| The invention of flight by the Wright | | | | |
| brothers has brought about a revolution in | | | | The Voyager?s composite airframe was |
| the world. The concept of speed and distance | | | | lightweight and circled the earth in nine |
| started changing. The impossible started | | | | days. Not only for transporting people from |
| looking possible. The perfect combination of | | | | place to place, certain space shuttle is |
| strength, weight, and carrying capacity has | | | | prepared for space flight. The various |
| been experimented and finally achieved. | | | | mechanical flights include aircraft, |
| | | | aeroplanes, helicopters, airships, balloons |
| The airplanes were previously called ?Kites?! | | | | and spacecraft. Flying an aeroplane is no |
| They did not have much power and were | | | | easy task. It involves various methods like |
| supplied with a lot of wing area. The | | | | taxiing; take off, climb, cruise, descent, |
| streamlined aircrafts came up just before the | | | | flight planning, and landing. Some of the |
| World War I. they has cleaner aerodynamic | | | | early flight pioneers were Abbas Ibn Firnas, |
| shapes and had increased horsepower. During | | | | Amelia Earhart, Alberto Santos Dumont, Armen |
| the First World War, the traditional wooden | | | | Firman, Charles Lindbergh, Richard Pearse and |
| frames were replaced by welded steel tubing. | | | | ultimately the Wright Brothers. |
| Duraluminum was used to prepare all the | | | | |
| assembly-wings, fuselage and tail of the | | | | A taxiway is used for flights to move from |
| flight. | | | | one place to another with the help of wheels, |
| | | | within the airport. The process when the |
| Slowly metal was used to replace the use of | | | | flight, after gathering speed from the |
| wood in preparing the body of the flight. The | | | | runway, leaves the ground and flies into the |
| revolutionary Boeing 247 combined the | | | | air is called takeoff. For light flights, |
| streamlined all-metal semi-monocoque | | | | usually full power is used. Climb involves |
| construction, retractable landing and | | | | getting the flight into the desired cruising |
| variable pitch propellers. Whenever there is | | | | altitude. Cruise involved changing the |
| a war, the nation tries to utilize the best | | | | direction of the flight. The landing of the |
| technology. During World War 2, the jet | | | | flight by decreasing its altitude is known as |
| fighter was developed. An all-composite | | | | descent of a flight. Flight planning is an |
| design was appreciated during 1980s. The | | | | essential part in both private and commercial |
| flight design by Brut Rutan made history by | | | | flights. Landing the flight to ground level |
| flying non-stop around the world without | | | | is the ultimate part of safely handling a |
| refueling. | | | | flight. |