This Saturday marks 90 years since aviator Charles Lindbergh made his historic first nonstop solo transatlantic flight from New York to Paris aboard the Spirit Of St. Louis. The Onion takes a look back at the most important milestones in the history of aviation.
150,000,000 B.C.
Birds seem to have it down pretty well
1485
Leonardo da Vinci draws detailed sketch of an airline passenger
1709
Bartolomeu de Gusmão designs an airship similar to a modern hot air balloon that is immediately confiscated by his Algebra teacher
1873-1898
Inclement weather delays
1903
Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first flight at Kitty Hawk gives hope that humans might one day have the technology to leave North Carolina
1909
The first flight by a commercial airline is followed moments later by the first public apology by a commercial airline
1914
Aviation engineers make breakthrough discovery that these things can also be used to kill people
1944
Oklahoma A&M basketball player Bob Kurland becomes the first person to dunk
1980
Spirit Airlines launches with the goal of bringing the glamour of bus travel to the air
2102
Baby cries throughout entire flight from Tampa to Mars