Part one of term paper
The story of is a Puritan fairy tale. It is the story of how two honest, straightforward, and God-fearing Americans accomplished something fantastic and magical -- creating a craft of stick and fabric that mounted the air like the chariots of the gods, opening the sky to all humankind. Their success came so suddenly and from such an unexpect ...

Part two of term paper
... has a dark and unhappy ending. Around the turn of the century, dozens of people were working hard to invent the airplane. The period of active experimentation begins in 1891, when noted German engineer Otto Lilienthal began experimenting with hang gliders. Lilienthal took seriously the ideas advocated by Sir George Cayley almost a hundred years earlier. Through an extensive study of birds and bird flight, Cayley realized that the lift function and the thrust function of bird wings were separate and ...