Flights

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Flights
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Timeline
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First flyers
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Flying in and around
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The idea generation
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Facts
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Fun facts

• Insects, birds, and bats fly by moving wings up
  and down. In the 1400s, Leonardo da Vinci
  sketched machines that would flap birdlike wings,
  but he did not try to build them. Later, people
  learned that machines with flapping wings are
  difficult to power and control.
• In the early 1800s, George Cayley developed an
  easier way to fly. Cayley studied bird wings and
  recognized that their curved upper surfaces lift
  the bird as air flows over them. Cayley first
  built a small kite to test his idea. By 1808, he
  had invented the glider, essentially an airplane
  without an engine. In 1853, one of Cayley's
  gliders became the first heavier-than-air craft
  to lift a human for a sustained flight. In the
  1890s, several efforts to use a steam engine to
  turn a propeller and lift a glider failed, partly
  because steam engines are heavy and partly
  because of the difficulty of controlling flight.
• In 1903 the Wright brothers combined a
  lightweight gasoline engine with controls that
  enabled the craft to safely fly level and also
  turn at the pilot's order. Their flight on
  December 17, 1903, is considered the birthday of
  the airplane, although the first sustained
  flights took place five years later.

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• The airplane has had a greater impact on our
  lives than any other modern invention. The
  ability to fly has dramatically increased the
  speed at which we can travel and decreased the
  time it takes to receive mail, food, and other
  goods from far-off places. It has brought us into
  closer contact with people in other parts of the
  world, and it has drastically changed the way we
  wage war.
• Yet, until the beginning of the 20th century, the
  idea of a practical flying machine was only a
  dream. Balloons and gliders had been flown before
  1900, but they were unreliable and could not
  carry a person over a long distance and land at a
  chosen destination. It was not until Orville and
  Wilbur Wright invented and successfully flew the
  first powered, controllable aircraft that the
  dream of flight became a reality. On December 17,
  1903, the Wrights' plane, the Flyer, took off at
  Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and flew 120 feet (37
  meters).
• The airplane has changed greatly since 1903. The
  wingspan of a modern jumbo jet is longer than the
  entire distance flown on the Wright brothers'
  first flight. That flight lasted only 12 seconds
  in 1986 a plane named Voyager was flown around
  the world in nine days without stopping or
  refueling. Airplanes have been flown at more than
  4,500 miles (7,300 kilometers) per hour and to
  altitudes of almost 70 miles (110 kilometers)
  above the earth. But no matter how fast, high, or
  far airplanes fly, they are still subject to the
  same basic principles of flight as the Wright
  Flyer.

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Ground operations

• Ground Operations involves all aspects of
  aircraft handling at airports as well as aircraft
  movement around the aerodrome, except on active
  runways. The safety challenges of ground
  operations arise, in part, directly from those
  operations
• Airport ground operations Training involves in
  lot of hardships which one needs to overcome

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History
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