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The Airplane
Before the airplane could even be attempted, evidence of flying needed to be found. Before the Wright brothers the Hot Air Balloon was invented along with Sir Cayley's glider. The first airplane to be flown was a glider. This glider was built by Sir George Cayley and was pushed off of a high cliff. Later on Wilbur and Orville Wright came into the picture. They started building and testing gliders near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Their first success was a 59 second flight taken by Wilbur. As they kept experimenting they found a way to allow the pilot to steer and control the height. by adding an engine and making the glider two winged, the pilot was now able to steer the plane. By 1908 the Wright Brothers had created a plane that could fly for over an hour and a half. As time passed many different flyers from the the Wright Brothers were demonstrated. As people watched other inventors who were trying to expand on the Wright brothers idea realized a lot of the technology that the Wright Brothers had developed. After the great invention of the motored airplane people went on to expand on that idea and many great improvements were made such as being able to land safely without crash landing each time.
Sir Cayley's Glider
The Wright Brother's Flyer
sources:http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112389/airplanes.htm,
http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/History_of_the_Airplane/History_of_the_Airplane_Intro/History_of_the_Airplane_Intro.htm
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