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Flight

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    Ornithopter

    Ornithopter
    leonardo da vinci made the first real studies of flight in the 1480's.He had over 100 drawings that illustrated his theories on flight.

  • first hot air balloon

    first hot air balloon
    the brothers joseph michel and jacques etienne montgolfier were the inventors of the first hot air ballon

  • one version of a glider

    one version of a glider
    1799-1850 george cayleya George Cayley worked to discover a way that man could fly. He designed many different versions of gliders that used the movements of the body to control.

  • blimp

    blimp
    Henri Giffard built the first powered blimp

  • attempt for the planes

    attempt for the planes
    A young boy made the first manned flight in a glider designed by Cayley in 1849. In 1874, Felix duTemple made the first attempt at powered flight by hopping off the end of a ramp in a steam-driven monoplane

  • one of lileinthal's Gliders

    one of lileinthal's Gliders
    german engineer otto lilienthal studied aerodynamics and worked to design a glider

  • Langley's Aerodrome

    Langley's Aerodrome
    Samuel Langley was an astronomer, who realized that power was needed to help man fly. which he called an aerodrome, that included a steam-powered engine. In 1891, his model flew for 3/4s of a mile before running out of fuel.

  • Octave Chanute published

    Octave Chanute published Progress in Flying Machines in 1894.

  • Orville and Wilbur Wright and the First Airplane

    Orville and Wilbur Wright and the First Airplane
    they had built and worked hard to build there first airplane

  • July 2, 1900 - The first flight of the Zeppelin,

    July 2, 1900 - The first flight of the Zeppelin,
    July 2, 1900 - The first flight of the Zeppelin, a "rigid" airship that was the first aircraft to use large metal structure