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History of Human Flight

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Throughout time, humans have always wanted to fly. This led many people to try and flap artificial wings to fly like birds but this didn’t end up being the best method. Other tecniques like heating air were explored and found to work well, giving us the modern-day hot air ballon. Gliders were also invented to achieve semi-flight but it still wasn’t really flying. Hot air ballons started to be seen as early in the 1700’s but did not become a popular method until later periods in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The most familiar method of human flight we may be with is using propeller or jet-powered airplanes. A basic version of an airplane was flown in the late 19th century and was powered under steam.

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