Aviation… Pionnering todays life

Aviation…

 Never before in history had innovations on a particular field, changed the world we leave in as the aviation did. Along with the invention of Internet and the harvest of the electric power, the powered flight is has sculptured the world we leave in the 21^th century.The electricity enables you to work day and night, winter and summer to achieve your goal.The internet helps you to distribute and project your products and ideas,while making and maintaining easy contact with others,but the aviation brought all them together.People can travel to the other side of the globe in less than one day,mails and packages can be delivered globally in 1 working day, cargo can be freighted where nor car nor truck neither ship can even think to approach.But how all started?

 

In it`s infancy the aviation was clearly restricted to non powered wannabe flight machines, made by daredevil pioneers who were magested with the prospect of manned fight. Some mechanical propulsion had also some implications like steam engines and gear/spring motors but their power output in congestion with their excessive weight deemed them too heavy for any prospect of flight.

Technical illustration from 1818

 The breakthrough came at last at the end of the 18^th century. On Nov 21, 1783, in Paris,  the first untethered  manned flight became a reality  by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air balloon created on Dec 14, 1782 by the Montgolfier brothers.

The Hindenburg in March 1936.

 The next step and the first study of the air and aviation came at the 19th century with the perfection of the infamous rigid airship more known in our days as Zeppelins.Along with these flying vessels came the first attempts for military use manly as a bombing platform, and the first attempts of scheduled passenger commuting service. These flying devices dominated the skies for the air for the haul 19^th to the 20^th century and paved the way and built the infrastructure for the future breakthrough, the aircraft.

        

        In the very early 20^th century there were many attempts to create an aircraft, with some real misses and a very big death and injury listings. Never the less at 17th December 1903 at Kitty Hawk US of America the Wright Flyer I designed and built by Orville and Wilbur Wright materialized the dreams of countless people in history, achieving the first fixed wing powered aircraft take off/Sustained and controlled fight/and somewhat controlled landing in known history. The first flight lasted 12 seconds for a total distance of 120 ft (36.5 m), but it was more than enough to open the Pandoras box.

This photograph depicts The Flyer on its last flight of December 17, 1903