4. How planes were invented?
Men dream to fly.
the Greek myth around 1000 B.C.
Kites flown around a year 400 BC in china
5. Leonardo da Vinci spent most of his life exploring flight and
left the world about 160 documents of sketches and
observations about flight.
Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier designed the first successfu
flying craft.
6.
7. HISTORY OF AIRPLANES
WHAT IS AIRPLANE?
An airplane is a vehicle
heavier than air, powered by
an engine, which travels
through the air by the
reaction of air passing over
its wings.
8. "Flight is possible to
man...[and] I feel that
it will soon cost me an
increased amount of
money if not my life". -
Wilbur Wright
WRIGHT BROTHERS
Orville Wright (1871-1948)
and Wilbur Wright
(1867-1912)
9. Orville Wright & Wilbur Wright -
First Piloted & Powered Airplane
At 10:35 a.m. on December 17,
1903, Orville Wright flew the Flyer
for 12 seconds over 120 feet of
ground.
15. HIJACKING
The first recorded aircraft hijack took
place on February 21, 1931.
The world's first fatal hijacking
occurred on 28 October 1939.
Between 1948 and 1957, there were
15 hijackings worldwide
18. Casualties of a mass panic
during a June 1941
Japanese bombing of
Chongqing. More than 5000
civilians died during the first two
days of air raids in 1939[19]
