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Flight
History
The Greek legend of Icarus from over two thousand years ago has recorded that Icarus and his father, the master craftsman Daedalus, try to escape from Crete (and the Minotaur) using feather and wax wings. However he flew to close to the sun which caused the wax to melt and he drowned.
The first 'sustained and powered' flight took place on December 17, 1903 at 10:35am. The Warner Brothers had the first successful heavier-than-air flying machine in North Carolina.
The first heavier-than-air flight travelled one hundred twenty feet in twelve seconds. The two brothers took turns flying that day with the fourth and last flight covering 850 feet in 59 seconds. But the Flyer was unstable and very hard to control.
The brothers returned to Dayton, Ohio, where they worked for two more years perfecting their design. Finally, on October 5, 1905, Wilbur piloted the Flyer III for 39 minutes and about 24 miles of circles around Huffman Prairie. He flew the first practical airplane until it ran out of gas.
The potentially earliest experiments of flights began in the 9th Century with the Andalusian inventor Abbas ibn Firnas designing a simple glider. Writings at the time refer to how he "flew faster than the phoenix in his flight when he dressed his body in the feathers of a vulture."
In the 16th century, Leonardo da Vinci designed several flying machines from his research of birds. His work survives in the "Codex on the Flight of Birds." As fascinating as these works may be, as far as we know, no successful flying machine was built from them.
In 1783, the brothers, Joseph Michel and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier first invented the hot air balloon by using smoke from a fire to blow hot air into a silk bag which was attached to a basket. The hot air then rose and allowed the balloon to be lighter-than-air.
In 1783, the first passengers in the colorful balloon were a sheep, rooster and duck. It climbed to a height of about 6,000 feet and traveled more than 1 mile.
After this first success, the brothers began to send men up in balloons. The first manned flight was on November 21, 1783, the passengers were Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Francois Laurent.
During the period of 1799 and the 1850's, George Cayley worked to discover a way that man could fly. He designed many different versions of gliders that used the movements of the body to control. A young boy, whose name is not known, was the first to fly one of his gliders.
Over 50 years he made improvements to the gliders. He changed the shape of the wings so that the air would flow over the wings correctly. He designed a tail for the gliders to help with the stability. He tried a biplane design to add strength to the glider. He also recognized that there would be a need for power if the flight was to be in the air for a long time.
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Variations
Commercial
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Balloons
Airship/Dirigible Balloons
Barrage Balloon/Blimp
Fire Balloon
Hopper Balloons
Hot Air Balloons
Gas Balloons
Rozière Balloon
Military
Attack Helicopters
Apache Guardian
Wildcat MK1
Watchkeeper - Uncrewed Air System
Gazelle
Bell 212
Airbus 135 'Juno'
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