The flight of Icarus (c. 800 B.C.) -- Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon (1783) -- French equestrian balloon (1798) -- The Minerva (1803) -- Ornithopter (1903) -- The Wright brothers (1903) -- Marquis d'Equevilley's multiplane (1908) -- Lz 127 Graf Zeppelin (1928) -- Piasecki vz-8p airgeep (1958) -- Bell rocket belt (1961) -- The Concorde 001 (1969) -- Lockheed f-117a nighthawk (1982) -- Space Shuttle Columbia sts-109 (2002).