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History of Flight

Did You Know?

  • that Charles Lindburgh landed in Joplin in a field on west 7th street. - (check site below)
  • that the first airplane using aluminum for its fuselage was made in Joplin. -  (Joplin-Monett site below) 
  • that the first airplane engine made of aluminum was constructed in Joplin. - (Joplin-Monett site below)
  • that a famous astronaut is from Carthage Missouri.
  • that Joplin has manufacturers that make items for air and space use.
Aviation History Timeline

1783 - Montgolfier Brothers construct the first lighter-than-air vehicle (a balloon)
1900 - Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's airship flies
1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. is born on Feb. 4
1903 - 
Orville and Wilbur Wright  fly  first successful self-propelled airplane
1906 - Anne Morrow born June 20
1908 -
Joplin,  Monett  With  other great links from amazing local stories
1909 - 
Louis Bleriot crosses English Channel in a monoplane
1911 - How
Neosho Airport got it's  Name?
1909 - 
Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first licensed female pilot
1913 - Salim Ilkucan crosses Sea of Marmar  ahieving the longest over-sea flight in a double-plane
1917 - 
AVIATRIX  Lands in Joplin
1918 - United States Post Office establishes airmail  service
1920 - Lindbergh enrolls in the University of  Wisconsin as an engineering student
1922 -
Bessie Coleman becomes the  first licensed African-American aviator in the world
1922 - Lindbergh leaves college in February to become flying student at Nebraska Standard  Aircraft Corporation;  makes first flight, Apr. 9
1923 - Lindbergh buys first plane, a  war-surplus Curtiss Jenny; goes barnstorming
1924 - Lindbergh enlists as a  U.S. Army Flying cadet
1924 - 
First  flight around the world
1926 - Lindbergh makes his  first  Chicago-to-St. Louis airmail  flight
1926 - Air Commerce Act marks first federal attempt  to set safety regulations for civil aeronautics and requires the registration  and licensing of pilots and planes
1927 - Charles Lindbergh makes first solo,  nonstop transatlantic flight
1928 - Anne Spencer Morrow graduates from Smith  College
1929 - Charles Lindbergh and Anne Spencer Morrow marry
1930 - Anne  Morrow Lindbergh becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United  States
1931 - Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh survey potential commercial  air routes from the U.S. to the Orient via Canada, Alaska and Russia
1932 -
Amelia  Earhart  becomes  the first female pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean
1933 - Boeing 247 is  built -
Lindbergh's Land in Joplin
1933 - Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh survey North and South Atlantic air  routes
1934 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh is awarded Hubbard Gold Medal for  accomplishments in 40,000 miles of exploratory fying
1937 - Zeppelin  Hindenburg burns
1942 -
Tuskegee Airmen all-Black 99th  Fighter Squadron forms
1946 - Radar bounces off the moon for the first  time
1947 -
The sound barrier is broken by  Chuck Yeager
1950s - Technologies such as long-range missiles, computer  systems, electronic controls, combustion chemistry, and new composite structures made possible by the aerospace industry
1953 - Jacquelin Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier
1954 - Lindbergh is appointed to rank  of brigadier general; awarded Pulitzer Prize 
1955 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh's book, Gift from the Sea, is published
1958 - The  first American satellite to be placed in orbit around the Earth, "Explorer 1",  is launched
1959 -
NASA selects its first seven astronauts
1961 - Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space
1966-72 - Charles Lindbergh serves on World Wildlife Fund Board of Trustees
1969 - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the
first persons to walk on the  moon
1971 - NASA's Mariner 9 orbits Mars, becoming the  first spacecraft to orbit another planet
1971 - The first time a golf ball is hit on the moon
1971 - Boeing 747 makes its first commercial flight from New  York to London
1972 - NASA announces the 
shuttle program
1974 - Charles Lindbergh dies in Maui, Hawaii, on August 26, buried at Kipahulu
1976 - Concorde flies
1977 - The Charles A. Lindbergh Fund is created
1978 - NASA selects  its first group of women astronauts
1981 -
First Space Shuttle flight
1983 - Sally Ride, the first American female  astronaut, becomes the first U.S. woman to go up in space on the  Space Shuttle Challenger
1986 - Challenger Space Shuttle explodes shortly  after takeoff, all seven crew members die
1994 - The Charles A. Lindbergh  Fund becomes The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
1996 - Anne  Morrow Lindbergh is inducted into The National Women's Hall of Fame
2001 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh dies in Vermont, on February 7
2002 - The Charles A.  and. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation celebrates its 25th Anniversary; 75th  Anniversary Celebrations of the "Spirit of St. Louis" flight are planned around the country
2003 - Aviation celebrates its first century
2004 - Oct. 4,
Burt Rutan X  Team for the first private  manned spacecraft to exceed an altitude of 328,000 feet twice within a 14 day period. The prize was modeled after the Orteig Prize.
2010 - July 7-8,
Bertrand  Piccard and his Solar Impulse team make aviation history by flying more than 24 consecutive hours non-stop in a solar airplane.

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