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Flying Machines Flight Poster |
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B201
Quest for Flight
Humans have long sought to
soar in the sky, just like birds. This informative and
visually striking poster shows what it took to accomplish
that seemingly impossible goal.
The bottom row shows man’s earliest attempts to fly. Moving
up the poster, the most important discoveries, inventions
and events are presented in chronological order. The great
aviation pioneers are honored by a portrait and a brief
biography. In the late 1700s, English engineer Sir George
Cayley correctly identified the four forces that would
affect a flying machine. A century later, Lawrence Hargrave
discovered the lift provided by a cambered wing. About that
time, Octave Chanute compiled and published the first
organized, written collection of aviation research. He
shared his knowledge with many aviation pioneers.
Americans Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first
controlled flight of a heavier than air machine on December
17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It flew 120 feet in
12 seconds. Their Flyer was very experimental, and it
took the Wright brothers three more years to make it
reasonably practical. Some of the valuable improvements made
by other early aviators are incorporated in the two planes
shown above the Flyer. |
Laminated |
No. B201L |
$12.95 |
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Non-Laminated |
No. B201F |
$7.95 |
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SAMPLE IMAGES |
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1852 Giffard airship. |
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1890 Adler Eole
monoplane |
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1906 Dumont - first
aileron |
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