The Birth Of Aviation
The fantasizing of flight has long been one of the greatest wishes of man. We have seen this in a number of cases. Some have been geniuses in their own rights in an attempt to achieve the conquest of flight. Of these, some famous people are Leonardo da Vinci who came up with the first concept of a helicopter, in 1483! Though his design was not practical in his time and not feasible in our times, it is nevertheless, a very much possible concept.
The first experience of flight came to man from the hot air balloon, in 1783. Even then the concept of aerial warfare had merged. The idea of dropping explosives from balloons over enemy positions seemed very brilliant but the hardest part was to control and guide them into the right places. But Swiss Engineer Daniel Bernoulli, in 1738, presented his work on laws of fluid(gases and liquids) dynamics. This gave way to the adoption of winged design for flight rather than balloons. In 1853, British engineer finally made a dramatic breakthrough with the first glider, whose came to be know as a heavier-than-air flight.
Finally on December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers made history when they flew their machine- "The Flyer" under its own power for the first time at Kitty Hawk in N. Carolina(USA). The Wright brothers had opened a new chapter of revolution that was to change the face of the world.
The first helicopter that actually flew in 1907 by a Frenchman, Paul Cornu, at Lisieux. However, it rose only a few feet in the air and problems of stability along with other design aspects led to the helicopter's development being abandoned for nearly 30 years. Finally, in 1939, a Russian-born engineer, Igor Sikorsky, produced a successful single rotor helicopter, the VS-300, in the USA. The modern rotor-craft --- the most versatile of all aircrafts, had finally arrived. The Helicopter!
The fantasizing of flight has long been one of the greatest wishes of man. We have seen this in a number of cases. Some have been geniuses in their own rights in an attempt to achieve the conquest of flight. Of these, some famous people are Leonardo da Vinci who came up with the first concept of a helicopter, in 1483! Though his design was not practical in his time and not feasible in our times, it is nevertheless, a very much possible concept. The first experience of flight came to man from the hot air balloon, in 1783. Even then the concept of aerial warfare had merged. The idea of dropping explosives from balloons over enemy positions seemed very brilliant but the hardest part was to control and guide them into the right places. But Swiss Engineer Daniel Bernoulli, in 1738, presented his work on laws of fluid(gases and liquids) dynamics. This gave way to the adoption of winged design for flight rather than balloons. In 1853, British engineer finally made a dramatic breakthrough with the first glider, whose came to be know as a heavier-than-air flight. Finally on December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers made history when they flew their machine- "The Flyer" under its own power for the first time at Kitty Hawk in N. Carolina(USA). The Wright brothers had opened a new chapter of revolution that was to change the face of the world.The first helicopter that actually flew in 1907 by a Frenchman, Paul Cornu, at Lisieux. However, it rose only a few feet in the air and problems of stability along with other design aspects led to the helicopter's development being abandoned for nearly 30 years. Finally, in 1939, a Russian-born engineer, Igor Sikorsky, produced a successful single rotor helicopter, the VS-300, in the USA. The modern rotor-craft --- the most versatile of all aircrafts, had finally arrived. The Helicopter!
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