1 Discard any hammer with mushroomed or chipped face or with cracks in the claw or eye sections. 2  Wear safety glasses or goggles, or a face shield (with safety glasses or goggles).  Strike a hammer blow squarely with the striking face parallel to the surface being struck.
The first jet airplane was the Heinkel He 178 made in Germany in 1939, right before the outbreak of World War II .
History of Aviation - First Flights. History of Aviation - First Flights. On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright capped four years of research and design efforts with a 120-foot, 12-second flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina - the first powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. Prior to that, people had flown only in balloons and gliders.