Entry#6: Airplane History

          Hey everyone!  This blog post is going to be about the history of how airplanes came to be and how they got so far from when the Write Brothers had their first flight.  During the spring and summer of 1903, they were consumed with leaping that final hurdle into history.  On December 17th, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights with the  Kitty Hawk, their first powered aircraft.  The Write brothers had invented the first successful airplain.  Little did they know that the ariplain would be used for transportation, war, sport , and even hobbies.
               
          Here are some pictures of the Kitty Hawk the Write borther's built and flew.

Over the many years of engineering and perfecting the airplain had its fair share of ups and downs.  Thus, by working to improve the aircraft, it has given us the advantage in some catagories like transportation to other states and other countries.  Other advantages were with advancing our Air Force, and Naval plains to beat the enemy whenever neccessary.  

The aircraft that the military used in both World Wars would be the Junkers J4 that truned out to be a masterpiece of engineering.  I was built almost entirely of a relatively lightweight aluminum alloy called duralumin, it also featured steel armor around the fuel tanks, crew, and engine and strong, internally braced cantilevered wings. Originaly, these were used for reconnaissance, but were soon turned into offensive weapons, shooting at eachother known as "dog fights" and dropping bombs on the enemy positions.

Then in World War 2, in 1942, Adolf Galland- director general of fighters for the Lufwaffe (German Airforce) veteran of the Battle of Britain, and one of Gemany's top aces- flew a prototype of one of the world's first jets, the Messerschmitt ME 262.  "For the first time, I was flying by jet propulsion and there was on torque, no thrashing sound of the propeller, and my jet shot through the air," he commented. "It was as though angels were pushing."  As Adolf Galland and the others soon realized, the angels were pushing with extraordinary speed.  The ME 262 that Galland flew raced throug the air at 540 miles per hour, some 200 mph faster than its nearest rivals with piston- driven engines.

                                I hope that you enjoyed this post let me know what you think!