The Flying Men
Who knows when a human first dreamed of flying like a bird . It is
important to recognize flying, its effect on people and their communication
has changed because of flight. I believe that the invention of airplanes
just enhanced the way people communicate and how they relate. Literature
as a form of communication, was one of the many things that was only
improved by the invention of the airplane, because of several reasons.
Who invented the airplane? Orville Wright (1871 - 1948) and Wilbur
Wright (1867 - 1912) American airplane inventors, brothers. "Their
interest in flying aroused by Lilienthal's glider flights of
1890's."(Rosenblum 7). In addition to Lilienthal's influence, ...
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brothers experimented
with mechanical things Wilbur would come up with the ideas and Orville
would analyse and implement them." (McMahon 23).
The two brothers opened a shop in 1896 to build and repair bicycles.
The same year, Otto Lilienthal was killed when his glider crashed and the
Wrights began to search the problems of human flight. After reading all
the information they could find in Dayton, Wilbur wrote to the Smithsonian
Instituion to ask for all the information it had on aeronautics. The
brothers showed pure dedication. They read books, works by Lilienthal's
The Problem of flying, Practical Experiments in Soaring, Chanute's
Process in Flying Machines, and Langley's writings, among others. They
discovered that no one had successfully dealt with the basic need for
controlling a flying machine. Their conclusion came from a simple yet
important part of communication that simply evolved with their invention :
Literature.
In 1899, Wilbur and Orville Wright built ...
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they had built before." (Hobbs 42).
They began flying it at Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk, in July, and it
flew so well they were able to make flights of almost 400 feet. in winds
up to 27 miles per hour. They were learning to fly and were well along the
way of becoming the first skilled pilots. Even so, as soon as they
attempted to make turns, they ran into problems, which persisted in August.
Discouraged, the brothers returned to Dayton. The Wrights began to desing
their number 3 glider, which was the largest yet, after extensive
laboratory research and experimentation using a wind tunnel (a long box
with a fan at one end) used to stimulate the movement of a wing through ...
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