SUMMERY WHO: The brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright WHAT: The first powered, human-crewed flight WHERE: Kitty Hawk N.C. WHEN: Dec. 17, 1903 HOW: Two brothers combined their hobbies of hang-gliding and bicycling to have a flight of 12 seconds RATIONALE This event was chosen because of my interest ...

"In the life of this state, there is no single event that comes anywhere close to matching the importance to all mankind of what took place at Kitty Hawk on Dec. 17, 1903." As described in this quote Kitty Hawk supported something so amazing that nothing could come anywhere close to matching the im...

The History Of Planes Have you ever wondered who was the first person to make a flying machine? It was not the Wright brother. If you want to know just keep reading more about the history of the planes and how it evolved. The Reason Planes Fly Whenever I see a plane the first questi...

Man's dream of flying has been apparent almost as long as mankind himself. However, the concept of an aircraft has only been around for approximately two hundred years. Before this time, man tried to fulfill this dream by mimicking the birds. They first built machines called ornithopters to utilize...

Fifty years ago, in 1947, it was common knowledge that there was a "Wall of Air" at the speed of sound. As an airplane neared this critical point, shock waves would pound its wings and tail. The pilot would lose control, a condition then called "compressibility." Often, the airplane would shatter in...

Fly GirlsIn the middle of World War I, women with flight experience were needed to fly in the military. All over the country young women postponed their weddings, put educations on hold, ad quit their jobs. For 1942 to 1944, more then 1000 women were trained to ferry aircraft, test planes, instruct ...

Aerospace engineering is a diverse and rapidly changing field which includes four major technologies: aerodynamics, dynamics and control, propulsion, and structures and materials. The primary application of aerospace engineering is the design and development of aircraft, missiles and spacecraft. Ho...

LindberghLindbergh's nonstop flight across the Atlantic was successful because of his knowledge, his experience, his thoroughness and his luck.Lindbergh had been a stunt pilot on the barnstorming circuit and had flown and navigated mail planes for years. So when he set out to win the twenty five th...