Early flight | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 05/06/2019

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_flying_machines


00:00:20 1 Primitive beginnings
00:00:29 1.1 Legends
00:01:18 1.2 Tower jumpers
00:03:42 1.3 Early kites
00:05:17 1.3.1 Man-carrying kites
00:06:08 1.4 Rotor wings
00:07:06 1.5 Hot air balloons
00:07:57 1.6 The Renaissance
00:10:06 2 Lighter than air
00:10:15 2.1 Balloons
00:17:54 2.2 Dirigibles or airships
00:20:57 3 Heavier than air: parachutes and kites
00:21:07 3.1 Parachutes
00:22:22 3.2 Kites
00:25:21 4 Heavier than air: sustained flight
00:25:31 4.1 The 17th and 18th centuries
00:31:53 4.2 The 19th Century
00:32:21 4.2.1 Sir George Cayley and the first modern aircraft
00:38:40 4.2.2 The age of steam
00:47:58 4.2.3 Learning to glide
00:55:32 4.3 Adding power
00:55:41 4.3.1 Whitehead
00:57:06 4.3.2 Langley
01:01:05 4.3.3 The Wright brothers
01:06:22 4.4 The first practical aircraft
01:06:47 4.4.1 Reliable power
01:10:25 4.4.2 Lift and efficiency
01:12:26 4.4.3 Stability and control
01:18:13 4.4.4 Seaplanes
01:19:15 4.5 Military use
01:22:17 4.6 Helicopters
01:24:16 5 See also



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Early flying machines include all forms of aircraft studied or constructed before the development of the modern aeroplane by 1910. The story of modern flight begins more than a century before the first successful manned aeroplane, and the earliest aircraft thousands of years before.