The first unmanned aircraft model was developed by an Englishman named Stringfellow in 1850, based upon the work done by his compatriots Cayley and Henson. The concept of aviation was invented by Frenchman Gabriel Landelle in 1863. George Cayley (1773-1857), an English farmer, had the insight to realize that man can never fly like birds and leaned more towards the development of a kind of kite.
[...] It was the "Heinkel HE-178, equipped with a jet engine, and the first flight lasted 10 minutes. The retractable landing gear was proposed on the plane, in 1876, by Alphonse Penaud and Paul Gauchot. But the actual retractable landing gear was not made until 1911 by the German Wiencziers, on his own monoplane. The joystick, to facilitate the piloting of aircraft was a French invention by Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881-1957) in 1905. He built a monoplane with metal fins and elevator, controlled by a single lever. [...]
[...] The first test took place with a dummy over Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris. The first man to be ejected was Bernard Lynch, who jumped on 26 June 1946 from a "Meteor" flying at 500 km / h and 2500m. The first ejection at supersonic speed was that of George Smith for a "Super Sabre F 100" on February Even astronauts have benefited from this invention, since the American spaceship Gemini was equipped with ejection seats. (They did not have to use them). The first Soviet spacecraft, [...]
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