The History of Flight by Katie Burton |
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This is the skeleton of a modern bird. Birds can fly because their bones are light and they have strong pectoral muscles. |
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| This is Leonardo Da Vinci. He predicted when the world would end and had lots of inventions. This is one of the flying machines which he designed. |
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This is Sir Isaac Newton.He formulated the laws of motion. |
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This is Sir George Cayley and is his flying machine. |
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Otto Lillienthal made handgliders. Here he is with his handglider. |
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| This is The Wright Brothers with their plane.They devised the first controls on a plane. |
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Sir Frank Whittle invented the jet
engine which led to the development of modern aeroplane. |
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Maybe sometime in the future our
planes will look like this. |
A presentation By Katie Burton. |
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