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When people in China discovered that a kite that could fly it made more humans think about flight for themselves. -
Sir George Cayley defined the forces of lift and drag and presented the first scientific design for a fixed-wing aircraft.
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Victor Tatin built a small model of the soon to be called airplane. The model was 75 inches wingspan and flew around a pole in a circle. -
Wilbur and Orville noticed that all these primitive aircraft lacked suitable controls -
The first two gliders flown in had failed to perform as the Wright brothers had hoped
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Wilbur and Orville built a wind tunnel and conducted experiments to determine the best wing shape for an airplane
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Wilbur Wright are in Kitty Hawk, they made their first test flights at North Carolina, on the shores of the Atlantic where the strong winds helped to launch the gliders and the soft sands helped to cushion the fall when they crashed. -
Alberto Santos-Dumont started on the development of the outer wings for the airplane -
The Wright Brothers aircraft crashed during a demonstration at Fort Myer, VA