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History Who Really Invented the Airplane Part 3 - Trivia-Library.com - 0 views

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  • ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT
  • In 1897 he flew in a balloon for the first time and thereafter became one of the foremost balloonists in France.
  • In 1905 he built an airplane consisting of three box kites connected to each other by bamboo poles, powered by a steam engine.
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  • THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
  • Orville and Wilbur Wright, the sons of a midwestern minister, displayed a high mechanical aptitude even in their youth. This, coupled with investigative natures, made Orville (1871-1948) and Wilbur (1867-1912) ideal inventors. By their early twenties they had built a printing press and designed a new bicycle, which they also manufactured. They became interested in flight by reading about the glider experiments of German aerialist Otto Lilienthal.
  • By December of 1903, the brothers were back at Kitty Hawk with their first powered airplane, a double-winged, box kite-shaped contraption with an undercarriage attached to a stationary monorail track. On Dec. 17 Orville stretched out in the middle of the lower wing and took off on a 12-sec., 120-ft. flight. That same day, Wilbur flew for 59 sec., covering 852 ft.
  • five witnesses
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History Who Really Invented the Airplane Part 2 - Trivia-Library.com - 0 views

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  • Ader kept working to perfect his airplane, and finally, with the financial backing of the French Army, he built Avion III, a flying machine similar in design to the Eole but with a longer wingspan and two four-blade propellers. On Oct. 14, 1897, Ader tested his Avion at Satory with a military observer team present. Ader claimed that that day he had again flown, but three witnesses disagreed with each other about whether Ader actually took off and flew the Avion before it crashed.
  • SAMUEL PIERPONT LANGLEY
  • Langley was soon experimenting with models, the first of which were powered by rubber bands
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  • The result was the completion of a series of test planes.
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • This 30-lb. craft with a steam engine flew for 1 min. 20 sec. at an altitude of 70 to 100 ft. for a distance of 3,000 ft.
  • It was the first successful flight of an unmanned heavier-than-air flying machine. Langley's Aerodrome Number 6 had mechanical problems that day, but it flew 4,200 ft. in November of 1896.
  • In 1898, at President William McKinley's instigation, the U.S. Army awarded Langley $50,000 to develop a plane that would carry a man aloft. In December, 1903, nine days before the Wrights' test at Kitty Hawk, Langley tried out his new gasoline-powered experimental model. A mishap with the catapult caused the airplane to plunge to the bottom of the Potomac, and Langley gave up his experiments after being criticized by the press for the great expense to the taxpayers.
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The Airplanes Channel: Home Page - 0 views

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    a site devoted solely to airplanes
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HowStuffWorks "How Airplanes Work" - 0 views

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    Shows how airplanes work.
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Thomson Gale - Airplanes - 0 views

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    Has information all about Airplanes
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Airplane History - 0 views

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airplane --  Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition - 0 views

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    Has great info
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Really invented plane

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  • Leonardo da Vinci designed a flying machine in the 15th century, and by the 19th century men were airborne in hot-air balloons, gliders, and huge kites.
  • depended on the whimsy of the wind
  • And so, at the end of the 19th century, enthusiasts around the world joined in the race to invent the first flying machine.
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  • CLEMENT ADER (1841-1925)
  • Clement Ader
  • producing a kite capable of carrying a man aloft
  • build and design countless kites
  • In the early 1870s he created an ornithopter, an engine to which was attached flapping wings, but it failed to fly
  • Ader went to Algeria to study the flight of vultures
  • In order to fly, he decided, a machine must have fixed wings and an engine capable of lifting it off the ground
  • the Eole
  • akeoff and a powered flight of approximately 165 ft.
  • 330 ft.
  • Ader himself did not publicly report this flight until 1906.
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