Two years before he made his first flight, Wilbur Wright told friends, “”man won’t fly for 50 years.””
First pilot ever to fly a loop-the-loop: Lincoln Beachy, November 18, 1913 in San Diego
On February 18, 1930, a cow flew in an airplane for the
first time.
First animal to be ejected from a supersonic jet: a bear, in 1962. It parachuted safely to the earth.