This time, we'll talk about famous flyers and other gliders.
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So let's get to the first flyer, Amelia Earhart!
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She only had a can of tomato juice and a chocolate bar stocked in her single engine Lockheed Vega.
HOW CRAZY IS THAT?!?!?!
She took off at the coast of Newfoundland. During her flight, her altimeter stopped working. Then, her wings and windshield started to freeze over in a awful ice storm! To make the ice melt, she flew awfully low. After 15 hours of flying, she landed in a meadow in Northern Ireland, startling a farmer and his cows. She had flown 2,026 miles away from where she took off and became famous for her skill and bravery.
Now let's talk about the Wright Brothers.
Orville and Wilbur Wright were the creators of the first successful airplane.
In their plane, the pilot was supposed to lay on his stomach on the bottom wing and steer with an apparatus attached to his hips, while the engine was running. Even though the first flight lasted 59 seconds, they became famous for making the first working airplane.
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| Wright brothers testing the plane. |
Bessie Coleman was the first female African American to have a pilot license. She had to walk 4 miles to school every day and she studied very hard. Since she couldn't get into flight schools in America, so she went to France and got her pilots license there. Then she returned to America and became a barnstormer stunt pilot. After she became a stunt pilot, she was known as "Queen Bess." (But she didn't rule over anything! Of course she didn't because America is free!!)
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| Queen Bess, the famous barnstormer. |
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Two famous gliders were made by George Cayley, and Tito Livio Burattini.
George Cayley found out about the 4 forces of flight (Remember the last post?) and came up with a concept for a modern airplane. It was able to fly a 10 year old boy down a several yard downhill slope. It became known as the "boy carrier."
Tito Livio Burattini was a Italian scientist that invented a glider that looked kind of like a dragon. It had 4 glider wings and was able to carry a body, but not a human body. Do you know what it was?
A. Dog
B. Cat
C. Hamster
D. Easter Bunny
Write your answer in the comments. I'll tell the answer in the next post.
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I hope you guys liked the post. If you did, then please poke that like button. In the next post, I will be talking about my gliders and paper airplanes. I will see you in the next post. BYE!! <3
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