history of flight

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    birds

    birds
    bird have been around for a very long time and have inspierd flight in some great inventors.
  • Jul 14, 1468

    flying machine

    flying machine
    leinardo da vinci desinged the flying machine.
  • hot air balloon

    hot air balloon
    Pilatre De Rozier, a scientist, launched the first hot air balloon called 'Aerostat Reveillon'. The passengers were a sheep, a duck and a rooster and the balloon stayed in the air for a grand total of 15 minutes before crashing back to the ground.
  • Zeppelins

    Zeppelins
    A Zeppelin was a type of rigid airship named after the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century.
  • airplains

    airplains
    the first airplain was created by the wright bothers and was flown for a total of 12 seconds and went 120 feet in the air
  • Hellecopters

    Hellecopters
    the VS-300, the world's first practical helicopter, took flight at Stratford, Connecticut. Designed by Igor Sikorsky and built by the Vought-Sikorsky
  • space crafts/ sputnik 1

    space crafts/ sputnik 1
    Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957
  • space crafts/ Apollo 11

    space crafts/ Apollo 11
    the apollo space craft landed on the moon