The idea of flight can best be described as no less than a phenomenon. Throughout history, crude designs and even attempts were put forth to bring human closer to the sun. Eventually this dream was realized in the early twentieth century. In the 1500's Leonardo da Vinci studied birds and their flight in order to design a way to enable humans to fly. In nineteenth century England, Cayley makes the first practical attempts to fly using large glider models of planes. In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright conduct the first actual flight from the ground using engine power in Kitty Hawk, N. C. These events paved the way (satirically put) for numerous improvements to be made.
Generally speaking and contrary to popular belief, airplanes don't float on the air, they're sucked up into it. This reason is known as Bernoulli's Principle. It says: "...as air travels faster [than surrounding air] across a surface, the air pressure against it is reduced...". By curving the top of an airplane's......
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