Great Advances in the Human Endeavor of Flight

15th Cent.: Leonardo da Vinci draws up plans for a heavier-than-air flying machine.

1903: The Wright Brothers successfully fly at Kittyhawk.

1927: Charles Lindbergh flies nonstop across the Atlantic.

1961: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly into outer space.

2005: College students think they've engineered the perfect paper airplane. The Times of London is on the scene.

Indexed by tags science, engineering, paper, airplane, England, students.

Photo credits: Bathing Beauty Getting into Early Aircraft, Harry Mellon Rhoads, 1910, Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library.