Introduction - The Dream of Flight 1 Brother Elmer - Trusting a Pair of Home-Made Wings (England, Eleventh Century) 5 A Sheep, a Cockerel and a Duck - The First Passengers (France, 1783) 11 George Cayley - 'I'm Too Old to Fly, Send That Child Up Instead' (England, 1849) 17 Ferdinand von Zeppelin - The World's First Passenger Airline (Germany, 1900) 23 The Wright Brothers - The First Real Aeroplane (US, 1903) 29 Louis Blériot - Crossing the English Channel (France-England, 1909) 35 Dogfight - Aeroplanes Go into Battle (Mexico, 1913) 41 Katherine Stinson - Looping the Loop in a Flying Circus (US, 1915) 47 Queen Bess - The First Black Woman Pilot (France, 1921) 53 Alan Cobham - To Australia and Back Again (1926) 59 Charles Lindbergh - Alone Above the Atlantic (Atlantic Ocean, 1927) 67 Seaplanes - The Need for Speed (Italy, 1927) 73 The TsAGI 1-EA - The First Helicopter Lifts Off (Russia, 1932) 79 Douglas Douglas-Hamilton - A Daring Flight Over Everest (Nepal, 1933) 85 Amelia Earhart - Vanishing Without a Trace (Pacific Ocean, 1937) 91 Empire C-Class - Crash of a Flying Giant (Belgian Congo, 1939) 97 The Attagirls - 'I Flew 400 Spitfires' (UK, 1940) 105 Night Witches - The First Female Fighter Pilots (Russia, 1941) 111 Colditz Cock - An Incredible Escape Attempt (Germany, 1944) 117 Lothar Sieber - The Tragic Human Firework (Germany, 1945) 125 Chuck Yeager - Flying Faster Than a Bullet (US, 1947) 131 The de Havilland Comet - The Beginning of the Jet Age (UK, 1952) 137 Gary Powers - Spies in the Sky (US, 1956) 143 Yuri Gagarin - The First Man in Space (Russia, 1961) 151 Alan Pollock - A Birthday Surprise for London (England, 1968) 157 Concorde - Fast, Faster, Fastest (UK/France, 1969) 163 The Saturn V Rockets - Walking on the Moon (Outer Space, 1969) 169 The Northrop-Grumman B-2 Spirit - Now You See Us, Now You Don't (US, 1977) 177 SpaceShipOne - Joyrides to the Stars (US, 2003) 183 Epilogue - Going Green 189.