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Quest for Flight Poster |
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B201 Quest for Flight
Humans have long sought to soar in the sky, just like birds. This informative
and visually striking poster shows what it took to accomplish that seemingly
impossible goal.
The bottom row shows man’s earliest attempts to fly. Moving up the poster,
the most important discoveries, inventions, and events are presented in
chronological order. The great aviation pioneers are honored by a portrait
and a brief biography. In the late 1700s, English engineer Sir George Cayley
correctly identified the four forces that would affect a flying machine. A century
later, Lawrence Hargrave discovered the lift provided by a cambered wing.
About that time, Octave Chanute compiled and published the first organized,
written collection of aviation research. He shared his knowledge with many
aviation pioneers.
Americans Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled flight of a
heavier-than-air machine on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
It flew 120 feet in 12 seconds. Their Flyer was very experimental, and
it took the Wright brothers three more years to make it reasonably practical.
Some of the valuable improvements made by other early aviators are incorporated
in the two planes shown above the Flyer.
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SAMPLE IMAGES |
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| 1852 Giffard airship. |
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| 1890 Adler Eole
monoplane |
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| 1906 Dumont - first
aileron |
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