1. Flight By Patrick Wolfgang

2. The basics of flight During takeoff an air plane taxies down a runway. It keeps gathering speed until it has enough lift to pull it self off the ground. There are three ways an airplane moves. It can go up and down. It can roll from side to side and it can turn right and left. During landing flaps on the backs of the wings are lowered slowing the plane.

3. Gliders Are a engineless plane that has to be pulled by a plane until they are going fast enough to take off. Once in the air gliders can do all most of the things a plane can do.

4. Flight history In 1783 the Montgolfier brothers lunch the first hot air balloon. In 1909 French pilot Louis Bleriot makes the first flight across the English channel. By 1915 planes are equipped with machine guns and bombs. In 1927 American pilot Charles Lindbergh makes the first nonstop solo crossing of the Atlantic ocean. In 1933 the Boeing 247 becomes the first modern type of passenger air plane. It can carry 10 passengers. In 1949 the first nonstop around the world flight is made in a plane called the Lucky lady ll.

5. Balloons In the late 1700s and the early 1800s people went ballooning for pleasure. They also held balloon races during that time. The first people to fly in a hot air balloon were Jean François Pilatre and marquis d’Arlandes. Mar

6. Birds Here are some common birds and how fast they can fly. The common Crane and the White Stork can fly 42 mph. The Carrion crow can fly 31 mph. The last bird is the Hummingbird witch can fly 27 mph.

7. How Birds and Planes are Alike One way they are alike is that they can both fly. Another way they are alike is that they both use their tail to help them turn.

8. Space history The first space rocket is launched in the Soviet Union in 1957. The first Earthling to travel into space was a dog named Laika witch was from the Soviet Union. In 1969 American astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on the moon. In 1986 the space shuttle Challenger explodes killing all seven members of its crew including a high school teacher.

9. Engines Planes Use Modern passenger planes use a engine called a turbofan. It has a big fan in the front that draws air in to the engine witch gets ignited when it passes the combustor and then pass the turbine. The last thing the air goes to is out of back of the engine. But in the military they use engines that are called turbo jets that are a lot nosier but faster.

10. Fun fact The Daedalus a human powered airplane, broke the records for straight-line human powered flight, distance, and time aloft on April 23, 1988. Kanellos Kanellopoulous pedaled 74 miles across the Aegean Sea in 3 hours and 54 minutes. The plane's wingspan was 112 feet.

11. Resource: Kids Discover Flight November 1991

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