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- Season 1 Preview
- Season 1 The Laws of Fluid Motion
- Season 1 The History of Early Flight
- Season 1 The Discovery of Dynamic Lift
- Season 1 Stability and Control
- Season 1 Propulsion
- Season 1 The Problem of Drag
- Season 1 The Induced Drag
- Season 1 Different Aircraft Systems
- Season 1 Lift Theory and High Lift Devices
- Season 1 The Story of the Vortex
- Season 1 Flight of Nature
- Season 1 Modern Problems of Flight
The Secret of Flight - Season 1 Episode 3 The History of Early Flight
0.00 29 minutes Dr. Lippisch's theme is the historical development of the flying machine. He begins his lecture with a short demonstration of Penaud's model. He shows how the invention of the cambered wing led to the first man-carrying aircraft, the glider. The next problem, the problem of control, was not conceived until the Wright Brothers began their pioneering glider experiments in Kitty Hawk, and Dr. Lippisch shows a scale model of their last (1902) glider and its control arrangement is demonstrated. As he shows film clips of the Wright Brothers' airplane, he explains the function of this first power aircraft.
