THE KNOWLEDGE MEDIA INSTITUTE

History of Flight

Key events

Flights of fancy

Models

Aerodynamics

How planes fly

Historical development

Aero-engines

Flyers

Cayley

Lilienthal

Phillips

The Wright Brothers

Santos-Dumont

Cody

Links

About FirstFlight

Accessibility

Cayley - engines - 1805



The 1805 ornithopter is unlikely to have even moved under its own power.



If the engine had worked for more than a few strokes, and if the flappers had held together, then the 1850 monoplane might just have worked...