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The role of aeroplane in the modern times
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The airplane; easily one of most influential inventions of the 20th century, if not all time. Let’s be honest, nothing has come along that has revolutionized our world as much as aviation. Granted, the internet is a pretty decent invention, it didn’t shrink the world as much as it did connect it. Air travel really made this world small, changing travel times from months to hours. A question I’ve posed is how would the world differ if the airplane would have never been invented? To answer this, we need to dive into the history and making of the airplane, and its growth throughout the past 112 years.
Flight has been in the dreams and imaginations of man as long as history can tell. For ages, people believed that sticking feathers to their arms would help them fly. Unfortunately those who believed that failed tremendously. It wasn’t until somewhat recently when man took to the air in a craft heavier than air. Most people believe that the Wright brothers invented the airplane. Now, it is true that they were the first humans to achieve heavier-than-air flight, (although there is an interesting argument that a New Zealand aviator made a successful flight twice as long as the Wright’s several months prior), but they certainly were not the first, or only people who were working on flying.
In fact, a dozen or so people had already made flights in heavier-than-air crafts, but these crafts had no engines, and therefore served no practical purpose other than for the advancement in aeronautics and heavier-than-air flight. Even then people had been flying in dirigibles and balloons for close to 1000 years. The first recorded glider flight occurred in 1010, when an English monk jumped from a tower and glided 200 meters. He was injured but lived to tell the tale, making this a tremendous step forward in flight. However, a safe, sustained, manned flight did not occur until the 18th century, when the Montgolfier brothers made the first successful hot air balloon flight. Europe is accredited with the majority of the advancements in aviation in the pre-Wright era days, with many successful balloon and dirigible flights, as well as pioneering the advancement of gliding. Otto Lilienthal was one of these great pioneers. He made countless successful flights in his gliders, but tragically, died while flying. On his deathbed, he is quoted as saying “sacrifices must be made.”