How Did We Learn to Fly Like the Birds?

- Myths and Legends of Flight

• Greek Legend - Pegasus

• Icarus and Daedalus - An Ancient Greek Legend

• King Kaj Kaoos of Persia

• Alexander the Great

Early Efforts of Flight

• Around 400 BC - China

• Humans try to fly like birds

• Hero and the AeolipileAeolipile

• 1485 Leonardo da Vinci - The Ornithopter

• 1783 - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier- the First Hot Air Balloon

• 1799 - 1850's - George Cayley

One Version of a Glider

One of the many drawings of gliders

• 19th And 20th Century Efforts

•1891 Otto Lilienthal

One of Lilienthal's Gliders

Lilienthal's Glider in Flight

•1891 Samuel P. Langley

Model of Langley Aerodrome

Langley's Aerodrome

•1894 Octave Chanute

•1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright and the First Flight

A Model of a Wright Brothers Glider

(1900)

Picture of the actual 12 horsepower

engine used in flight

The Wright Brother's Flyer

Flight of The Flyer at Kitty Hawk

•Dynamics of FlightDynamics of Flight

•How Wings Lift the Plane

•Laws of Motion

•Forces of Flight

Four forces of flight

Lift - upward Drag - down and backwardWeight - downwardThrust - forward