Airplanes

Have you ever thought about how many people like to travel? To Hawaii, London, or Italy etc. Have you ever thought about how many people would still like to travel even if the invention of an airplane never happened? Imagine having to spend days in a car or on a train just to get to you destination, would you still want to travel? I believe the invention of an airplane was brilliant. The airplane is not only one of the greatest inventions in the 20th century, but also the most wonderful scientific creation of the human history. The inventors of the first airplane were Orville and Wilbur Wright. On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers made the first successful experiment in which a machine carrying a man rose by its own power, flew naturally and at even speed, and descended without damage. That machine was named "airplane". Their achievement was not the matter of only a single day. On the contrary, they had worked day-in and day-out with determination and had invented seven initial shapes of aircraft including one kite, three gliders, and three powered airplanes. Throughout their childhood Wilbur and Orville were encouraged to learn and experiment with new things by their loving parents. The father, Milton, was a bishop in the United Brethren Church and would often be away on trips but would sometimes bring home gifts for the boys. One particular gift started it all. It was the gift of a rubber band-powered helicopter. Right from the beginning Wilbur and Orville tried to make duplicates of the flying toy. The curiosity of the toy stayed with the boys until they were men when they then started to go beyond just a flying helicopter and onto a much larger than life aircraft.

An airplane by definition is an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets. Most of us only have to look up into the sky to see an airplane, and many of us have traveled by airplane to places that would have taken much longer to get to if we using a different