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
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A very simple fight model - just for fun. Does this give us a sense of how the Wright Brothers 'worked' to stay in the air on a windy day?
Click and drag up and down to fly. Go too high and you will stall. Go too low and you will hit the ground.