Noha307: Create Page with Introduction & Table Sections – Copied from personal website design in Microsoft Expression Web 4, based on http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=67179

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Create Page with Introduction & Table Sections – Copied from personal website design in Microsoft Expression Web 4, based on http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=67179

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== Introduction ==
For more discussion of this topic, check out the [http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=67179 Warbird Information Exchange thread]. There is also a [http://www.sporcle.com/games/Noha307/first-aircraft Sporcle quiz] based on this information.

== Table ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Date
! Milestone
! Aircraft
! Identity
|-
|
| First aircraft designed as a turboprop
| Varga RMI-1 X/H
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|-
|
| First aircraft to fly
| Wright Flyer
|
|-
|
| First turbojet
| Heinkel He 178
|
|-
|
| First turboprop aircraft to fly
| Gloster Meteor
|
|-
|
| First turboshaft helicopter
| Kaman K-225
|
|-
|
| First four engine aircraft
| Sikorsky Russky Vityaz
|
|-
|
| First supersonic transport
| Tupolev Tu-144
|
|-
|
| First practical helicopter
| Focke-Wulf Fw 61
|
|-
|
| First mass produced helicopter
| Sikorsky R-4
|
|-
|
| First widebody airliner
| Boeing 747
|
|-
|
| First commercial jet airliner
| Vickers Type 618 Nene-Viking
|
|-
|
| First commercial jet airliner to enter service
| de Havilland Comet
|
|-
|
| First operational jet fighter
| Messerschmitt Me 262
|
|-
|
| First pressurized aircraft
| Airco DH.9A
|
|-
|
| First pressurized airliner
| Renard R.35
|
|-
|
| First pressurized airliner to enter service
| Boeing 307
|
|-
|
| First business jet
| Lockheed JetStar
|
|-
|
| First light business jet
| Learjet 23
|
|-
|
| First jet bomber
| Arado 234
|
|-
|
| First airplane to takeoff and land on a ship
| Curtiss Model D
|
|-
|
| First production airplane
| Santos-Dumont Demoiselle
|
|-
|
| First all metal aircraft
| A Vlaicu III
|
|-
|
| First practical all metal aircraft
| Junkers J 1
|
|-
|
| First production turboprop
| Vickers Viscount
|
|-
|
| First seaplane
| Fabre Hydravion
|
|-
|
| First production seaplane
| Felixstowe F.2
|
|-
|
| First jet seaplane
| Saunders-Roe SR.A/1
|
|-
|
| First tandem rotor helicopter
| P-V Engineering Forum XHRP-X
|
|-
|
| First intermeshing rotor helicopter
| Flettner Fl 265
|
|-
|
| First coaxial rotor helicopter
| D'Ascanio-Trojani D'AT3
|
|-
|
| First all fly-by-wire aircraft
| Lunar Landing Training Vehicle
|
|-
|
| First all digital fly-by-wire aircraft
| Vought F-8 Crusader
|
|-
|
| First fly-by-wire commercial airliner
| Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde
|
|-
|
| First digital fly-by-wire commercial airliner
| Airbus A320
|
|-
|
| First production fly-by-optics aircraft
| Kawasaki P-1
|
|-
|
| First aircraft with radar
| Avro Anson
|
|-
|
| First multi-engine aircraft with variable pitch propellers
| Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI
|
|-
|
| First aircraft with a supercharged engine
| Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI
|
|-
|
| First aircraft with an ejection seat
| Heinkel 280
|
|-
|
| First aircraft with an enclosed cockpit
| Avro Type F
|
|-
|
| First aircraft with a variable pitch propeller
| British Army Dirigible No 1/Nulli Secundus
|
|-
|
| First aircraft with a constant speed propeller
| Gloster Grebe
|
|-
|
| First aircraft with retractable landing gear
| Wiencziers Renneindecker
|
|-
|
| First rocket powered aircraft
| Lippisch Ente
|
|-
|
| First purpose built rocket powered aircraft
| Opel RAK.1
|
|-
|
| First solely liquid fueled rocket powered aircraft
| Heinkel He 176
|
|-
|
| First airplane with a turbocharged engine
| LePere LUSAC-11
|
|-
|
| First airplane to carry an air-to-air rocket
| Nieuport 11
|
|-
|
| First airplane to carry an air-to-air missile
| Fock-Wulf Fw 190
|
|-
|
| First production fighter to be equipped for in flight refueling
| Republic F-84 Thunderjet
|
|-
|
| First airplane with variable sweep wings
| Westland-Hill Pterodactyl IV
|
|-
|
| First production airplane with variable sweep wings
| General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark
|
|-
|
| First airplane with an afterburner
| Gloster Meteor I
|
|-
|
| First airplane with a high bypass turbofan engine
| Lockheed C-5 Galaxy
|
|-
|
| First production airplane with a turbofan engine
| Handley Page Victor B.2
|
|-
|
| First airplane with folding wings
| Short S.41
|
|-
|
| First aircraft with a two stage supercharger
| Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat
|
|-
|
| First aircraft with an autopilot
| Curtiss C-2
|
|-
|
| First jet aircraft with thrust vectoring
| Gloster Meteor
|
|-
|
| First aircraft with a supercharged engine to enter service
| Armstrong Whitworth Siskin IIIA
|
|-
|
| First airplane with jet engine thrust reversers
| Vickers Wellington
|
|-
|
| First airplane with push-pull configuration
| Fokker K.I
|
|-
|
| First airplane with an operational air-to-air radar
| Bristol Blenheim
|
|-
|
| First production civil airplane with a fully supercritical wing
| Dassault Falcon 50
|
|-
|
| First airplane with a supercritical wing
| North American T-2 Buckeye
|
|}

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