PIONIERE
 
 
 
 
 

Pioneer Aircraft designers/builders whose aeroplanes
performed fully controllable flights:


1.   Wright brothers
2.   Santos Dumont
3.   Voisin brothers
4.   Louis Bl+AOk-riot
5.   Ellehammer
6.   Glenn Curtiss
7.   A. Levavasseur
8.   Ferdinant Ferber
9.   A.V. Roe
10. H. Farman
11. F. Cody
12. Eduardo Rusjan
13. Goupy
14. Louis Breguet
15. Aristide Faccioli
16. Igo Etrich
17. Odier-Vendome
18. Zodiac
19. Delage-Newport
20. Sir Geoffrey de Havilland
21. Antony Fokker
22. Lior+AOk-
23. Tatin-Paulhan
24. F. D'Arbesio
25. Hanriot
26. A. Chiribiri
27. Louis B+AOk-chereau
28. L.&R. Morane/R.Saulnier
29. Louis Borel
30. T.O.M. Sopwith/F.Sigrist
31. Pateras / Guidoni		 USA
France
France
France
Denmark
USA
France
France
Great Britain
France
USA-England
Slovenia-Austria
France
France
Italy
Austria
France
France
France
Great Britain
Holland-Germany
France
France
Italy
France
Italy
France
France
France
Great Britain
Italy		 Dec. 1903
Nov. 1906
Oct. 1907
Nov. 1907
June 1908
July 1908
Oct. 1908
1908
July 1909
Aug. 1909
Aug. 1909
Nov. 1909
1909
1909
Dec. 1909
1910
1910
1910
1910
Dec. 1910
May 1911
1911
1911
Oct. 1911
1911
July 1912
1912
1912
1913
1913
1914		 Wright Flyer
Santos Dumont "14 bis"
Voisin
Bl+AOk-riot VII
Ellehammer IV
"Golden Flyer"
"Antoinette"
Ferber no. 9 Biplane
Roe Triplane
Farman III
Cody Biplane
"EDA I"
Goupy Biplane
Breguet I
Faccioli no. 3 Biplane
Etrich "Taube"
Odier-Vendome Biplane
Zodiac "Albatros
Niewport Monoplane
D.H. Biplane no. 2
Fokker "Spin"
Lior+AOk- Monoplane
"Torpille" Pusher Monoplane
Asteria no. 2
Henriot Trainer Monoplane
Chiribiri no. 5 Monoplane
Deperdussin "Course"
Morane-Saulnier "G"
Borel Monoplane
Sopwith "Tabloid" fighter/bomber
P./G. "IDRO" Torpedo plane

 
Pioneer aircraft which failed to make sustained controllable flights longer than 60 metres have been omitted from this list, such as the Faccioli biplane no. 1 of dec. 1908 which crashed immediately after take-off or the Coanda compressed air "jet"-propelled biplane never took-off.