The notion that man could fly or someday would be able to achieve flight has long since been an idea of man for literally centuries. As early as 400 BC, a Greek scholar by the name of Archytas built a wooden pigeon that moved through the air. Approximately 100 years later the Chinese developed kites, which are a form of gliders, which much later in history, allowed humans to fly in them (1). Mans first attempts at flight …
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…that we may someday have personal flying cars as a way of commuting and shuttles that will transport us to hotels in space. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Bibliography; 1. http://www.geocities.com/~mkoop/history/1950_present.html 2. http://www.scaled.com/projects/voyager/voyager.html 3. http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/Voyager/HTML/index.html 4. http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/X-1/HTML/index.html 5. http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/X-38/HTML/index.html