The Wright Flyer
The Wright Flyer retrospectively referred to as “Flyer 1” or the ‘’1903 Flyer’’, was the first ‘’successful heavier-than-air powered aircraft to achieve controlled sustained flight with a pilot on board’’.It however could not be piloted for more than a minute, that was considering the pilot could even control the aircraft in the first place. Designed and built by the Wright brothers, they flew it four times on the 17th December 1903, before it was retired. It was the flight that marked the beginning of the “pioneer era’’ of aviation.
The Wright Flyer
The Harrier Jump Jet
The British navy had so inspired the Soviet Union that they had designed and created an aircraft called the Yakovlev Yak-38, otherwise known as the Harrier Jump Jet. The Soviet model of the English aircraft failed dismally to imitate its performance. The Harrier is a jet-powered attack plane that is amazingly capable of vertical take-off and landing (they should have named it The Harrier Rocket!)Unfortunately, the Yakovlev couldn’t even manage a mere twenty minutes up in the air on a sunny day and in more appropriate weather the Yakovlev struggled to maintain a speed of 800 miles per hour and had to then make a shaky landing. One of the main features of the aircraft was that it didn’t have wings and maybe that was the fatal flaw!
The Harrier Jump Jet
