Honors Engineering: Week Fourteen

For my final blog post, I decided to take a look back at all of my previous posts and just list our some of the information I found over the weeks.


Important people in aeronautical history:

• Leonardo da Vinci: Invented the first real flying machine and helicopter.
• Marquis de Bacqueville: Created imitation flapping wings and flew from his house to the Garden of Tuileries.
• Sir George Cayley: Built a glider and skimmed the ground and sailed from hilltops.
• The Wright Brothers: First successful flight of an airplane with an on board motor.
• Paul Cornu: Created first successful helicopter.
• Charles Lindbergh: First person to make a non-stop flight across the Atlantic ocean while flying solo.
• Amelia Earhart: First woman to attempt to make a non-stop flight across the Atlantic ocean while flying solo.

Big moments in flight history:

• 1500: Leonardo da Vinci sketched (and built?) a parachute, ornithopter (flying machine) and helicopter.
• 1742: Marquis de Bacqueville created imitation flapping wings and flew from his house, (on the Seine) to the Garden of Tuileries. The wings ceased to act mid-flight, ending in apparent disaster.
• 1890: Sir George Cayley built a glider with a 300 foot wing surface and skimmed the ground and sailed from hilltops.
• 1842: Henson patented a monoplane to be driven by a steam engine. Wing span was 140 feet.
• 1900: Wilbur and Orville Wright begin experimenting with glider with a front rudder. The glider hovered for just over a minute.
• 1903: Wilbur and Orville Wright tested a biplane glider which flew for 59 seconds, covering 852 feet. The plane weighed 750 pounds, first successful sustained flight in the world.

Important aspects in flight:

• Balance
• Gravity
• Acceleration
• Weight Displacement
• Force

Different types of air crafts:

• Fighter-planes
• Non-fighter planes
• Transport planes
• Helicopters