Thursday, November 20, 2008

The invention of aircraft




Neolithic age which is the new stone age is when people started farming. When people started to farm they have more time to think for new inventions and that is why I chose aircraft. Since airplanes is one of passion I would want to share with you what I know about them.
In December 17 1903 the wright brothers which is Orville and and Wilbur invented the first plane. It was made out of paper and wood. When they started building plane the technology of making planes improved.
The second person was Howard Hughes. In 1947 he made the biggest plane in history which called the Spruce Goose. It is used for carrying army men during the second world war,how ever when Howard Hughes was piloting a new plane that he design it crashed. Luckily Howard survive the crash and he was in the hospital for a long time and the the Spruce Goose was left incomplete. In 1947 Howard asked his company to continue to build the Spruce Goose and when it was complete it was the biggest plane in the history. In April 5 1976 Howard died of kidney failure.
The next generation of the Spruce Goose is a new plane called AC-130 H. It is used by the military. It is a gunship so it can shoot over 300 missiles at once !!!!!!!!!
The new technology was made in the early 2000's. It is called the stealth. It is made out of aluminum foil so that is undetectable by enemy radar. The most advance stealth plane is the B2 spirit. It is a bomber which is a plane that carry high explosive bombs. It can carry only 2 bombs because one bomb is very big to fit inside the aircraft.
This is important because we don't have to take a long boat ride to other country or places. We could just fly.

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