HISTORY OF AIRPLANES

     Before the Wright Brothers created the first flying Airplane able to carry a human, there were those who inspired the idea. If not for their ideas and experiments perhaps airplanes as we know it today might not of been. The first ideas of the perfect airplane were the flapping-wing machines, called ornithopters. The Ornithopter is where the wings are providing both the lift and thrust. Apart from ornithopters three devices important to aviation had been invented in Europe in the Middle Ages and had reached a high stage.

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