Jun 11, limited. Aug 11, K2 Communications. Michael Hanrahan Narrator. Stephen Low Director. Stephen Low Writer. Jan Baird Executive Producer. Robert Kresser Executive Producer. Stephen Low Producer. Pietro L. Serapiglia Producer.
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Arcane: League of Legends: Season 1. Daedalus flew successfully from Crete to Naples, but Icarus, tired to fly too high and flew too near to the sun. The wings of wax melted and Icarus fell to his death in the ocean. Alexander the Great Alexander the Great harnessed four mythical wings animals, called Griffins, to a basket and flew around his realm.
Around BC - China The discovery of the kite that could fly in the air by the Chinese started humans thinking about flying.
Kites were used by the Chinese in religious ceremonies. They built many colorful kites for fun, also. More sophisticated kites were used to test weather conditions. Kites have been important to the invention of flight as they were the forerunner to balloons and gliders. Humans try to fly like birds For many centuries, humans have tried to fly just like the birds.
Wings made of feathers or light weight wood have been attached to arms to test their ability to fly. The results were often disastrous as the muscles of the human arms are not like a birds and can not move with the strength of a bird. The ancient Greek engineer, Hero of Alexandria, worked with air pressure and steam to create sources of power.
One experiment that he developed was the aeolipile which used jets of steam to create rotary motion. Hero mounted a sphere on top of a water kettle. A fire below the kettle turned the water into steam, and the gas traveled through pipes to the sphere. Two L-shaped tubes on opposite sides of the sphere allowed the gas to escape, which gave a thrust to the sphere that caused it to rotate.
Leonardo da Vinci made the first real studies of flight in the 's. He had over drawings that illustrated his theories on flight. The Ornithopter flying machine was never actually created. It was a design that Leonardo da Vinci created to show how man could fly. The modern day helicopter is based on this concept.
The brothers, Joseph Michel and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier, were inventors of the first hot air balloon. They used the smoke from a fire to blow hot air into a silk bag. The silk bag was attached to a basket. The hot air then rose and allowed the balloon to be lighter-than-air. In , the first passengers in the colorful balloon were a sheep, rooster and duck. It climbed to a height of about 6, feet and traveled more than 1 mile.
After this first success, the brothers began to send men up in balloons. The legends that are featured also include the first powered flight in the form of a piston engine driven bi-plane, the piston engine powered Lockheed Constellation, the Schleicher Glider, the Harrier VSTOL Jet, and the Airbus The Harrier is cited as one of the legends - its VSTOL capability showing that sheer power and not just aerodynamics alone can be relied on put an object in the air. In the design of the wings of the Dreamliner, the thin long wings could only be achieved by the extensive use of some of the advanced materials available to us today, primarily carbon-fibre composites, which allows lightweight high modulus fibrous material to be aligned in directions where strength is needed, much like the lightweight materials which were used in the very first sail planes where extensive use was made of lightweight wood and sail material.
While carbon-fibre composites is used extensively in military jets to optimise their weight, the extensive use of the new age material in the Dreamliner is in fact a revolution in itself, with the aircraft being the first commercial jetliner to exploit the material fully — aided in part by the leaps and bounds in computing power that now allows extensive and exhaustive analysis to be carried out on a composite structure.
The introduction of carbon-fibre composites, we were to find out later, was not without its problems — an unpredicted weakness at the joint of the wing root to the fuselage that only came to light during static tests resulted in a long delay in which titanium brackets had to be retrofitted to the first six units on the shop floor.
The movie does come with stunning 3D effects — one particular scene that is animated takes you on a ride over the rockies with a Schleicher Glider is especially spectacular, and all in all the flow of the movie makes it not just educational, but also quite entertaining with its thrilling virtual flight sequences, something that is well worth making a trip down to the Omnitheatre for.
Directed by Stephen Low, produced by Pietro L. Serapiglia, and executive produced by K2Communications, Inc. With him, viewers will enjoy the serenity of soaring through majestic mountain peaks and then feel the sheer exhilaration of a Harrier Jump Jet as it leaps into the sky and rockets to tactical speed. The film will then begin an international exhibition schedule.
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