly.

9. 26 April 1912 Rep 20 (F rench made ) ( Turkish flagged first plane.Captain Fesa was the first plane to use plane on Ottoman soils.

10. Republic Period Yeşilköy, İstanbul (1912 & 1953) Turkish Airways

11. Diyarbakır Airport (1931)

12. Güvercinlik, Ankara Airport(1935)

13. İnönü, Eskişehir Airport (1936)

14. Esenboğa, Ankara İnternational Airport(1955)

15. Statistics of aviation transportation number of civil airports : 52 2013 ınternational line passenger number : 73.393.414 2013 domestic line passenger number : 76.138.315 2013 total passenger number : 149.571.729 Aviation Equipments. : In airway enterprises 332 In airbus enterprises 247 General aviation 217 Balloon 106 In agricultural enterprises 69 Private business jets 98 T otal 1069

16. Sabiha Gökçen (1913-2001) : First woman pilot of Turkey

17. Vecihi Hürkuş (1896 - 1969),Turkish noncomissioner officer and engineer.He is one of the most important names in the history of Turkish Aviaton.

18. Vecihi Hürkuş who established the first private plane factory,started to produce in1925. He produced ; 1925 K-VI one –engined discovery, 1930 K-XIV one-engined training 1933 K-XIVA Training 1933 K-XVI Training 1933 K-XVI Passenger plane 1934 K-XIVD Marine Training plane

19. Turkey has been conducting his space studies by means of Space Technologies Research Instıtute ın Tübitak.

20. Turkey has a satellite in space and its number of satellite will be rised from 4 to 6 by the end of the year. The fifth satellite of Turkey TÜRKSAT-4A was launched from Baykonur space base on 14 February.The satellite was cooperatively produced by Turkish and Japanese engineers and it has a new tech called “ka bant” which enables Turkish tv and radio channels to broadcast to Africa after Europe and Asia.

21. It is predicted that TÜRKSAT 6A satellite will be launched in 2019 and TÜRKSAT 5A in 2017. Turkey will cover South America,North America,Europe,Asia and Africa also the west Australia by means of its 7 satellite. Therefore it will have the opportunity of connecting the 91 per cent of world’s population through the agency of satellites.