The history of airplane takes us back to 1903 when Orville and Wilbur Wright invented the first airplane.From then airplane has been a man's magnificent discovery. On 17th Dec 1903, The Wright brothers made a first successful experiment in which a machine (airplane) rose from the land carrying a man in it by its own power, flew and landed without any damage.
However before invention of airplane inventors, made numerous attempts to make an airplane. Kites, hot air balloons, gliders were among some inventions that were made in an effort to make airplane.
More than 50% of world population has flown in airplane.
And everyone wants to know how it works.
How that massive thing can fly in the
air?
The forces that affect in airplane are the weight, the
lift produced by airflow over the wings, the thrust produced by the engine and
the air resistant. Airplane needs thrust and lift to overcome its weight.
These two things are the main part without the aircraft couldn't fly.
1. Wings:
A principle in physics sates that “Faster moving air has lower pressure then slower moving air.” The wings of an airplane are designed in such a way that slices through the air and pushes air through top and under its bottom surface. Wings curved shape designed to move air at a higher speed at the top surface compared to its bottom surface. The higher pressure of the air pushes the bottom of the wings which causes the lift. This helps aircraft to fly.
A principle in physics sates that “Faster moving air has lower pressure then slower moving air.” The wings of an airplane are designed in such a way that slices through the air and pushes air through top and under its bottom surface. Wings curved shape designed to move air at a higher speed at the top surface compared to its bottom surface. The higher pressure of the air pushes the bottom of the wings which causes the lift. This helps aircraft to fly.
2. Engine (Turbine):
Turbine is also an essential part to the plane as wings.
An airplane need thrust to take off and move forward in the air which is
provided by the engine. Airplanes need high air pressure to take off from the
ground. The engine provides all the needed speed to the aircraft which helps it
to fly or stay on the air. The turbine sucks the air and compresses it to 3% of
its original volume and forced at high pressure in to the combustion chamber
which create a high forced air to backward which causes forward acting trust.
This helps aircraft to gain speed and air pressure it needed to takeoff from
the ground.
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