1. The History of Flight By Ashleigh Parlevliet

2. c. 1485 – c. 1513 Leonardo da Vinci  Designed an ornithopter with control surfaces. ornithopter  Sketches flying machines, such as helicopters.

3. November 21, 1783 First Manned Flight (Hot Air Balloon)  Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes  25 minutes

4. 1849 Sir George Cayley’s Glider  Launched a 10-year- old boy in a small glider being towed by a team of people running down a hill.

5. 24 th September, 1852 First Airship  Henri Giffard flies a total of 27km from the Paris Hippodrome to Trappes.  Reaches a top speed of 10km/h

6. 17 th December, 1903 First Controlled, Powered Flight  Orville and Wilbur Wright make flights at Kitty Hawk, in North Carolina.  Orville’s flight flies 37m in 12 seconds.  Wilbur’s flight flies 260m in 59 seconds.

7. 14 th September, 1939 First Mass-Produced Helicopter  Sikorsky VS-300  Single engine helicopter

8. 18 th July, 1942 First Flight Under Jet Power  Messerschmitt ME 262  First operational jet- powered fighter aircraft

9. 14 th October, 1947 First Supersonic Flight  US. Airforce Captain Chuck Yeager  The rocket powered Bell X-1 flew past the speed of sound in the first controlled, supersonic, level flight.  Achieved Mach 1.06, new world air speed record of 1,299km/h.

10. 27 th July, 1949 First Jet Airliner  De Havilland Comet  At Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

11. 4 th October, 1957 First Artificial Satellite  Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1  Launched into orbit

12. 9 th February, 1969 First Wide-Bodied Jet Airliner  Boeing 747  Biggest jet airliner

13. 20 th July, 1969 First Manned Moon Landing  Apollo spacecraft  Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the moon.

14. 12 th April, 1981 First Reusable Manned Aircraft  US Space Shuttle Columbia  Glided down 2 days later

15. 19 th March, 1989 First Tilt-rotor Aircraft  V-22 Osprey  US Department of Defence

16. 1 st March, 1999 First ATW Balloon Flight  Breitling Orbiter 3  Non-stop around the world  Completed on 19 th March  New distance record of 40,804 km

17. 18 th January, 2005 World’s Biggest Airliner  Airbus A380  Unveiled in France  Double-Deck, wide body, four engine jet airliner

18. 25 th March, 2006 Scramjet Engine Test  Hyshot 3  Tested successfully at Woomera, Australia  Designed to fly 7 times the speed of sound

19. Activities  http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/lessonplans/flight.html http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/lessonplans/flight.html  http://www.grc.nasa.g ov/WWW/k- 12/aeroact.htm http://www.grc.nasa.g ov/WWW/k- 12/aeroact.htm  http://scdolinski.weebly.com/ http://scdolinski.weebly.com/  http://www.ece.gov.nt. ca/files/Early- Childhood/career- development/Gr%206% 20Flight_Space.pdf http://www.ece.gov.nt. ca/files/Early- Childhood/career- development/Gr%206% 20Flight_Space.pdf