World History
Aug 14, 2015
How planes were invented?
Men dream to fly. the Greek myth around 1000 B.C.
Kites flown around a year 400 BC in china
Leonardo da Vinci spent most of his life exploring flight and left the world about 160 documents of sketches and observations about flight.
Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier designed the first successful flying craft.
HISTORY OF AIRPLANES
WHAT IS AIRPLANE?
An airplane is a vehicle heavier than air, powered by an engine, which travels through the air by the reaction of air passing over its wings.
"Flight is possible to man...[and] I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life". - Wilbur Wright
WRIGHT BROTHERSOrville Wright (1871-1948)
and Wilbur Wright(1867-1912)
Orville Wright & Wilbur Wright - First Piloted & Powered Airplane
At 10:35 a.m. on December 17, 1903, Orville Wright flew the Flyer for 12 seconds over 120 feet of ground.
POSTIVE IMPACT.
Saves time
Trade
Economical advancement
Better communication
Comfortable
Social cultural exchange
HIJACKINGThe first recorded aircraft hijack
took place on February 21, 1931.The world's first fatal hijacking
occurred on 28 October 1939.Between 1948 and 1957, there
were 15 hijackings worldwide
Casualties of a mass panic during a June 1941 Japanese bombing of Chongqing. More than 5000 civilians died during the first two days of air raids in 1939[19]
RASHID MINHAS
A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi