1900–1945
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Cars & transportElm Farm Ollie’s flight and airborne milking demonstration
On 18 February 1930, a Guernsey cow flew to St. Louis, was milked aboard a Ford Trimotor, and supplied an unusual parachute delivery.
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Cars & transportAmelia Earhart arrives in Wales after her 1928 Atlantic crossing
On 18 June 1928, Amelia Earhart reached Wales in the floatplane Friendship. She became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane, although she had travelled as a passenger throughout the ocean leg.
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Cars & transportThe Wright brothers’ first flights: December 17, 1903
On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made four powered flights at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Orville’s first covered 120 feet in 12 seconds. Their achievement combined a pilot, engine power and sustained control in a heavier-than-air aircraft.
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Cars & transportSantos-Dumont’s Eiffel Tower circuit for the Deutsch Prize
On 19 October 1901, Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont completed a flight from Saint-Cloud around the Eiffel Tower and back in his No. 6 airship. The thirty-minute prize challenge tested whether a balloon could navigate a practical return route.
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