| The invention of flight by the Wright brothers has | | | | The Voyager's composite airframe was lightweight |
| brought about a revolution in the world. The concept of | | | | and circled the earth in nine days. Not only for |
| speed and distance started changing. The impossible | | | | transporting people from place to place, certain space |
| started looking possible. The perfect combination of | | | | shuttle is prepared for space flight. The various |
| strength, weight, and carrying capacity has been | | | | mechanical flights include aircraft, aeroplanes, |
| experimented and finally achieved. | | | | helicopters, airships, balloons and spacecraft. Flying an |
| The airplanes were previously called "Kites"! They did | | | | aeroplane is no easy task. It involves various methods |
| not have much power and were supplied with a lot of | | | | like taxiing; take off, climb, cruise, descent, flight planning, |
| wing area. The streamlined aircrafts came up just | | | | and landing. Some of the early flight pioneers were |
| before the World War I. they has cleaner aerodynamic | | | | Abbas Ibn Firnas, Amelia Earhart, Alberto Santos |
| shapes and had increased horsepower. During the | | | | Dumont, Armen Firman, Charles Lindbergh, Richard |
| First World War, the traditional wooden frames were | | | | Pearse and ultimately the Wright Brothers. |
| replaced by welded steel tubing. Duraluminum was | | | | A taxiway is used for flights to move from one place |
| used to prepare all the assembly-wings, fuselage and | | | | to another with the help of wheels, within the airport. |
| tail of the flight. | | | | The process when the flight, after gathering speed |
| Slowly metal was used to replace the use of wood in | | | | from the runway, leaves the ground and flies into the |
| preparing the body of the flight. The revolutionary | | | | air is called takeoff. For light flights, usually full power is |
| Boeing 247 combined the streamlined all-metal | | | | used. Climb involves getting the flight into the desired |
| semi-monocoque construction, retractable landing and | | | | cruising altitude. Cruise involved changing the direction |
| variable pitch propellers. Whenever there is a war, the | | | | of the flight. The landing of the flight by decreasing its |
| nation tries to utilize the best technology. During World | | | | altitude is known as descent of a flight. Flight planning is |
| War 2, the jet fighter was developed. An all-composite | | | | an essential part in both private and commercial flights. |
| design was appreciated during 1980s. The flight design | | | | Landing the flight to ground level is the ultimate part of |
| by Brut Rutan made history by flying non-stop around | | | | safely handling a flight. |
| the world without refueling. | | | | |