Aviation history Part 1 (From Myth to Reality)

Daedalus, a famous Greek architect built for himself and his son Icarus from feathers and wax wings to escape from the prison of King Minos. Icarus, once in the air, I wanted to go up to see the world from above, which came too near the sun, the wax melted and he crashed. (.. 43 BC 18) This legend, the Roman poet Ovid described in epic scale, characterized the main driving forces in the development of aviation technology: improving living conditions and the desire to overcome the operations ground and making dreams come true. Similar legends, myths and dreams are at all times and in all cultures. First concrete designs for flying machines, but according to the example of bird and bat from Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1500). GABorelli but had to know that the man compared with the bird of very little muscle mass, you have to fly some time in their own can (The Movement of living organisms, 1680).

The first trip also takes him to a "lighter than air, with planes, thus creating buoyancy. On November 21, 1783 in Paris rose the first manned hot air balloon with two men of the Montgolfier brothers in heaven and on 1 December, followed by hydrogen balloon JACCharles the physical. Balloons, usually painted well maintained, with dramatic increases in the 19 th century interest in the flight to monitor and promote its further development to the blimp (Giffard, 1852, Renard and Krebs 1884, Santos Dumont, 1901). The blimp was actually started with the first flight of a Zeppelin in the July 1, 1900 Lake Constance. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin had created. The rigid structure consisted of aluminum alloy once exotic, which makes little cheaper in a new electrolytic process has become a thousand times, and therefore was not at all affordable. Alfred Wilm in 1909 invented the duralumin, an alloy of copper and magnesium high strength aluminum that would be important for aviation in general. With Zeppelin airship was taken around 1910, commercial air traffic and the first held in the thirties, including a regular air service across the Atlantic. In May 1937, broke the hydrogen-filled airship LZ129 "Hindenburg" on landing at Lakehurst, New York; 36Passagiere were killed, which meant the end of aviation. Only ship-impact air calls (dirigibles) remained alive as an advertising medium.