Aerospace Engineering

Aerospace Engineering has paved the way for most of modern day

technologies; it has contributed to the development of stealth, reconnaissance, and

commercial aircraft, its made revolutionary breakthroughs in both fighter jet and

rocket designs including pilot/passenger safety, forever changing the outlook of

travel and modern warfare and travel. One might say; what is Aerospace

engineering? Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the

design, development, and production of aircraft or related systems such as rockets,

spacecraft and missiles; and is closely tied to aeronautical engineering and

astronautical engineering (Aerospace Engineering).

Aerospace engineering all began with the planning and testing of the first

gliders and “flying machines”, the most famous of the early aerospace engineers are

Orville and Wilbur Wright. Orville and Wilbur Wright were two ordinary men with a

dream, their dream was to fly. The brother’s fascination with flight all started with a

fixation over a rubber band powered flying toy that they received as a gift from

their father Milton Wright (“First Flight”). The brother’s weren’t educated enough to

become scientists like most others who were trying achieve flight at the time,

however they learned from their observations as well as the mistakes of others to

create the world’s first successful airplane. In their observations the Wrights

discovered the balanced lift-to-drag ratio to achieve flight. The principle is rather

simple in order to achieve flight there has to be a source of thrust or a sufficient

amount of force that will cause the object to move, once thrust is acquires the air

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broadens its horizons into a newer technological age.

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