
Historic: Orville Wright is at the controls of the Wright Flyer as his brother, Wilbur Wright, looks on during the plane´s first flight at Kitty Hawk, 1903.

Scary: Early aviator Louis Paulhan flying a Farman biplane over Los Angeles to set a new altitude record of 4,164 feet and a new endurance record of 1 hour 40 minutes and 40 seconds, circa January 1910.

Ground-breaking: The very first plane to be flown by an Englishman in 1909, designed by Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe OBE

Ground-breaking: The very first plane to be flown by an Englishman in 1909, designed by Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe OBE.

1921: Three men attempt to launch an aeroplane with six sets of wings for maximum uplift in Washington DC.

Brave: Glenn Curtiss (left) and Lt. Theodore Ellyson in the Curtiss A-1 Triad amphibian, the first U.S. Navy plane.