Aviation History

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• Who completed the first sustained, controlled, powered airplane flight in 1903?
• Which aircraft inaugurated the world's first regular commercial jet passenger service in 1952?
• What was the name of the aircraft used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo transatlantic flight?
• Which supersonic passenger aircraft began scheduled commercial service in 1976?
• The Wright brothers made their first powered, controlled flight at Kitty Hawk on [____].
• Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in [____].
• The Boeing 747 entered commercial service with Pan Am in [____].
• The first successful powered flight by a jet aircraft was made by the German Heinkel [____] in 1939.