Although the inventor of the plane is not known exactly, all theories attribute it to the Wright

brothers, Wilbur and Oliver, who developed the first plane at the beginning of the 20th
century, we refer to the first functional plane, which thanks to an external catapult flew on
December 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and was called Flyer. This was the first
successful flight.

The flayer was a wooden plane, fabric without any kind of waterproofing or sealing, and an
aluminum engine. The Flyer measured 12.3 meters from the tip of one wing to the other and
6.4 meters from head to tail. Its total weight was 341 kilograms.

They came up with a few solutions that were crucial for later designs. The main one was the
turning system based on varying the inclination of the wings to rotate the plane in the
longitudinal axis. Today this is done by means of ailerons, but in Flyer 1 the wings were
manually inclined by means of pulleys.

But not everything is thanks to the Wright brothers, we have to deepen time before them.

Leonardo Da Vinci appears in this story, as the first known aircraft design is a drawing of
him in the fifteenth century, but there is no evidence that he took flight.

Several of these prototypes are known from 1803 to one capable of carrying passengers in
1853, but it was still not an airplane.

In 1883 there are records of the first flight on a glider without an engine that was commanded
by John Joseph Montgomery. Otto Lilienthal, Percy Pilcher and Octave Chanute.

4. Turbophones : After the end of the Second World War, commercial aviation
developed independently of military aviation. Aircraft companies began to create models
specially designed for passenger transport, and during the first years after the war, airlines
used military aircraft modified for civil use.

5. Wide-body aircraft : Wide-body aircraft are commercial aircraft that have three rows
of seats separated by two aisles. They were created to provide more comfort to passengers,
and to facilitate their mobility and that of the crew through the aircraft.

US

- The transport of people either over short (national), medium (within the same continent) or
long (intercontinental) distances. They can be civilians, military, governors.
- As well as it transports people it also carries out it with loads and also transport of animals.
- In the military area it allows reconnaissance of enemy terrain, disembarkation from the air
of troops and bombing missions.
- In the safeguard area it is used in maritime rescues (shipwrecks).
- They are currently used in various aerial competitions.
- Some have water cargo gondolas to fight forest fires.