Aircraft Design and History

The notion that man could fly or someday would be able to achieve flight has long since been an idea of man for literally centuries. As early as 400 BC, a Greek scholar by the name of Archytas built a wooden pigeon that moved through the air. Approximately 100 years later the Chinese developed kites, which are a form of gliders, which much later in history, allowed humans to fly in them (1). Mans first attempts at flight …

…that we may someday have personal flying cars as a way of commuting and shuttles that will transport us to hotels in space. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Bibliography; 1. http://www.geocities.com/~mkoop/history/1950_present.html 2. http://www.scaled.com/projects/voyager/voyager.html 3. http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/Voyager/HTML/index.html 4. http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/X-1/HTML/index.html 5. http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/X-38/HTML/index.html