Timeline of aviation

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at:1884 text: 1st fully controllable free flight
at:1890 text: Ader Éole
at:1900 text: 1st Zeppelin
from:1901 till:1906 shift:100 text: 1st airplanes
at:1903 text: Wright Flyer
from:1914 till:1917 shift:250 text: World War I
at:1919 text: 1st nonstop Atlantic crossing
at:1919 shift:200 text: First airline is founded
at:1927 text: 1st solo nonstop Atlantic crossing
at:1937 text: Hindenburg disaster
from:1939 till:1945 shift:250 text: World War II
from:1940 till:1941 shift:240 text: The Blitz
from:1940 till:1941 shift:130 text: Battle of Britain
at:1940 text: Battle of Toranto
at:1944 text: V-2 rocket
at:1947 text: Sound barrier broken
at:1952 text: 1st commercial jet airliner
at:1957 shift:15,-6 text: Sputnik (1st artificial satellite)
from:1957 till:1975 shift:150 text: Space Race
at:1958 shift:15,0 text: Boeing 707
at:1961 text: 1st manned space mission
at:1969 text: Apollo 11 (moon landing)
at:1976 text: Concorde
at:1979 text: 1st human-powered crossing of English Channel
at:1986 text: 1st nonstop global circumnavigation