Question

2. Name the vehicles used by man to fly before the Wright brothers
flew in their flying machine.​

Answer 1

Answer:

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.

Answer 2

The vehicles were hot air balloons, gliders and ornithopter.

• Leonardo Da Vinci concluded that humans cannot fly by adding wings to arms and wagging them as humans are too weak and heavy. To remedy this, he created a flying contraption.
• Another set of brothers, Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier, invented the first hot air balloon by blowing hot air into a silk bag tied to a basket using smoke from a fire.
• The balloon reached more than a mile at a height of nearly 1,000 feet on its inaugural journey transporting passengers, with numerous small farm animals.
• George Cayley spent his life attempting to figure out how to fly and produced several modifications to his glider designs. His glider was said to be the first to perform considerable and dependable human flights.