40 Airplane Coloring Pages - Free!

Have you ever wanted to have the superpower of flying like birds? Have you wanted to reach the clouds? Well, although we humans don't have those innate abilities, we have indeed been able to build amazing machines.

Among them are airplanes. This means of transportation is one of the safest that exists, and it achieves something impressive: rising through the sky. In an airplane you can travel from one country to another by air and observe the earth from a very high altitude.

Despite being a very useful means, not only for transporting people, we know little about airplanes. Who invented them? Which was the first airplane in the world? What other things are they used for?

Well, if you color the airplane drawings we bring for you, you will get answers to those questions and much more, because we bring fun facts about this topic that maybe you didn't know and that you will find very interesting.

So board with us! You won't regret it. Out there a sky full of knowledge and drawings that wait for you awaits. Go for it and learn while coloring!

1. Leonardo da Vinci was the first precursor of airplanes, since he designed an aircraft around the 15th century.
2. Between the 15th and 16th centuries, man already dreamed of flying through the skies, such as in Francis Godwin's tale “The Man on the Moon” where he describes a device propelled by a flock of geese that allows him to fly.
3. In almost all airlines, it is a rule that the pilot and the copilot must eat different food, in case one of them suffers food poisoning.
4. It is impossible to open an airplane door during a flight. The force needed is inhuman, so there is no way a passenger could open the door by accident.
5. Which seats do you think are the safest on the airplane? If you thought of the front ones, you are wrong. The seats that are in the back are really the safest in case an accident happens.
6. A study claims that the probability of surviving a plane crash is 56%.
7. The first airport in history was College Park Airport, built in August 1909, in Maryland, near Washington D.C.
8. In 1982 a peculiar accident happened. The pilot, the copilot, and the engineer of an airplane on a flight going from Boston to Lisbon suffered food poisoning from a spoiled pudding.
9. There is an important reason why airplane black boxes are not “black.” And it's that in case of an accident they would be very hard to find among the wreckage of the airplane.
10. A study conducted by TIME magazine reveals that there is no safer area in the airplane, but that the back seats have a mortality rate of 32% and the front ones of 38%.
11. Do you know what airplane black boxes are? They are not really boxes, but two devices that record the crew's conversations and the sounds of the cockpit.
12. Some aircraft certified with ETOPS can fly for hours even if one of their engines doesn't work. Incredible!
13. Airplane black boxes are not black, they are orange! And they have the function of storing data about the flight that allow determining what happened before an accident.
14. If someone dies on an airplane, the protocol consists of making this fact go unnoticed by the other passengers and placing the body in a seat with few passengers around.
15. Black boxes began to be placed in airplanes in the 1960s, because at that time there was a high number of air accidents.
16. International Civil Aviation Day is celebrated on December 7, with the goal of reinforcing the importance of civil aviation.
17. Do you know where commercial air transport of passengers began? It started in Germany with the Zeppelin airships.
18. The Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR, the device that makes up the black box) detects the signal of cell phones that stay on against the flight attendants' instructions.
19. The airplane's lights are dimmed to prepare passengers for a possible accident so their eyes can adjust to the darkness.
20. Did you know that pilots sleep during flights? This is because pilots must rest during long flights, as dictated by national and international air regulations.
21. If a person dies on an airplane, upon arriving at the airport an investigation is carried out about the cause of death; if it is not detected, then the airplane will go into quarantine.
22. Airplane bathrooms can be opened from the outside, even if you lock the latch.
23. Otto Lilienthal was an industrial and aeronautical engineer who created a device similar to a glider that launched from a hill. The most peculiar thing is that he was the one who experimented with his devices.
24. To test the resistance of airplane black boxes, they fire at them with an air cannon at 3,400 times the force of gravity, against an aluminum target.
25. The glider was invented by the British engineer George Cayley in the year 1799.
26. The Martin MB-1 was an American biplane bomber designed for the United States Army Air Service in 1918.
27. A US ship mistakenly shot down an Iran Air Airbus in 1988 in the Persian Gulf, which caused the death of 290 people.
28. The airplane's oxygen masks are only able to provide a continuous flow of air for 12 minutes, which would be the time the pilot would need to land.
29. On December 17, 1903 man made the first flight in history. The first airplane propelled by an engine was created by the brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright.
30. During the First World War biplanes were very useful, since they dominated the skies to carry out bombings.
31. Two airplanes crashed head-on near New Delhi on November 12, 1996, causing the death of the 349 people aboard both aircraft.
32. Do you know what a biplane is? It's a type of fixed-wing airplane with two sets of wings similar in size, one above the fuselage and another below.
33. In the early days of aviation, biplanes were the most popular airplanes, since their configuration allowed the wing sets to reinforce one another.
34. Biplanes have a big disadvantage: the two wing sets interfere with each other aerodynamically, which reduces the lift of the wings and offers less resistance to forward movement in the air.
35. According to the statistics, the most dangerous moment of a flight is not when it's flying, but during the landing, incredible! In that moment 48% of accidents are concentrated.
36. Otto Lilienthal, an industrial and aeronautical engineer, lost his life on August 9, 1896 while experimenting with one of his gliders.
37. In 1977 two airplanes that were about to take off did not organize their departures well and collided, which caused nearly 600 deaths.
38. International Civil Aviation Day is celebrated on December 7, with the goal of reinforcing the importance of civil aviation.
39. Black boxes began to be placed in airplanes in the 1960s, because at that time there was a high number of air accidents.
40. A study claims that the probability of surviving a plane crash is 56%.