Flight Archive

On This Day In History: Amelia Earhart’s First Solo Ocean Flight – On Jan 11, 1935

AncientPages.com | January 11, 2017

AncientPages.com - On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart became the first aviator to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, California. Earhart completed a 2,400-mile trip from Wheeler

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On This Day In History: Admiral Richard E. Byrd Made His First Flight Over The South Pole – On Nov 29, 1929

AncientPages.com | November 29, 2016

AncientPages.com - On November 29, 1929, U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd led the first expedition to fly over the South Pole. In the fall of 1928, Byrd and a

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On This Day In History: First Experimental Hydrogen-Filled Balloon Reaches A 900m Altitude – On August 27, 1783

AncientPages.com | August 27, 2016

AncientPages.com - On August 27, 1783, the first experimental hydrogen-filled balloon left Champs de Mars, Paris. The balloon had 13ft (4m) in diameter and was made of rubber-coated silk. The

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On This Day In History: Unbelievable Flight Took Place – On Apr 28, 1939

AncientPages.com | April 28, 2016

AncientPages.com - Two pilots Vladimir Kokkinaki and Mikhail Gordienko took off on a mission to fly between Moscow and America in the shortest possible time. The plane developed for

Pieter Brueghel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (c. 1558)

The Ancient ‘Flying Machines’ Of Icarus and Daedalus

AncientPages.com | August 16, 2014

Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com - The legend of Icarus and Daedalus, written by the Roman poet Ovid in his work Metamorphoses, is today considered to be a colorful legend,