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• subsequently succeeded in crossing the English Channel on his device on 4 August 2019, covering
• the 35-kilometre (22 mi) journey from Sangatte in northern France to St Margaret's Bay in

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subsequently succeeded in crossing the English Channel on his device on 4 August 2019, covering the 35-kilometre (22 mi) journey from Sangatte in northern France to St Margaret's Bay in Kent, UK, in 22 minutes, with a midpoint fueling stop included. 24 July 2019 was the busiest day in aviation; Flightradar24 recorded a total of over 225,000 flights that day. It includes helicopters, private jets, gliders, sight-seeing flights, as well as personal aircraft. On 10 June 2020, the Pipistrel Velis Electro became the first electric aeroplane to secure a type certificate from EASA. In the early 21st Century, the first fifth-generation military fighters were produced, starting with the F-22 Raptor. As of 2019, Russia, America and China all have 5th-gen aircraft. The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the aviation industry due to the resulting travel restrictions as well as slump in demand among travellers, and may also affect the future of air travel. For example, the mandatory use of face masks on planes was common when flying in 2020 and 2021. === Mars === On 19 April 2021, NASA successfully flew its diminutive unmanned helicopter Ingenuity on Mars, humanity's first controlled powered aircraft flight on another planet. The helicopter rose to a height of three metres and hovered in a stable holding position for 30 seconds. A video of the flight was made by its accompanying rover, Perseverance. Ingenuity, which was initially designed for five demonstration flights, flew 72 times traveling 11 miles in nearly three years. As a homage to all of its aerial predecessors, it carries a postage stamp sized piece of wing fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer. Ingenuity's last flight was 18 January 2024, a span of 2 years, 333 days since its first takeoff (the duration in Martian days, or sols, was 1035). Broken and damaged rotor blades suffered during its final landing forced the helicopter's retirement. == See also == Aviation archaeology Claims to the first powered flight List of firsts in aviation Timeline of aviation == References == === Bibliography === == Further reading == Van Vleck, Jenifer (2013). Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. == External links == E. C. Vivian (October 1920). History of Aeronautics. "The Gaston and Albert Tissandier Collection". Rare Book & Special Collections. Library of Congress. Publications relating to the history of aeronautics, (1,800 titles dispersed in the collection) Carroll F. Gray. "Flying Machines". Peter Whalley. "History of Flight - Key events". Knowledge Media Institute. Open University. "Historical archive since 1919". Aerospace Industries Association. "Alberto Santos-Dumont Est Peut-Être Le Véritable 'Père De L'aviation'". Magazine Aviation. (in French) === Articles === Carroll F. Gray (August 2002). "The five first flights". WW1 AERO - The Journal of the Early Aeroplane. Archived from the original on 22 April 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2003. Jürgen Schmidhuber (2003). "First Powered Flight - Plane Truth". Nature. No. 421. p. 689. Richard Harris (December 2003). "First Flyers—They're not who you think..." In Flight USA. Archived

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