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