Lee, Seohui

Class 22

2011-01-25

History Presentation Handout

History of Flight

Table of Contents

Ⅰ. Summary of the history of flight

Ⅱ. First manned flight

Ⅲ. First powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine

Ⅳ. First space flight.

Summary of the History of Flight (Timeline of flight)

 

The First Manned Flight

●Made by Jean Fancois Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes

●Made in a Montgolfier hot air balloon and the flight was their first untethered flight a on 21 November 1783, taking off at around 2p.m.

●Took off from the garden of the Chateau de la Muette in the Bois de Boulogne (a park in France)and returned to the ground at the Butte-aux-Cailles then on the outskirts of Paris

●Was 25 minutes long and travelled about 9km to the southeast

The First powered, sustained, and controlled Flight in a heavier-than-air Machine

●Took to the air on December 17,1903 into a headwind gusting to 43 km/h

●First flight was made by Orville, was 37m high, and its speed was 10.9km/h

●After the men hauled the Flyer back from its fourth flight, wind flipped it over and it was severely damaged and it never flew again.

●The Wright Flyer 1 is now installed in the Smithsonian Institution in USA.

The First Space Flight

●The flight was made by Yuri Gagarin of Soviet

●It was made on 12 April 1961

●He launched to orbit aboard the Vostok 1

●He whistled the tune "The Motherland Hears, The Motherland Knows" in space and said his famous words 'The Earth is blue'