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Katie A
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Can someone wirte out a good breif history of airtravel (how it came about) and its pollution or fuel use/what kind of fuel it used since its been invented?
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Mr. Wizard
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Wright Brothers. Kitty Hawk. Gas powered sputter engine strapped onto a funny wing-framed wood and cloth thing that flew barely a football field's length. The race was on--and many of the first X-type aircraft was born. And like any X-type flight experimentation, that goes on to this day: Few flew---many others (with their pilots), crashed and burned.
WWI: Barnstorming sputter gas engine bi-wing planes--awkward, but easy to fly. So began the birth of the aerial "dog fight", giving legend to Germany's infamous "Red Baron".
In the U.S. and other allied countries, we found a new commercial airline market---and began building safe prop driven aircraft---with plenty of promise for better type aircraft to come.
We also knew the need to build and upgrade our air defenses--putting out more powerful prop engines and plane bodies of steel riveted design. Our Mustang was advesary to the Japanese Zero---who led us into WWII. Once we kicked some Nazi butt--and Hitler took the first radical mind-blowing trip inside his bunker, we thanked the Germans for all the cool whiz-bang JET aircraft research...and their scientists, who we gave all some really nice pre-fab modern houses and U.S. citizenship.
Enter the birth of Pan-Am and Delta JET airlines: Giving post war pilots and pretty women interesting careers. America was on the modern age fast track.
OMG!!! Them commie Reds launch some metal ball satellite called Sputnik I into space---and the darn thing zips over U.S. skies out in space!!! We better fire-on-the-mountain build OUR OWN space hardware to do the same thing---before the Russians build a satellite loaded with missles....lasers....and God knows what else!!!
Elvis sounded good on those speakers built on them there shiny B-52 "air wings" we built and had flying for the U.S. of A!!!
Crack---boom!! Anyone catch that crazy Yeager boy, zipping past something called a "sound barrier"???? Oh....my bad...that happened BEFORE the last sentence....darn, that cat IS fast!!!!
Enter the space race. Which not long later, a young handsome JFK gave America 10 years to figure out how to send men to the Moon and back. Enter NASA and the Gemini and Apollo space missions. Men were MEN, Astronauts were our heroes---and women WANTED them....badly!!!
November 1963: On a cool sunny day in Dallas, the crack of a killer's bullet ended JFK's dream to see his challenge be a reality---but the tragedy was gasoline on the fire to get us to make his dream come true......and we did, with Armstrong's "One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind...." For a couple of years, MTV honored Armstrong's first Moon pose with the American Flag--which ended when MTV souled-out.
And all in between, we built and flew commercial jet aircraft that endlessly evolved with comfort and safety in mind--we even saw one fly at Mach zip-fast speeds!! And today, we have planes that can seat 3,000 people and are about the size of a small apartment building.
And yes, Howard.....the Spruce Goose DID fly!!! I don't know about "brief" but this is the best answer I have on this subject.
WWI: Barnstorming sputter gas engine bi-wing planes--awkward, but easy to fly. So began the birth of the aerial "dog fight", giving legend to Germany's infamous "Red Baron".
In the U.S. and other allied countries, we found a new commercial airline market---and began building safe prop driven aircraft---with plenty of promise for better type aircraft to come.
We also knew the need to build and upgrade our air defenses--putting out more powerful prop engines and plane bodies of steel riveted design. Our Mustang was advesary to the Japanese Zero---who led us into WWII. Once we kicked some Nazi butt--and Hitler took the first radical mind-blowing trip inside his bunker, we thanked the Germans for all the cool whiz-bang JET aircraft research...and their scientists, who we gave all some really nice pre-fab modern houses and U.S. citizenship.
Enter the birth of Pan-Am and Delta JET airlines: Giving post war pilots and pretty women interesting careers. America was on the modern age fast track.
OMG!!! Them commie Reds launch some metal ball satellite called Sputnik I into space---and the darn thing zips over U.S. skies out in space!!! We better fire-on-the-mountain build OUR OWN space hardware to do the same thing---before the Russians build a satellite loaded with missles....lasers....and God knows what else!!!
Elvis sounded good on those speakers built on them there shiny B-52 "air wings" we built and had flying for the U.S. of A!!!
Crack---boom!! Anyone catch that crazy Yeager boy, zipping past something called a "sound barrier"???? Oh....my bad...that happened BEFORE the last sentence....darn, that cat IS fast!!!!
Enter the space race. Which not long later, a young handsome JFK gave America 10 years to figure out how to send men to the Moon and back. Enter NASA and the Gemini and Apollo space missions. Men were MEN, Astronauts were our heroes---and women WANTED them....badly!!!
November 1963: On a cool sunny day in Dallas, the crack of a killer's bullet ended JFK's dream to see his challenge be a reality---but the tragedy was gasoline on the fire to get us to make his dream come true......and we did, with Armstrong's "One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind...." For a couple of years, MTV honored Armstrong's first Moon pose with the American Flag--which ended when MTV souled-out.
And all in between, we built and flew commercial jet aircraft that endlessly evolved with comfort and safety in mind--we even saw one fly at Mach zip-fast speeds!! And today, we have planes that can seat 3,000 people and are about the size of a small apartment building.
And yes, Howard.....the Spruce Goose DID fly!!! I don't know about "brief" but this is the best answer I have on this subject.