AMT 1102 - Theory of Flights

Ancient Greek Engineer, worked with air, pressure, and steam to create sources of power. He developed w/c using jets of steam to create a rotary motion.

• Heron Alexandrinus

• Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

• Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• George Cayley

His publication in 1680 described bird flight as the combined effect of the action of the individual feathers as they twist and turn during flight and the complex flapping of the wings, and claimed to prove that human musculature was far too weak to support a system of this kind.

• Heron Alexandrinus

• Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

• Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• George Cayley

Published 'De Motu Animalum'

• Heron Alexandrinus

• Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

• Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• George Cayley

Designed the first successful flying craft.

• Heron Alexandrinus

• Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

• Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• George Cayley

set in motion the future study of aerodynamics in a single sentence. "The whole problem is confined within these limits, namely to make a surface support a given weight by the application of power to the resistance of air."

• Heron Alexandrinus

• Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

• Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• George Cayley

He was the first to discover how wings work. Discovered that wings are lifted in the air. He also constructed the first aircraft that was heavier than air. He is now recognized as the father of aviation. He came up with many principles of heavier-than-air flight.

• Heron Alexandrinus

• Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

• Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• George Cayley

First successful airplane

• Heron Alexandrinus

• Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

• Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• George Cayley

Kites flown in China around the year ________

• 400 B.C.

• 1020 A.D.

• 1680

• 1903