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12 Cards in this Set
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First person to attempt to fly using what is described as a parachute |
Armen Firman |
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Saw Chinese sailors attached to kites as "eyes in the sky" |
Marco Polo |
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Fascinated with bird flight and tried to develop ornithopter. |
Leonardo da Vinci
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He was the first aviator given credit for the first heavier than air flight by humans. |
Orville Wright |
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Came up with the three laws of motion. |
Sir Isaac Newton |
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For every action there is and equal and opposite reaction. |
3rd Law of Motion |
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He found that when fluid starts to move faster, pressure starts to drop. |
Daniel Bernoulli |
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Lift that is created as the aircraft moves down the runway. |
Induced lift or Bernoullian Lift |
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The two phases of bird flight. |
Ground phase and lift phase |
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Unverified story handed down from earlier times. |
Legend |
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Designing an aircraft to reduce resistance to motion through the air. |
Stremlining |
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The Greek story about a father and son who tried to escape from King Minos. |
Daedalus and Icarus |
