What is the history of aviation?

Aviation history begins at 600 BCE or earlier in China, where people flew to great dragons (as punishment). In the 5th century BC, the inventor of Lu Ban invented a "wooden bird", whose specifics were unknown, although it could be a big dragon or an early glider. Balloons with hot air with on -board lanterns were built in the 3rd century BC in China and used to scare the enemy during the battle. The human flight in the dragon was again recorded as occurring in 559. The Italian genius Leonardo da Vinci created various patterns for flying machines and aviation, including ornithopter (a flight machine for paying wings), but have never been built. Until 1783, the first milestone in modern aviation, True Flying Machine, and Hbalon Ot-Air, was built by Montgolfier brothers and flew Jean-Francois Piller de Rozier and Francois Laurent d'Arclandes within 5 km (8 km). This early balloon, powered by wooden fire, had no steering mechanism.

At the end of the 18th century, aviation in hot -air balloons in Europe was anger and the work was started in the production of a controlled hot air balloon. This was achieved in 1852 by Henri Giffard using a vessel driven by a steam engine that flew 15 miles (24 km) in initial fashion. In the 1860s of the 20th century, for the first time in the war, during the American Civil War, for the first time in the war, for the first time in the war, for the first time in the war. In 1884, the first completely controllable airship was built, also one of the first truly large airships, 170 feet (52 m) in length, with 66,000 cubic traces (1,900 cu m) air. This balloon called La France was owned by a Frenchman and covered 5 miles (87 km) in its first flight with the help of 8-1/2 horsepower.

19th century, the physics of flight and construction of progressive 14 modern heavier than air aviation was explored. The first heavier than the air flight appeared in the Fairfield in Connecticut, Gustave WhiteheadEm, August 14, 1901. This motor -powered, 800 meters long, 15 meters of high flight preceded the historic flight of Wright brothers for more than two years and represents a real historical milestone.

After the development of heavier than air aircraft in 1901, aviation proceeded constantly and quickly up to 70 years. In 1939, the first functional jet aircraft was Erich Warsitz in Germany. The first practical helicopter was developed at about the same time, in 1936, also in Germany. The audio barrier was interrupted in 1947 by Chuck Yeager in a missile driven Bell X-1 and the first commercial jetliner, Jetline AVRO C102R, flew in 1949.