AIRCRAFT AN INTRODUCTION Look up There are all sorts of machines flying through the air Learn what carries people through the sky Read more about aircraft from the first hot air balloon flight to today's jet airplanes Many people worked to make human flight happen Find out how today's flying machines work Discover the invention of flight for yourself
TYPES OF AIRCRAFT JET AIRPLANE GLIDER HELICOPTER HOT AIR BALLOON PROPELLER PLANE HOVERCRAFT
AIRCRAFT INNOVATORS WRIGHT BROTHERS The most famous of all the flight innovators were the Wright brothers They spent their lives researching flight Then they taught the world how to fly The brothers worked for years perfecting flying machines They moved to windy Kitty Hawk North Carolina to test their ideas on flight WILBUR WRIGHT ORVILLE WRIGHT
OTHER IMPORTANT PEOPLE Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d Arlandes They were the first to fly in a hot air balloon Charles A Lindbergh The first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean Amelia Earhart The first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean Otto Lilienthal The King of Gliders inspired many to take flight Many days they would go out and test flying machines and make notes In 1903 they made the first powered flight It lasted less than one minute but it was the beginning of air travel
