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Aerospace History Timeline

This chronicle provides a clear, compact overview of aerospace's rapid development since Otto Lilienthal's first successful glider flight. As well as listing the main breakthroughs all over the world, it also includes milestones of the German aerospace industry's history and the maiden flights of leading German aircraft. The timeline shows just how closely connected German aerospace industry has always been with the ups and downs of German history.
 
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The Zeppelin Becomes a Means of Transport The Concorde Starts Scheduled Service Heos and Azur Arianespace’s Rocket Transporter Otto Lilienthal – German Aeronautical Pioneer The Wright Brothers’ First Powered Airplane Flight Blériot Flies Across the English Channel August Euler Receives Pilot’s License No. 1 The Successful Etrich Taube Hugo Junkers’ All-metal Aircraft Hugo Junkers’ All-metal Aircraft Hugo Junkers’ All-metal Aircraft Ernst Heinkel’s Powerful Aircraft Ernst Heinkel’s Powerful Aircraft Ernst Heinkel’s Powerful Aircraft Claude Dornier and his Flying Boats Willy Messerschmitt’s World Record Aircraft Willy Messerschmitt’s World Record Aircraft Willy Messerschmitt’s World Record Aircraft Willy Messerschmitt’s World Record Aircraft Willy Messerschmitt’s World Record Aircraft Brits Cross the Atlantic Lindbergh Flies from New York to Paris Köhl’s Transatlantic Flight – and his Refusal to Give up LuftHansa is Born in Berlin Berlin–New York on the FW-200 Condor The Belated Start of the New Lufthansa The Jet Age Begins in Rostock The X-1 Breaks the Sound Barrier ‘Concordski’: The Tu-144 Goddard’s Liquid-Propelled Rockets From the A-4 to the Moon Rocket A Satellite Named Sputnik Trailblazer Hans Grade DLR: A Cofounder of IATA KLM – The Flying Dutchman Oberth’s Route to Interplanetary Space Albatros Builds Cabin Biplanes The Large Rohrbach Roland Henrich Focke: Father of the Helicopter The Douglas Skyrocket Flies at Twice the Speed of Sound The First Postwar Do27 Interflug Replaces Lufthansa in East Germany ‘Technosopher’ Ludwig Bölkow The Baade 152 – the First German Civil Jet Yuri Gagarin: The First Man in Space The VJ-101: The First German VTOL Plane The VAK-191B VTOL Project The Bo105 Helicopter The Do31 VTOL Plane Boeing 747: 320 Tons Take Off The First Lunar Landing The VFW 614 ‘Whispering Jet’ West Germany Pushes Ahead with the Airbus Airbus A380 to Start Regular Service in 2006 Airbus Airbus Airbus Airbus Airbus Eurocopter The Dornier Works The Dornier Works Dornier after 1945 EADS The Tornado – a Multi-Role Combat Aircraft The Eurofighter: Europe’s Powerful Trump Tiger and NH90: Military Helicopters for Europe The Flying Corps is Born
 
 


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