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200 BCE
China discovered the kite
When people in China discovered that a kite that could fly it made more humans think about flight for themselves. -
Defined the fixed-wing aircraft
Sir George Cayley defined the forces of lift and drag and presented the first scientific design for a fixed-wing aircraft. -
small model
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. -
Aircraft lacked suitable controls
Wilbur and Orville noticed that all these primitive aircraft lacked suitable controls -
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Two gliders flown and failed to performed
The first two gliders flown in had failed to perform as the Wright brothers had hoped -
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The best wing shape to fly
Wilbur and Orville built a wind tunnel and conducted experiments to determine the best wing shape for an airplane -
First test flights
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. -
outer wings
Alberto Santos-Dumont started on the development of the outer wings for the airplane -
Aircraft crashed
The Wright Brothers aircraft crashed during a demonstration at Fort Myer, VA