In 1826 Samual Moray became bored with pioneering the development of steam powered ships and on 1 April filed the first ever patent for the internal combustion engine. In 1918, Hugh Montague (Boom) Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, having learned to fly in one of Tommy Sopwith’s aeroplanes (powered by the internal combustion engine), formed the Royal Air Force. Only 6 years later, on 1 April, the worlds first paying commercial flight was carried out by Société Anonyme Belge d’Exploitation de la Navigation Aerienne (SABENA Airlines) between Rotterdam and Strasbourg. Having exhausted the possibilities of the internal combustion engine, the RAF introduced the jet powered Harrier vertical take off aircraft into service on 1 April 1969.
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