Humans Trying to Fly in Ancient Times
The materials Daedalus and his son Icarus made wings from.
Bird Feathers
Invented the kite
The Chinese
The year gunpowder was invented
AD 800
DaVinci's invention that looked similar to a helicopter
Airscrew
Makes a bird well suited for flight
Hollow bones
The act of passing through the air on wings
Flight
Year the kite was invented
1000 BC
Large cylindrical object tha moves very fast by forcing burning gaes out one end of the tube
Rocket
Modern device based on principles first described by Da Vinci to allow someone to "throw himself down from any height without sustaining any injury"
Parachute
Phase of bird flight that allows the bird to get started moving forward for the wings to provice the necessary lift
Ground phase
Some early inventors made flying devices from this material.
Cloth
The dude that saw Chinesse sailors using kites to observe enemy actions during battle
Marco Polo
What the Chinese mostly used rockets for
Celebrations
First aircraft that had directional control
Glider
How a bird moves forward to create lift
Flapping its wings
The first known human to attempt to fly
Armen Firman
Chinese General who used kites to scout his enemy's position
Han Hsin
The man who fastened 47 rockets to a chair
Wan Hoo
How the ornithopter gets its upward and forward motion
Flapping wings
Figure the wing tips of a bird makes when in flight
Figure eight
Armen Firmen used this in his first attempt to fly
How Chinese soldiers determined how far away an enemy was when using a kite
Attached long measuring ropes to the kites
Three ingredients in gunpowder
Potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur
Orni- comes from the Greek word for what?
Bird
The directions bird feathers push