Infographic: The greatest turning points in aviation Excellent Graphics)

BBC ^ | 19 January 2015

[Fiji Hill]

They also left out the first transatlantic flight, made by a US Navy NC-4 flying boat, in 1919.

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They didn’t seem to even want to try and hide their agenda!

That’s rather brash.

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Oh...I missed that! My apologies.

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I think there are still a few of them flying around somewhere!

[Idaho_Cowboy]

I looked carefully and didn’t see Lindburgh on that chart...maybe i wasn’t looking in the right place? It was during the 1920’s right?

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First thing I noticed on this chart was his absence. Year was 1927, they folded the time-line and left a space in the right area. I suspect they simply forgot to add him to the chart.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

For those interested:

Deperdussin Monocoque

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Guess he wasn’t so lucky after all...ending up on the fold.

[liberty_lvr]

They ignored Lindburgh but mention Earhart doing the same thing later... weird...

Not at all, perfectly in line with the British penchant for Political Correctness run amok (they noted Earhart's crossing) and English supremacy in all things (they recorded Alcock & Brown's crossing in 1919 even though it barely made a ripple in popular culture, while Lindberg's crossing catapulted aviation into the every-day lexicon).

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Looks good!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Supermarine Spitfire is there in 1936.

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Wow...there are two things I missed...and I thought i had looked very carefully. It might be the format, as I went further down the line it seemed to get harder to read.

Or maybe I need to get my eyes checked.

In any case Lindbergh wasn’t there, and that is what i found really strange!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I saw text for first trans Atlantic flight in 1922.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From wikipedia:

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Alcock and Brown landed in Ireland 1919. Their flight paved the way for commercial transatlantic aviation.

[P.O.E.]

Aviation just a way to get to the card game at Joe Rockhead’s garage and back in time before the wives find out.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I think there are still a few of them flying around somewhere!

Providence & Boston Airlines that files out of Hyannis, MA has a couple. Man oh man are they loud! I love watching them take off. The end of the airstrip is right next to the road. A nice view.

[spokeshave]

Ha...they missed English Engineer F. W. Lanchester who discovered the mathematical equations of flight (in the late 1890's)way before the Wright Bros....

Frederick W. Lanchester, a well-known British automative engineer, had composed a circulation theory of sustenation as early as 1894.

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Yes...I saw that one too.

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I think what made Lindbergh different was that it was SOLO.

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I flew a biplane over the Cape. WONDERFUL experience.

[bigbob]

and the conception of the Starship Enterprise is...where?