Everything about Aeronautics totally explained
Aeronautics is the
science involved with the study, design, and manufacture of
flight-capable machines, or the techniques of operating
aircraft. While the term—literally meaning "sailing the air"—originally referred solely to the science of
operating the aircraft, it has since been expanded to include technology, business and other aspects related to aircraft.
One of the significant parts in aeronautics is a branch of
physical science called
aerodynamics, which deals with the motion of
air and the way that it interacts with objects in motion, such as an aircraft.
Aviation is a term sometimes used interchangeably with aeronautics, although "aeronautics" includes lighter-than-air craft such as
airships, while "aviation" does not.
Early aeronautics
Before scientific investigation of aeronautics started, people started thinking of ways to fly. In a Greek legend,
Icarus and his father
Daedalus built wings of feathers and wax and flew out of a prison. Icarus flew too close to the sun, the wax melted, and he fell in the sea and drowned. When people started to scientifically study how to fly, people began to understand the basics of air and aerodynamics. One of the earliest scientists to study aeronautics was
Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo studied the flight of birds in developing engineering schematics for some of the earliest flying machines in the late fifteenth century AD. His schematics, however, such as the ornithopter ultimately failed as practical aircraft. The flapping machines that he designed were either too small to generate sufficient lift, or too heavy for a human to operate. Although the ornithopter continues to be of interest to hobbyists, it was replaced by the glider in the 19th century.
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