![]() He successfully completed multiple glider flights, more than 2500, from hills around the Rhinow region in Germany. One of the most influential aviators of the time was German Otto Lilienthal. After this, throughout the latter part of the 19th century, glider designs got more complicated, and these new styles allowed for more control than their predecessors. ![]() Technology Improvesįast forward just over 50 years and Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Bris achieved the first ‘powered’ flight with his glider pulled by a horse along the beach. Using these principles, Cayley successfully made the first model airplane, and because of this, he is often considered the ‘father of aviation.’ Cayley correctly deduced that continuous flight over a considerable distance required a power source to be affixed to the airplane that could provide the required thrust and lift without weighing the aircraft down. This demonstrates Newton’s third law that the reaction to a moving object is equal and opposite.
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