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100 Years of Flight
Leonardo Da Vinci once said, “A bird is an instrument working according to a mathematical law. ... With a something as simple as this quote the idea of flight began taking off.
Manned flight began on 21 November 1783 when Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis dArlandes made the first ascent from Paris in a hot-air balloon created by Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier. That first flight lasted 25 minutes and reached about 3,000ft. This flight was closely followed, on 1 December, by the first flight of a hydrogen-filled balloon, when Prof Jacques Charles and Noel Roberts travelled 27 miles across France. ... The first manned powered flight arrived on 24 September 1852 when Henri Giffard flew his steam engine powered airship 17 miles, again across France. ... These are reputed to have culminated in a glider flight carrying the ten-year-old son of a servant in 1849. ... After studying bird flight and Lilienthals gliding they appreciated the inefficiency of the latters method of obtaining balance and control solely by body movements. ... They returned to their usual testing
100 Years of Flight Villanueva, Matt
ground at the Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, with their Wright Flyer and after an unsuccessful attempt on 14 December 1903, Orville Wright took off at 10. ... The worlds first manned, powered, controlled and sustained flight in a heavier-than-air machine. During the fourth and final flight that day, Wilbur flew for 59 seconds covering 852ft. ... On 13th May 1940 Sikorsky achieved free (non-tethered) flight in his S-300, a helicopter with the now familiar main and tail rotor layout. Following this, Sikorsky became a world leader in rotary-wing flight. ... 14-bis design achieving the first aeroplane flight in Europe on October 23 1906. ...
Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1828-1917)
100 Years of Flight
A pioneer of rigid airships, as an army officer von Zeppelin became interested in airships as a military vehicle, his first airship LZ-1 (Luftschiff Zeppelin 1) flying from Lake Constance in July 1900. ... This mission by the soviets awakened the Western World and was a major start of the space race that was to take place between the Soviet Union and America for the next 10 years.
Approximate Word count = 1852
Approximate Pages = 7.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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