List of firsts in aviation (English Wikipedia)

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Guy Norris (October 1, 2020). "Will Contrails Be Hydrogen Fuel's Achilles' Heel?". Aviation Week.

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Pattison, Jo (October 1, 2009). "First to fly across the Channel". BBC News – Kent. Retrieved January 21, 2013.

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"Libya 1911: How an Italian pilot began the air war era". BBC News Website. May 10, 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2011.

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"First autogyro round-the-world trip completed by Larne pilot". BBC. June 29, 2019.
"Gyrocopter pilot Norman Surplus arrives back in Northern Ireland". August 11, 2015.
"Solar Impulse completes historic round-the-world trip", BBC News, 26 July 2016

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Needham, Joseph; Ronan, Colin A. (1978). The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4. Cambridge University Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-0-521-33873-8.
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Ryan, Craig (2003). The Pre-Astronauts: Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of Space. Naval Institute Press. pp. 40–44. ISBN 978-1-59114-748-0.
Anderson, John D. (1999). A History of Aerodynamics: And Its Impact on Flying Machines. Cambridge University Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-521-66955-9.
Howard, Fred (1988). Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers. Courier Dover Publications. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-486-40297-0.
Vivian, E. Charles (2004). A History of Aeronautics. [S.l.]: Kessinger Pub. pp. 134–135. ISBN 978-1-4191-0156-4.
Thurston, David E. (2000). The World's Most Significant and Magnificent Aircraft: Evolution of the Modern Airplane. SAE. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-7680-0537-0.
Driver, Hugh (1997). The Birth of Military Aviation: Britain, 1903–1914. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-86193-234-4.
"Month of achievement in aviation". Popular Mechanics. Hearst Magazines. August 1911. p. 350.
Hippler, Thomas (2013). Bombing the People. Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-1-107-03794-6. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
Strother, French (January 1912). "Flying Across The Continent: C. P. Rodgers And The First Aerial Trans-Continental Trip". The World's Work: A History of Our Time. Vol. XXIII. pp. 339–345. Retrieved July 10, 2009.
Poynter, Dan (1984). The Parachute Manual: A Technical Treatise on Aerodynamic Decelerators. Para Publishing. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-915516-35-3.
Wright, Robert K.; Greenwood, John T. (2007). Airborne Forces at War: From Parachute Test Platoon to the 21st Century. Naval Institute Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-59114-028-3.
Crabtree, James D. (1994). On air defense. Greenwood Publishing. p. 9. ISBN 0-275-94792-0.
Guttman, John (2009). Pusher Aces of World War I. Osprey Publishing. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-84603-417-6.
Robson, Pamela (2011). Wild Women: History's Female Rebels, Radicals and Revolutionaries. Pier 9. ISBN 978-1-74196-632-9.
Petrescu, Victoria Relly (2013). The Aviation History. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 64. ISBN 9783848266395.
Nicolaou, Stéphane (1998). Flying Boats & Seaplanes: A History from 1905. Bay View Books Ltd. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-901432-20-6.
Galdorisi, George; Phillips, Thomas (2009). Leave No Man Behind: The Saga of Combat Search and Rescue. Zenith Imprint. pp. 5–6. ISBN 978-0-7603-2392-2.
Kurter, Ajun (2009). Türk Hava Kuvvetleri Tarihi (History of Turkish Air Force, Volume 5) (in Turkish). Vol. 5. Air Force Command. p. 299.
Bishop, Chris; Chant, Chris (2004). Aircraft Carriers: The World's Greatest Naval Vessels and Their Aircraft. Zenith Imprint. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-7603-2005-1.
Bix, Amy Sue (2005). "Bessie Coleman: Race and Gender Realities Behind Aviation Dreams". In Dawson, Virginia Parker; Bowles, Mark D. (eds.). Realizing the Dream of Flight: Biographical Essays in Honor of the Centennial of Flight, 1903–2003. NASA. pp. ix, 5. OCLC 60826554.
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Bud, Robert; Warner, Deborah Jean (1998). Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 533. ISBN 978-0-8153-1561-2.
Rodger, Eugene (1990). Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctia. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 173–191. ISBN 978-1-61251-188-7.
Bonds, Ray (2003). The Illustrated Dictionary of a Century of Flight. Zenith Imprints. pp. 136–139. ISBN 978-0-7603-1555-2.
van Pelt, Michel (2012). Rocketing Into the Future: The History and Technology of Rocket Planes. Springer. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-4614-3200-5.
Pavelec, Sterling Michael (2007). The Jet Race and the Second World War. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-275-99355-9.
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Burrows, Stephen; Layton, Michael (2020). Top Secret Worcestershire. Brewin Books. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-85858-615-1.
Patrick, Michael (December 1993). "90 Years of Flight". Popular Mechanics. Vol. 170, no. 12. p. 32.

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Robert Gott (1998). "10: Further adventures" (pdf). Makers & Shakers. Heinemann Library. pp. 38–41. ISBN 978-1-86391-878-7. Retrieved June 8, 2014.

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Meyer, Robert B. (1964). First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928. Smithsonian Annals of Flight Volume 1 Number 2. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. p. 2. doi:10.5479/si.AnnalsFlight.2. hdl:10088/18672. Retrieved February 25, 2021.

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