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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 68. Chapters: Wright brothers, George Cayley, Gerald Bull, Kelly Johnson, Frederick W. Lanchester, Qian Xuesen, Theodore Theodorsen, Richard von Mises, Adrian Newey, Theodore von Karman, Octave Chanute, Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Alexander Lippisch, Hugh Latimer Dryden, Ludwig Prandtl, John Joseph Montgomery, Ramesh K. Agarwal, Gaetano Crocco, Robert H. Scanlan, Robert T. Jones, Albert Francis Zahm, Mark D. Maughmer, Herbert A. Wagner, Cheng Xu, Wolfgang Haack, Milton Van Dyke, Adolf Busemann, John D. Anderson, Ry ichi Yazu, Eastman Nixon Jacobs, Dietrich Kuchemann, Richard T. Whitcomb, Ernst R. G. Eckert, Bob Bell, Michael Max Munk, Martin Wilhelm Kutta, Hendrik Tennekes, Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky, Jurgen Czarske, Jakob Ackeret, Wallace D. Hayes, Owen Maynard, Geoff Willis, Loic Bigois, Harry Garner, Hermann Glauert, Nicholas Tombazis, Anatol Roshko, Ben Agathangelou, George W. Lewis, Pavel Bene, Miroslav Hajn, Georges Abrial, Antonia Terzi, Hino Kumazo, Gertrude Rogallo. Excerpt: The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 - January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 - May 30, 1912), were two Americans credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903. In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible. The brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of three-axis control, which enabled the pilot to steer the aircraft effectively and to maintain its equilibrium. This method became standard and remains standard on fixed-wing aircraft of all kinds. Fr...
Aerodynamicists: Wright Brothers, George Cayley, Gerald Bull, Kelly Johnson, Frederick W. Lanchester, Qian Xuesen, Theodore Theodorsen