Dream of Flight Flashcards
Who were the very first to fly
Chinese, first to fly in contraptions heavier than air
-Yuan Huangtou
Who was Henri Giffard? what could his invention do?
- French Engineer
- Achieved powered flight
- hydrogen +steamengine/propeller
- could control down left right but not up so well
Who was clement Ader?
French engineer
- created engine/propeller that kind of looked like bats
- had mono-wing design
- most machines didn’t work
- one did, made few loops and crashed
Who was David Schwarz?
- creation inventor
- created dirigible airship with internal combustion engine
- crashed and died
What did Schwarz widow do when he died?
-sold husbands plan to zeppelin
Why were zeppelins the worst tech
- rocket fuel paint
- could carry few people
- flew at low alt.
- hindenburg
What were the wright brothers professions? what did they experiment with?
bicycle producers. experimented with wind tunnels
What were 3 innovations the Wright Brothers attained with their planes?
- longer narrower wings which were slightly curved
- control system
- modern propeller
Who built the combustion engine for the wright brothers?
Charles Taylor,
what was the model 3
first warplane, sold to us army from wright brothers
what happened to the wright brothers planes by the outbreak of WWI? why?
-spent so much time fighting lawsuits that their planes were obsolete
What were the limitations of the propeller?
propellers could only move so fast, obsolete by the start of WW2
Who was Henri Coanda
- Romanian scientist
- first jet plane
- used internal combustion engine to get thrust.
- during test it burned
- didn’t pursue farther, focussed on math and physics
Who was Frank Whittle
- owned Jet LTD
- no interest from government
- alsomade turbo jet
- flaw was that he had external fuel burners, couldn’t expand, after war tech given to soviets british and Canada
WHo was Hans Von Ohain
German PHysiscist
- HeS3 engine
- first turbo jet engine
