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On November 28, 1896, a professor named Samuel Langley of the Smithsonian Institute managed to create drones that can fly to a height of 4,200 feet with a speed of 30 mph. Langley then asked for research funding from the U.S. Defense Department of U.S. $ 5,000 to design a manned aircraft. Two experiments carried out on October 7, 1903 and December 9, 1903 only led to failure. The first trial resulted in a broken wing aircraft without leaving the ground. While the second experiment was unable to fly planes and crashed in the Potomac River plunged. Nevertheless, for his services in the fields of aeronautics, Langley’s name immortalized as the name of the famous lab: NASA Langley.

Pause 8 days after Langley’s second trial, Kitty Hawk’s Wrights brothers made history as the first aircraft with the power machine capable of flying and reaching a height exceeding the starting pointnya. This is the first time man managed to beat gravity. Wrights brothers continue to make improvements on the findings that, like many scientists in France, Britain, Germany, Russia, Australia, and so on. However, Wright Bros. who attract attention after the riveting vibrant community in Paris. He then sold the idea to the U.S. Department of Defense. The result, shortly after the U.S. Army has some “fighters” in which the pilot throws a bomb with his hand to finish off the enemy on land.

When World War I erupted in 1929, double-winged planes are commonly encountered. Then in 1926, Charles Lindberg for the first time successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean. This is the starting point when the aircraft is treated as a means of transportation, not just a hobby or a toy as before. When World War II broke out in the 1940s, fighter aircraft are far more sophisticated. Airlines with propeller emerging. And in the 1950s, jet engines (Boeing 707) began operations and the term “jet set” or a jet transport began to be known.

In the 1960′s, the supersonic aircraft (Concorde) began operations. Unfortunately, although Russia has successfully launched its first satellite (1957) and the United States successfully land a man on the moon (1969), growth was almost stagnant in the world of aeronautics. It is true that the success of Russia and America are driven more by political factors (cold war) than the factor of technological breakthroughs to increase the welfare of mankind. It is also true that new technologies initially grew very slowly, then reached the point where innovation continues rained, and soon reached a mature stage. After that technological development was slow again. The period between these, when calculated, averaging about 40 years.