Sentences with phrase «powered airplane flight»

Aviation emissions now account for about three percent of annual CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, more than a century since Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered airplane flight.

It's the Kitty Hawk with which the Wright brothers made the first controlled, powered airplane flight in North Carolina in 1903.

Not exact matches

In addition to not needing to refuel between flights, a nuclear - powered airplane in theory would not pollute the environment as long as the radioactive waste from its reactor could be contained (the Air Force's project never progressed far enough to come up with a practical way to address this).

World's first manned airplane powered by hydrogen takes flight U.S. aircraft maker Boeing announced this week that it had completed the world's first manned flights in an airplane powered by pollution - free hydrogen.

On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, achieved the first controlled, powered flight in an airplane.

Japan Prepares to Finally Join Electric Flight Ranks Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency or JAXA is preparing to make the first manned test flights of an all - electric, battery - powered airplane starting in February.