History and Varieties of Aircrafts

By Ahmed Anwar

The human race has always been fascinated with idea of flight for eons. For the most part, airplane history suggesting construction a flying contrivance that posses the capability of defying gravity, all the while having on board a group of people has only been in place since the eighteenth century. Earlier on evidence has shown that people designed winged apparatus that was to function like the wings of a bird. These flying contraptions were known as ornithopters. In the planning stages the notion seemed to project success but a problem arose on the first attempts to take to flight as the individual together with their machine were too heavy in comparison to the weight of a bird.

More recent airplane history is attributed to the contributions of the Wright brothers with their technological advancements in the aviation industry which revolutionized as we know it. Orville and Wilbur appealed for exclusive rights to a "flying contraption" nine months prior to their triumphant flight attempt in December nineteen hundred and three, which Orville Wright documented in his journal. As an integral part of the brothers' methodical observance of photographing each model and test of their assorted flying technologies, they had an assistant take evidentiary photographs of Orville first successful flight thereby archiving airplane history.

An ample range of aircrafts exist showing the types of airplanes that are assembled in this contemporary era. Airplanes can be classified into three all-embracing classes characterizing commercial passenger liners, armed forces planes or sea planes. Commercial jet liners are very massive planes which are made to carry travelers together with consignment. Commercial aircrafts can moreover be classified into four-engine, three and two engine jumbo jets. The four-engine jumbo liner however, still is the most prevalent with capabilities of conveying up to a thousand travelers.

The next in the list of types of airplanes are those utilized by the armed forces known as military aircrafts. The planes were designed to withstand enemy fire in combat and will include tactical maneuvers and can launch an offensive against hostile fire both from ground level and the sky. Moreover, they can convey both personnel and military freight.

Sea planes are categorized as types of planes which offer three variations. The first is the float aircraft which is attached with huge floats to land on water. Then there are fly boats which look like the hull of a boat, a design to suspend it on water and lastly is the amphibian which is go on both land and sea. - 20605

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