AviTech Reader

This was mainly a day of the pioneers to make history. I am talking about the Wright brothers. So, we start with 1902, The Wright brothers made the 1^st of nearly 1,000 glides on their modified No. 3 glider in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. It is this glider, made of spruce wood and cloth, which incorporated for the 1^st time the flight controls of the modern airplane.

Just two years after, in 1904, Wilbur Wright on the Flyer III in Huffman Prairie, Ohio made the 1st circular flight.

Let us now check out how engines faired on. Going back to 1945, it’s when a British Gloster Meteor F.1 made the 1^st flight of an aircraft powered completely by turboprop engines. A turboprop or propjet is an aircraft with a propeller that is driven by a gas turbine engine.