This may be the first centaur-airplane hybrid that we've encountered.  From Lustige Blätter, 1914.

My collection of vintage centaurs is galloping along.  ElodieUnderGlass writes: "I collect centaurs as well, and especially vintage ones, so I was very pleased by the idea of having a curated collection to rifle through. I left [this] collection with a sense of complete displacement. It was amazing."

From Judge's Library, 1904.

"The flying machine of the future will probably be based upon the structure of a flying bird, the louvers in the wings corresponding to the action of the bird's feathers," from Harmsworth Magazine, 1900.

From Harmsworth Magazine, 1900.

"The sphere rose through the falling ruins of the house and soared up into the night."  From Harmsworth Magazine, 1901.

From Lello Universal.

Here's a precursor to Chariots of the Gods: Tutankhamen's flying machine.  From Die Bühne, 1925.

"The balloon never had a chance."  From Hartmann the Anarchist by Edwatd Douglas Fawcett, 1893.

"By all the powers o' darkness, this beats broomsticks!"  Date unknown.

"Saucer hysteria will be a breeze next to this."  From an issue of Cessquire, in the Mort Brown Special Collection of the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.

"Airline technology has not gone through any radical changes" (Brian Clegg, Final Frontier: The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universe).  Image courtesy of the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.