Kayla Johansen

Annie Trojacek

Introduction to Engineering and Design

September 2012

Airplanes

Infatuated with flying

Studied birds

Mocked birds

Birds

Glider

Ornihopter

Helicopter

Parachute

Leonardo's Design

Samuel Pierpont Langley

Model with combustion engine

Prototype

First Flying Model

Dayton, Ohio

Owners of bicycle repair shop

1903 in North Carolina

Success

Wright Brothers“No flying machine will ever fly from

New York to Paris ... [because] no

known motor can run at the requisite

speed for four days without stopping.”

- Orville Wright

Large improvements

Quick production

Large military use

Metal Plane: Junkers J4

World War I (1914-1918)

1927Charles Lindbergh

New York to Paris

“The Spirit of

St. Louis”

Atlantic Ocean

Amelia Earhart

Wales landing

National Geographic Award in 1932 for solo flight

Ireland

1928

19331935193719391950’s1969

Other Important Dates

B2 Bomber

Stealth Bomber

Spirit Bomber

Northrop Grumman

1989

Solar powered plane

24 hour flight

2010

“The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.” – Orville Wright

The wright brothers biography page. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://wrightbrothers.info/biography

Airplane timeline. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3728

Leonardo da vinci flying machine - the flight of genius. (2009, June 02). Retrieved from http://www.leonardo-da-vinci-biography.com/leonardo-da-vinci-flying-machine.html

Wwi. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/WWi/Aero5G1.htm

(n.d.). Retrieved from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Johansen, P. (2012, September 18). Personal interview.

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