| 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 | | | | and circled the earth in nine days. Not only for |
| of speed and distance started changing. The | | | | transporting people from place to place, certain space |
| impossible started looking possible. The perfect | | | | shuttle is prepared for space flight. The various |
| combination of strength, weight, and carrying | | | | mechanical flights include aircraft, aeroplanes, |
| capacity has been 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 |
| not have much power and were supplied with a lot | | | | methods like taxiing; take off, climb, cruise, descent, |
| of wing area. The streamlined aircrafts came up just | | | | flight planning, and landing. Some of the early flight |
| before the World War I. they has cleaner | | | | pioneers were Abbas Ibn Firnas, Amelia Earhart, |
| aerodynamic shapes and had increased horsepower. | | | | Alberto Santos Dumont, Armen Firman, Charles |
| During the First World War, the traditional wooden | | | | Lindbergh, Richard Pearse and ultimately the Wright |
| frames were replaced by welded steel tubing. | | | | Brothers. |
| Duraluminum was used to prepare all the | | | | A taxiway is used for flights to move from one place |
| assembly-wings, fuselage and tail of the flight. | | | | to another with the help of wheels, within the airport. |
| Slowly metal was used to replace the use of wood in | | | | The process when the flight, after gathering speed |
| preparing the body of the flight. The revolutionary | | | | from the runway, leaves the ground and flies into the |
| Boeing 247 combined the streamlined all-metal | | | | air is called takeoff. For light flights, usually full power |
| semi-monocoque construction, retractable landing and | | | | is used. Climb involves getting the flight into the |
| variable pitch propellers. Whenever there is a war, | | | | desired cruising altitude. Cruise involved changing the |
| the nation tries to utilize the best technology. During | | | | direction of the flight. The landing of the flight by |
| World War 2, the jet fighter was developed. An | | | | decreasing its altitude is known as descent of a flight. |
| all-composite design was appreciated during 1980s. | | | | Flight planning is an essential part in both private and |
| The flight design by Brut Rutan made history by | | | | commercial flights. Landing the flight to ground level is |
| flying non-stop around the world without refueling. | | | | the ultimate part of safely handling a flight. |