History of Aviation

THE PRE-HISTORY OF FLIGHT

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• IN ANCIENT DAYS, MAN WAS FACINATED BY BIRDS FLYING AND
THEIR FEATURY WINGS. DAEDALUS.
• FOLKLORE ABOUT CHARIOT OF GOD, FLYING CARPET, AND
BROOMSTICKS
• FLYING MACHINE AS A CONCEPT WAS INTRODUCED BY AN
ENGLISHMEN ROGER BACON IN 13TH CENTURY
• ORTHICOPTERS
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• HYDROGEN AND HOT AIR BALOONS
• SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS
• HEAVIER THEN AIR AIRCRAFT
• CAYLEY DESIGN CLOSE TO MACHINE AIRCRAFT
• LIFT RATHER THAN ORNITHOPTERS
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• STEAM DRIVEN ENGINE
• HENSON FOLLOWED HAYLEY’S RESEARCH AND MADE A PLANE
WITH PROPELLERS, RAISED TAIL RUDDER AND WINGS LIKE MODERN
AIRCRAFT BUT WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL.
• HAYLEY DEVELOPED STEAM DRIVEN MANNED GLIDER
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• AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN 1866.
• HENSON OF THE SOCIETY BUILT THE FIRST WIND TUNNEL.
• ENGINE POWER
• DU TEMPLE A FRENCHMAN BUILT A MANNED AIROPLANE WITH A
STEAM ENGINE THE PLANE WENT BRIEFLY IN AIR AND CAME
DOWN. 1874
• EDER A FRENCH ENGINEER BUILT A CRAFT THAT FLEW 20
CENTIMETERS ABOVE THE GROUND FOR 30 METERS
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• PERCY PITCHER WAS FIRST GASOLINE ENGINE
• 1905 THE WRIGHT BROS ESTABLISHED THEMSELVES AS THE FIRST
BUILDERS OF MACHINE POWERED AEROPLANES
• THEY WENT INTO NEGOTIATIONS FOR A LUCRATIVE CONTRACT
• THEY APPROACHED US ARMY SUGGESTING USE FOR MAIL &
MESSAGES & SCOUTING
• THEY WERE TURNED DOWN
• THEY THEN APPROACHED BRITAIN AND FRANCE
• FRENCH DEMANDED A DEMONSTRATION HOWEVER WRIGHT
DENIED
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• WRIGHT HAD STOPPED WORK ON AEROPLANES
• THIS GAVE TIME TO COMPETETION
• FRENCH COMPETED UNSUCCESSFULLY
• ONE FRENCH AVIATOR FLEW THE SKY FOR 28 MINUTES TO WIN A
PRIZE OF 50,000/= FRANCS
• NO ONE COULD BREAK THE US RECORD (WILBER AND ORVILLE)
• WRIGHT BROS AGREED TO MARKET THEIR AEROPLANE
• ARMY US AND FRENCH SYNDICATE
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• ORVILLE STAYED IN US FOR ARMY, WILBUR WENT TO FRANCE
• WILBURS MACHINE GOT EXTREMELY DAMAGED IN CUSTOMS
• HOWEVER HE SUCCESSFULLY FLEW FOR 2.5 HRS AND BECAME A
CELEBRITY
• HE ALSO SET AN ALTITUDE RECORD OF 360 FT
• HIS MACHINE CARRIED 60 PASSENGERS
• THE WRIGHT BROS BECAME MOST FAMOUS IN THE WORLD
• OFFERS CAME ROLLING IN FROM OVER THE WORLD
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• IN 1910 THE WRIGHT AIRCRAFT COMPANY WAS ESTABLISHED
• A FACTORY WAS ESTABLISHED IN DAYTON
• MANY COMPANIES IN EUROPE MADE WRIGHT AIRCRAFT UNDER LICENCE
• THE BROS FOUND THEMSELVES IN LITIGATION ESPECIALLY THE FRENCH.
ONE LITIGATION LINGERED ON TILL 1914
• WILBUR DIED IN 1912
• ORVILLE CONTINUED AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH
• HIS RELATIONSHIP ENDED WITH THE WRIGHT COMPANY IN 1915
• IN 1943 SMITHSONIAN FINALLY ACCEPTED WRIGHTS TO BE THE FIRST
MACHINE OPERATED SELF FLYING MANNED AEROPLANE