This timeline details the important "firsts" in the field of aviation, including the first hot air balloon flight, the first woman to pilot a plane, and other important dates.
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Famous Firsts in Aviation
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Secondary Summer Reading and Writing Enrichment Activity Packet
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Summer Reading (Grades 9-12)
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Summer Reading List -- Secondary
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Amelia Earhart's Solo Flight
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Aviation: Over and on the Sea
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Famous Firsts in Aviation
Wilbur and Orville Wright with their second powered machine. Source: Library of Congress. Orville Wright, Major John F. -
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Passenger Planes: Boeing 707
The world's first successful commercial jetliner The Boeing 707 wasn't the world's first commercial jetliner; that dist...
