Thanks to planes like this and the expansive world of aviation, we’ve been able to travel around the world safely and in style.

Wars have been won with the use of these flying machines. And aid has been delivered around the world when humanity has faced epic disasters. Since 1903, when Wilbur and Orville Wright successfully invented the first airplane, you won’t believe how far we’ve come since then!

But, great flight success was not achieved without great sacrifices, from the Spruce Goose to the Beluga Airbus, or the monster sitting on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Let’s meet them all.

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