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History of aviation.

B.C. 2023

by: german cortes

1914

B.c

the first Airplanes

the first mentions

+In 1903 Orville Wright became the first person to fly in an aircraft that was heavier than the air, in a flight that had 12 seconds of duration and moved 37 meters. +1906 the engineer Alberto Santos Dumont made a public flight in his plane the 14-bis which moved 221 meters, and at difference of the plane of the Wright brothers the 14-bis didn't needed a launching machine or wind for taking off. +1900 Ferdinand Von Zeppelin starts to make advances in the dirigibles, with the invention of the LZ1 which flied 18 minutes and at a velocity of 6 m/s +1902 the spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo started developing a new type of dirigibles, till 1911 when the astra-torres dirigbles started being fabricated,

+In the year 400 B.C. the greek scholar Archytas of Tarentum designed and built a steam powered airplane in the shape of a pidgeon.+300 B.C. the kong ming lantern was a precursor of the hot air balloon in china +1290 an English monk named Roger Bacon wrote that the air same as the water had characteristics of the solids, and studied the ideas of archimedes and concluded that there could be a machine that if had the necesary characteristics could float in the air like boats

1946-present

modern aviation

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XV-XIX

1st and 2nd World War

an increment in innovation

AIRCRAFTS LIGHTER THAN AIR

+XV Leonardo da Vinci probably the first-one to idealize machines that could fly, which were ornithopters and gliders+1709 the father Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão flied in the first hot air balloon about 3 meters in the air +1783 the doctor Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and the noble François Laurent d'Arlandes made the first free flight of 25 minutes and 8 kilometers in a hot air balloon. +1852 the french engineer Henri Giffard invented the dirigible which was a hot air balloon, but with the difference that it could be controlled with a rudder and engines

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