early aviation
Pioneering flight days
Early aviation refers to the pioneering period of powered flight, roughly from the Wright brothers' 1903 success through World War I or the 1920s.
The phrase encompasses the experimental aircraft, daring pilots, and rapid technological advances of that era: She collects early aviation memorabilia.
Early aviation evokes biplanes, leather helmets, and barnstormers.
- biplaneAircraft with two wing levels
- Wright brothersFirst airplane builders
- Kitty HawkHistoric Carolina flight site
- monoplaneSingle-wing aircraft
- barnstormingTouring rural areas performing
flying circus · propeller · Orville Wright · Amelia Earhart · solo flight · rotary engine · Red Baron · air race · crash landing · Wilbur Wright · Charles Lindbergh · fuselage · powered flight · landing gear · open cockpit · flight goggles · airfoil · rudder
early aviationjet age
Era of turbine-powered flight
space age · supersonic flight · jet propulsion · hypersonic flight · jumbo jets
early aviationstealth technology
Sensor-evading military engineering
jet propulsion · supersonic flight · hypersonic flight · drone technology · autonomous flight