the history of flight by ashleigh parlevliet. c. 1485 – c. 1513 leonardo da vinci designed an...
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The History of FlightBy Ashleigh Parlevliet
c. 1485 – c. 1513Leonardo da Vinci
Designed an ornithopter with control surfaces.
Sketches flying machines, such as helicopters.
November 21, 1783First Manned Flight (Hot Air Balloon)
Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes
25 minutes
1849Sir George Cayley’s Glider Launched a 10-year-
old boy in a small glider being towed by a team of people running down a hill.
24th September, 1852First Airship
Henri Giffard flies a total of 27km from the Paris Hippodrome to Trappes.
Reaches a top speed of 10km/h
17th December, 1903First Controlled, Powered Flight
Orville and Wilbur Wright make flights at Kitty Hawk, in North Carolina.
Orville’s flight flies 37m in 12 seconds.
Wilbur’s flight flies 260m in 59 seconds.
14th September, 1939First Mass-Produced Helicopter
Sikorsky VS-300
Single engine helicopter
18th July, 1942First Flight Under Jet Power Messerschmitt ME 262
First operational jet-powered fighter aircraft
14th October, 1947First Supersonic Flight
US. Airforce Captain Chuck Yeager
The rocket powered Bell X-1 flew past the speed of sound in the first controlled, supersonic, level flight.
Achieved Mach 1.06, new world air speed record of 1,299km/h.
27th July, 1949First Jet Airliner
De Havilland Comet
At Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
4th October, 1957First Artificial Satellite
Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1
Launched into orbit
9th February, 1969First Wide-Bodied Jet Airliner Boeing 747
Biggest jet airliner
20th July, 1969First Manned Moon Landing Apollo spacecraft
Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the moon.
12th April, 1981First Reusable Manned Aircraft
US Space Shuttle Columbia
Glided down 2 days later
19th March, 1989First Tilt-rotor Aircraft
V-22 Osprey
US Department of Defence
1st March, 1999First ATW Balloon Flight
Breitling Orbiter 3
Non-stop around the world
Completed on 19th March
New distance record of 40,804 km
18th January, 2005World’s Biggest Airliner
Airbus A380
Unveiled in France
Double-Deck, wide body, four engine jet airliner
25th March, 2006Scramjet Engine Test
Hyshot 3
Tested successfully at Woomera, Australia
Designed to fly 7 times the speed of sound
Activities
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/lessonplans/flight.html
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/aeroact.htm
http://scdolinski.weebly.com/
http://www.ece.gov.nt.ca/files/Early-Childhood/career-development/Gr%206%20Flight_Space.pdf