1943 The First Military Vertical Wind Tunnel at Wright Patterson Air Force (they didn't realize humans could fly in these yet!)
1957 First Artificial Satellite
1958 First Successful Satellite in the United States
1959 Strategic Army Corps Parachute Team - formed by 13 military paratroopers
1962 Golden Knights - Strategic Army Corps Parachute Team officially adopts their new nickname
1958 Nasa Space Act
1959 Astronauts - The first American astronauts were chosen
1962 First Interplanetary Probe
1962 First American in Orbit
1967 Concorde Jet Aircraft
1968 Boeing 747
1964 First Human Vertical Wind Tunnel Flight at Wright Patterson A.F.B.
1969 First Manned Lunar Landing
1976 First Spacecraft to operate on Mars
1977 Cheryl Stearns - The first woman on the Golden Knights. The team entertains their 100 millionth spectator
1978/1979 Canadian Jean St. Jermain builds Levitationarium (aka VWT) Known to be the FIRST commercially operated Bodyflight Facility.
1981 FlyAway Indoor Skydiving - Construction begins on two facilities Las Vegas Nevada and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
1982 FlyAway Indoor Skydiving Opens to public with both locations, Las Vegas opened shortly before Pigeon Forge, TN.
1983 First Spacecraft to leave our Solar System
1984 Vertical Wind Tunnel Corporation begins R&D
1990 FlyAway Indoor Skydiving of Osaka,Japan opens to the public
1990 Airofly - Top of Tampa - First Tunnel Competition in the U.S.
1991 Aerodium of Oberglatt Switzerland Outdoor Facility
1991 American Dream Flying Machine Portable Facility becomes operational
1993 DynaSoar Portable Wind Tunnel Introduced
1995 SkyFun Of Florida begins design on New Vertical Wind Tunnel
1997 DynaSoar Transfers Ownership To J.D.L Inc. Renamed Powerflyte.
1997 Xtreme Air Portable Wind Tunnel becomes operational
1998 SkyVenture Of Florida Opens to the public
1998 Egyptian Military Builds a Vertical Wind Tunnel to Aid in Training
1999 First Non Stop Flight around the World in a Balloon

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