The People Behind the Way We Live
Do you know how the inventions you use every day really came to be?
Air travel
1903
Orville and Wilbur Wright conduct first sustained flight.
1927
Charles A. Lindbergh completes first solo, nonstop trans-Atlantic flight.
1933
A modern airliner, Boeing 247, flies for the first time.
1939
Germany’s Heinkel 178 is the first fully jet-propelled aircraft to fly.
1949
World’s first commercial jet airliner, the DH 106 Comet, takes its first flight.
1957
The Boeing 707 offers a new level of comfort and safety.
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