The wright brothers
are given credit for the invention of the airplane in 1903. The first
flight lasted a little over 12 seconds at kill devil hill, northern Carolina.
Since then, much progress has made in the world of aviation. The sky wasn’t the
limit here. War and sci-fi stories inspired great minds like Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Werner Von braun to achieve flight beyond the atmosphere, making
space travel a possibility.
The invention of the airplane sped up services in every single field staring with the postal service in 1920. World war II in 1939 kick-started developments in the aviation sector. Countries competed with each other to one-up the others sophisticated developments, with the British developing radar followed by the Germans developing radio wave navigation techniques. Fighter jets, advanced landing systems and high altitude aircraft s followed.
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The invention of the airplane sped up services in every single field staring with the postal service in 1920. World war II in 1939 kick-started developments in the aviation sector. Countries competed with each other to one-up the others sophisticated developments, with the British developing radar followed by the Germans developing radio wave navigation techniques. Fighter jets, advanced landing systems and high altitude aircraft s followed.
In 1947, US air force pilot captain Charles Yeager broke the
sound barrier in the first supersonic flight becoming the fastest man alive.
Commercial flights started not long after and now, well, an
airplane makes a landing somewhere around the world every three seconds!
Air travel is considered to be the safest from of travel in
the world. A funny but true fact reveals that donkeys kill more people annually
than plane crashes. In spite of these phenomenal odds, 80% of the population of
the world has aerophobia, viz fear of flying. In some(5%) this fear is so
intense that they abandon flights and opt for other modes of transport. We’ve come a long way since 1903. In fact the
wingspan of a boeing 747 is longer than the wright brothersfirst flight! The
worls today would be crippled without the discovery of flight. Businesses would
crash, economies would slow down, worse still, holidays would be cancelled
